Miss G. Ricardo on the AsUidre. 219 



Lengtii, ^ 35, $ 32-33 mm. 



Male. — Face covered with glistening yellow tomeiitnm. 

 Moustache composed of mauy large yellow bristles, and 

 shorter yellower hairs are continued to the antennae. Paljd 

 with yellow hairs and black hairs and bristles at the apices. 

 Antenna blackish, the first two joints with black and yellow 

 hairs. Forehead with black bristly hairs and some yellow 

 hairs. Hind part of head with yellow bristles in the centre 

 and below stout black bristles. Thorax brownish with 

 brown-yellow tomentuni and darker stripes ; pubescence 

 black, with black bristles posteriorly and some yellow hairs. 

 ScuteUum with a double row of black bristles and yellow 

 hairs inside. Abdomen black Mith broad grey tomentose 

 bands, the black being represented by the usual large spots ; 

 pubescence on the bands yellow, on the spots black. Geni- 

 talia with a small tuft of white hairs, the upper force[>s 

 more slender than those of P. fasciatiis, ending in a point, 

 the under pair very small ; the underside of the last segment 

 produced as a black almost square piece, very distinct, as 

 long as the under forceps and together with the rest of geni- 

 talia covered with black pubescence. Legs reddish yellow 

 Avith black bristles and chiefly short yellow pubescence. 

 Wings large, clear ; veins reddish yellow. 



Females identical. Ovipositor composed of the last seg- 

 ment, very short; black, shining, with black hairs and a few 

 lighter ones at apex. 



Promachus leoiiinus, Loew. 



Linn. Ent. iii. p. 404 (1848) ; Wlk. List Dipt. Brit. Mus. vii., Suppl. .*?, 

 p. rj^2\Tru}>anea'] (1855; ; Loew, Berlin, ent. Zeit. xii. p. 372 (18G8) ; 

 V. d. Wulp, Tijd. V. Ent. xli. p. 131, pi. iv. figs. 6^ (1898) ; et xlii. 

 p. 45 (1899). 



One male from S. Shan States, Upper Burmah, 4000 ft., 

 Nov. 1899 (Lt.-Col. Bingham), 1902, 31. 



One male and one female from Sikkim, 1903 (F. A. 

 Midler). Presented by lit.-Col. Bingham. 



A species originally described by Loew from the Greek 

 Inlands and Asia Minor, and recorded by him later from 

 ]\Iersina in Asia Minor. V. d. Wnlp recorded it from India. 



A species at once distinguished by the bright orange-red 

 pubescence on abdomen, and the same-coloured hairs on 

 scntellum and posterior part of thorax. Moustache and 

 j)ul)escence of forehead, beard, and hairs on paliii all bright 

 yellow. Legs black, the tibiae reddi-sh yellow. Genitalia of 

 male short, stout, covered vvitii a thick tuft of white hairs. 



Female with an extremely short ovipositor. 



Length, S 22, ? 18 mm. 



