22G Miss G. Ricaido on the A^ili<1a?. 



Prumachiis chinensis, S ? , sp. n. 



Type (male), type (female), and another male from Tingliac, 

 Cliilui {South), June 1899 {P. de la Garde), 1906, 89. 



A robust reddish-yellow species ; the legs reddish. Abdo- 

 men blackish, with yellow-haired broad bauds, ^Moustache 

 and hairs of palpi yellow. 



Length, (^ 25-30, ? 32 mm. 



Male. — Face covered with veilow tomentum, the vellow 

 hairs reach the antenna?, which are blackish, with yellow and 

 some black hairs on the first two joints. Forehead witii 

 yellow hairs and some black bristles. Thorax brownish 

 with a broad median black stripe, with a yellow tomentose 

 border and with yellow tomentum at sides and on ))osterior 

 part ; pubescence of short black hairs, many rather like 

 bristles, and the hairs are longer posteriorly. Scutellum 

 with fine vellow bristles, one or two black bristles are 

 present. Abdomen blackish, but all the segments, except the 

 first three at their bases, are covered with dense yellow 

 pubescence and yellow hairs, which last are thickest on 

 the second segment and are present on sides of abdomen. 

 Genitalia black, large, the upper forceps very stout, the 

 lower pair vei-y short, both covered with bright yellow hairs 

 and some black hairs at base of upper forceps. Legs reddish 

 yellow, tiie knees black, the uppersides of femora with a 

 short black stripe ; pubescence of legs yellow, fi'ings large, 

 with yellowish veins. 



Female identical. The yellow pubescence on abdomen 

 not quite so thick. Ovipositor short, composed of the last 

 segment. 



Promachus calorijlcus, "Wlk. 



J'roc. Linn. Soc. London, iv. p. 107 [Trupanea] (18G0). 

 J'roitiochus coiico/or, Wlk. /. c. v. p. 2oi) [Trupanea'] (1861). 

 rrotnachus alhicmula, v. d. Wulp, Tijd. v. Eiit. (2) vii. (xv.) p. 228, 

 pi. xi. tigs. 12-14 (1872); id. xli. p.* 133 (1898). 



Type (male and female) from Makcssar, Celebes. 



Type (male) from Celebes {concolo)-). 



V. d. \Vulp described his species also from Celebes. 



A stout blackish species with reddish legs. Genitalia with 

 snowy-white large tuft of hairs above. If'iiif/s with a broad 

 dark streak in submarginal cell. Moustache yellow, witii 

 some black bristles above. Palpi in male with black hairs; 

 V. (1. AVulp says in the female they are blnck and yellow. 



