]\Iis.s Cm. Kicavdo on the AsiliiUi'. 4r> 



^Moustache black. Lcj^s picoous. ^^'uI|) thought hi; wU-iiti- 

 lird this species amoiij^ specimens lioiii .lava ami says the 

 genitalia are hlac k. 



Asilus (Icfurwis, Walker, from Arahia, the type, a female, 

 is in the Brit. Mus. Coll., hut, as in the above it is inip()ssil)le 

 t) decide what genus it belongs to, it may possibly be 

 included in the genus Macltimus, and is certainly not in 

 Ajwc/ea, where it is placed in Kertcsz's Catalogue. 



Machimus chincnsis, (^ ? , sp. n. 



Type (male), dune 1891), and type (female), 1000, 89, 

 from Tinghac, China {P. de la Garde), and another male 

 and feiualc from the same locality. 



A large blackish species, covered with yellowish-grey 

 tomentum ; tihi:e and tarsi reddish. Moustache yellow, a 

 lew black hairs above. 



Length, S ~3, ? 28 mm. 



Male. — Face covered with yellow tomentum ; tubercle 

 large, darker ; moustache composed of yellow bristles and a 

 few black ones above and down the sides. Palpi black with 

 yellow hairs. AntenncB blackish, the first two joints with 

 black hairs, some being very stout bristles, the third joint is 

 as long as the first two joints together ; the arista not (piite 

 so long as the joint. Forehead with black bristly hairs. 

 Thorax covered with greyish-yellow^ tomentum and the usual 

 (lark stripes, the median one not divided, a dark rich brown 

 in colour, the side ones olive-coloured. Priesutural bristles 

 three, supra-alar bristles three, postalar bristles two, one is 

 yellow ; dorso-eentral bristles about ten in number ; ))ub<s- 

 cence on dorsum short, black, with some longer hairs 

 intermixed. Scutcllum with four black bristles on its margin. 

 Abdomen covered with yellowish-grey tomentum, with dark 

 brown large spots on each segment, the segmentations j^ali r : 

 sides with yellow bristles, continued on to the dorsum ; on 

 the segmentations ])ubescence consists of short, thick, a) - 

 ])ressed, fulvous hairs. Genitalia black, with chiefiy black 

 pubescence ; the eighth ventral segment is produced to a 

 j^hort point, clothed with chiefly yellow bristly hairs. J^^^'js 

 black ; tibiic and tarsi bright reddish yellow, a little darker 

 at the apices; fore femora with six bristles below, one near 

 apex and two at apex, the middle ones with five below and 

 two near apex, the hind ones with four below and two long 

 white ones at the extrcnie base, two black ones on the upper- 

 side, two near apex, and two at apex ; the pubescence on 

 (einora is short, yellowish, on tibiic and tarsi black. Wincjs 



