Miss G. Ricarilo oti the A<ilicla3. 231 



Promachus addens, A\ Ik. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond-.u, t. 280 (1861) [Trupunen'l 

 Promachus gilohnus, Walker, /. c. vi. p. 7 (18G2) [Tnipaned]. 



Type (addens), a female from Batcliian. 



Type ((/ilohuKs), a female from Gilolo, and a male witli 

 the uame of inacera from the Eastern Archipelago. 



Both Walker's species appear to be identical, they are dis- 

 tinguished from V. d, Wulp's P. fe/itius hy all the tibiae being 

 reddish; in his species only the anterior })air are thus coloured. 

 A small slender blackish species with a black moustache. 

 Abdomen with grey segmentations. Wings yi\t\\ dark brown 

 veins. 



Length, (^ ? , 10 mm. 



Females with glistening yellow tomentum. Moustache 

 of long stout black bristles, a very few white fine hairs are 

 visible below. Palpi with black hairs. Anteimce blackish, 

 the first two joints with black hairs, third joint as long as 

 the first joint ; the arista long. Forehead with black hairs. 

 Thorax with distinct double median and side stripes. Bcu- 

 tellum with double row black bristles and a few short white 

 hairs. Pubsscence on abdomen black, white on segmenta- 

 tions and at sides. Ovipositor long, composed of the last 

 four segments. Leys black, tibise dull red with black apices, 

 pubescence of legs chiefly white. Wings clear, with one 

 dark streak. 



Male is identical. Genitalia small, but upper forceps 

 stout, club-shaped, lower ones very small, both with black 

 hairs. 



Promachus comjjlens, Wlk. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. London, v. p. 236 [Trttpnnea^ (1861) ; Ost.-Sack. 

 Ann, Mu3. Civ. Geiiova, xvi. p. 424 (1«82) ;" de Meijere, Tijd. v. 

 Ent. Iviii. p. 113 (191o) ; id. Nova Guinea, ix. p. 335 (1913). 



Types (male and female) from Dorey, New Guinea 

 {A. R. Wallace^. 



This species, Promachus contradicens (including P. inter- 

 punens, from Australia), Promachus noninterponens, Ricardo, 

 and Promachus raptor, Austen, form a group of ueaily 

 iJlied species, only distinguished by the colouring of the 

 femora and by slight differences iu the genitalia. They 

 are large species, the females with broad bodies and very 

 long ovipositors, Ijoth sexes with blackish abdomens and 

 narrow yellow or goldcu-yellow segmentations. 



