232 Miss G. Ricardo 07i (he Asilklie. 



This species measures, J 16, ? 21 mm. 



M(Mistaclie in the male black and yellow, in tlie female 

 entirely hluck. 



Ma/c. — Abdomen -with yellow-haired segmentations and 

 black spots, pubescence yellow. Genitalia with very large 

 stout up[)er forceps, armed at apices with black hairs; lower 

 forceps not distinct, a wrinkled black triangular piece 

 proceeds from the underside of the last segment. Ler/s 

 reddish yellow ; the femora black on their upper sides, the 

 hind pair chiefly black. Tit)iie the satne colour, only the 

 hind pair black at apices; all tarsi black, the pubescence on 

 legs is chiefly yellow and short, longer on the underside of 

 tibire, with long l)lack hairs on the underside of femora; 

 some short black pubescence is intermixed with the yellow 

 pubescence. IVings with the small transverse vein below 

 the middle of the discal cell. 



Osten-Sacken records a female from Moral, New Guinea. 



Dc Meijere records the species from Zoutbron and Hol- 

 landia, near Humboldt Bay in North New Guinea, and from 

 Etna Bay, Dutch New Guinea (South). 



Me describes these last specimens as measuring 23 ram,, 

 and speaks of the fore femora only as being red at the apex 

 below. 



I'roinac/itts raptor, Austen. 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. London, xx. pt. 1;3, p. 402 (191 r,). 



A species nearly allied to Promachus complens, Walker, 

 but distinguished from it by the colouring of the femora, 

 which are chiefly black, only the middle pair partly reddish, 

 and by the almost bushy yellow hairs on the al;domen and 

 scutellum, which last chanictt;r serves to distinguish it from 

 the other allied species. 



From Dutch New Guinea. 



Promachus nomuterpunens, Ricardo. 



Vromachus intcrpoiuns, Walker, see Kicardo, Ann. & Mng. Nat. Ilist. 

 (H; xi. p. 414 (U>iy), in parte. 



Type (male^ and type (female) from N.E. Queensland 

 (C. M. Kelsali) (lUlO). 



In the above publication on the Asilidrc of Australia, I 

 j)laced this pair under Promachus i/iter/jonens, Wlk., now 

 the same as P. comjj/ens, M Ik., but find this was an error 

 and that tliey are a distinct species, the colouring of the 

 feiuuiu bciug black above, but red below, and the yenitalia 



