54 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidre. 



upper border at sides, below only black bristly hairs are 

 present ; posterior femora with four black bristles below, 

 two at the apex, and four on the upper border, all bristles 

 on the legs are black ; tiie fore tibije with a regular row of 

 black bristles all the same size above and some soft hairs 

 intermixed, other stronger bristles below; fore tibite and 

 tarsi, also the posterior tibise and tarsi, clothed below with 

 short rufous pubescence. Winr/s clear, shaded brown on the 

 fore border, at apex, and in the centre of the cells on tlie 

 posterior border. 



Female is similar. Ovipositor black, barely the length of 

 the last two segments. 



Machimus parvus, S ? , sp. n. 



Type (male) and four other males. 



Type (female) and three other females, all from Kotagiri, 

 6000 feet, Nilgherri Hills (F. M. Cragg). INIales and females 

 from Trincomalee, Dambula, Ceylon (Yerbwy) ; and from 

 Horaweputoite, Mabaganay, and Kenaratyodes, Ceylon ; one 

 female from Biserat, Siam {H. C. Robinson and N. Annandale) , 

 1910, 21. 



A small species distinguished by the bright red genitalia 

 of the male, and in both sexes by the bristles on the 

 abdomen being almost entirely black, and by the absence 

 of any real bristles on the fore femora. Abdomen black 

 with vellowish segmentations. Legs black. 

 Leiigth, S 9-10, ? 10-11 mm. 



Male. — Face with yellowish tomentum; tubei'cle very large, 

 covered with stout black bristles and a few white weak 

 bristles ajjpearing below, all comprising the moustache. 

 Pulpi black with black hairs. Beard yellowish. Forehead 

 with black hairs. Antennce blackish brown, the style of third 

 joint barely more than half the length of joint. Postocular 

 bristle black. Thorax greyish with blackish-brown stripes, 

 the median divided by a fine line anteriorly. Praesutural 

 bristles two in number, supra-alar two, postalar two; dorso- 

 ccntral bristles about twelve, in two rows extending beyond 

 the sutuie ; dorsum of thorax with short black hairs. 

 Scutellum with four very long bristles. Abdomen greyish, 

 the first segment blackish, the second and third segments 

 each with a large black spot having only the anterior and 

 posterior borders grey, the fourth and fifth with similar 

 spots, but only the posterior borders greyish, the remaining 

 segments chiefly grey ; all the bristles and hairs on sides 

 black; genitalia large, bright red, shining, with some black 



