50 Miss G. Ricaido on the Asilidse. 



Machmus indianus, ,^ ? , sp. n. 



Tvpe (male) from near Blio\yali (Kumaon), 5700 feet, 

 July 1909. 



Tvpe (female) from Sham Ket, near Bhowali, 15. 5. 1912. 

 Other specimens from Dharmoti, 5300 feet; Bhim Tai ; 

 Takula ; Airades; Chaubatria; Sat Tal ; all localities in 

 Kumaon. May and June 1912. 



One male from Thundiani, W. Himalayas, 9000 feet, 

 4. 7. 1907 {Major H. A. Morga)'th),.l907, 273. 



Two females and one male from Mussooree, U.P. 

 (T. E. Middleton), 1911, 418. 



A rather large black species with white bands on the 

 abdomen. Moustache white. Fore femora with usually 

 three bristles below. Wings shaded at apex, on fore border, 

 and on posterior border, leaving only the centre of wing 

 clear. 



Length, S 19-23, ? 19-22 mm. 



Male. — Face covered with yellowish-grey tomentum ; the 

 tubercle large, blackish, covered by the long, strong, yellow 

 bristles which form the moustache, with two black bristles 

 below on each side. Palpi black, with black hairs. Beard 

 white and thick ; the hairs round head white, becoming 

 bristles posteriorly. Antenncs blackish, the first two joints 

 with black hairs, the third with a style two-thirds of its own 

 length. Forehead with yellow short hairs on each side. 

 Postocular bristles stout and black, curved forwards. Collar 

 Avith chiefly yellow bristles. Thorax yellowish brown, the 

 median stripe dark brown, with a very narrow pale line 

 dividing it anteriorly. Prsesutural bristles three, supra-alar 

 two, postalar two, sometimes three, all xery strong black ones; 

 dorso-central bristles about ten. Dorsum covered with very 

 small, black, appressed bristles, a few long black hairs between 

 the dorso-central bristles. Scutellum same colour as thorax, 

 with yellowish pubescence and four very strong marginal 

 bristles turned upwards. Abdomen yellowish grey, with dark 

 blackish-brown square spots on each segment, so that the 

 abdomen viewed generally appears blackish, with the seg- 

 mentations whitish yellow ; the first segment is armed with 

 numerous black bristles of different sizes, on the sides with 

 yellowish ones, which are also present on the sides of most 

 of the segments, advancing towards the centre of dorsum on 

 the anterior segments; short yellowish hairs are intermingled 

 M'ith these and continued above the hind margins of seg- 

 ments ; underside with long weak white hairs ; genital organs 

 large, black, with short yellowish pubescence; the eighth 



