234 Miss G. Hiciudo on the AsiliJai. 



a male present in the Brit. Mns. Coll. is mentioned in 

 Suppl. vii. as from China {/jresented bij T. Lay, Esq.), but no 

 rie^(•riptioll of it is given ; another male is from China 

 (Walker Coll.), 92, 190, and females from N. China, 51, 14, 

 and Fooehow, China, 91, 100. 



A speeies distinguished by yellow bands on the abdomen, 

 by tlie red tiljiae, and by the white tuft of hairs on the 

 genitalia. Monstaehe vellow. Palpi with yellow hairs. 



Length, ? 2,2-24, c? 24-26. 



Female. — Face covered with the soft yellow hairs of mous- 

 tache. Heard yellow. Anttn/ifE blaekish. Thorax blackish 

 with yellow toinentuni as stiipesand at the sides. Scutellum 

 covered with yellow hairs and with one or two black bristles. 

 Abdomen with a deep black spot on each segment, bordered 

 M'ith a grey toraentuni, band extending to the sides, both 

 covered with short yellow hairs, the pubescence on the black 

 spots chiefly short, yellow. Ovipositor composed of the last 

 segment blue-black, shining. Legs black, tibiae red. Wings 

 clear, veins yellow. 



Male identical. Scutelhim with many more black bristles. 

 Genitalia with a tuft of w liite hairs, the upper forceps short, 

 club-shaped, the lower pair short, the under pair produced, 

 all with long black pubescence. 



Promachns leucopygus, Wlk. 

 Tran.9. Ent. Soc. Load. n. ser. iv. p. 129 \^Tru2)anea'\ (1857). 



Type (male) from China (Saunders Coll.), G8, 4. 



A species nearly allied to Promachns anicius, \\\\<., but 

 distinguished by the hind tibite only being yellowish. 



JiCugth 10 nun. 



The vellow hairs on the scutellitm are very bushv. and are 

 also very thick on the hind part of the thorax. Abdomen 

 Mith the first three segments bordered with numerous vellow 

 hairs, the remaining segments with black hairs. Genitalia 

 with a thick white tuft of hairs nearly concealing them ; they 

 ai'e small and short. Tibi;e (hind pair) arc said by A\'alkcr 

 to be testaceous with black apices, the rest of the legs pre- 

 sumably black. In this type the fore pair are black, the 

 middle pair arc wanting. 



Promachns yesonicus. Bigot. 



Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (6) vii., Bull. 79, 3 (1887). 



Proimchns ater, Ooquillet, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mas. x.vi. p. 37 (1898). 



A male from Japan {G. Lewis), 1910,320 ; another from 



