52 Miss G. Ricardo on tJie Asilida?. 



pubescence and by the longer, more pointed eighth ventral 

 sej^ment. 



Machimus montanus, J ? , sp. n. 



Tvpe (male), type (female), and others from Kotagiri, 

 Nilghiri Hills, 6000 feet [F. M. Cragy). 



A small greyish spt^cies, very similar in appearance to the 

 European M. atricdpillus, but at once distinguished from it 

 by the eighth ventral segment, which is not two-horned. 

 Legs black with reddish stripes, all the bristles black. 



Length, S 13-14, ? 15 mm. 



Male. — Face coveied with greyish tomeutum; the tubercle 

 blackish, large, covered -with the black moustache, which is 

 composed of very stroug black bristles with weaker white 

 ones below. Palpi black, with black bristly hairs. Beard 

 and hairs round head white. The postocular bristles stout, 

 black, curved forwards. Forehead blackish in the centre, 

 greyish yellow at the sides with a few black hairs and two 

 or three white hairs. Ante>in(S blackish brown, with black 

 bristly hairs on the first two joints. Thorax yellowish 

 grey with the median blackish-brown stripe very distinct, 

 becomiug a little narrower posteriorly; sides with paler- 

 coloured, broad, interrupted stripes, not extending far beyond 

 the suture; dorsum of thorax with small black bristles; two 

 very strong priesutural bristles, two supra-alar, and three 

 postalar, all very strong ; the dorso-ccntral ones number 

 about twelve, with weaker ones iuterniixed, only two being 

 prsesutural. Scutelium yellowish grey, with some weak 

 yellow and black bristles and with four large black marginal 

 bristles curved forwards. Abdomen brownish grey or blackish 

 grey, the segmentations lighter; the dorsum covered with 

 very small, depressed, black bristles, and with longer yellow 

 hairs at the sides. Genitalia reddish, the claspers blackish 

 at apices; pubescence yellowish; the eighth ventral segment 

 produced, ending in a point with long black hairs which 

 extend to the sides, on its inside it is reddish yellow in 

 colour. 



//tT/s blackish; the femora reddish on their outer sides; 

 tibipe only black on their undersides; tarsi reddish, apices 

 black; femora and coxse with long white hairs, thickest on 

 the fore pair, the middle pair with four strong bristles in 

 the middle and two at their apices, the hind pair with three 

 near the apices and two or more nearer the base and others 

 beneath ; the tibise with numerous long black bristles and 

 with some weak yellowish hairs, which are long on the front 



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