58 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidfe. 



contimierl round head ; ovipositor short, not including the 

 sixtli or seventh segments. Fore femora with not so many 

 yellow hairs below and with some darker ones intermingleil, 

 more l)ristle-like in tw6 of the specimens; the bristles ou 

 scutellum are more numerous. 



NeoitamuSj Ost.-Sack. 



Cat. Dipt. N. Araer. ed. 2, 82 & 235, 134 (1878). 

 Itamus, Loew, Linn. Ent. iv. 847 (1849). 



This genus is represented in the Oriental Region by tiie 

 following species : Neoitamus griseus, Wied ; Neuitamus 

 lonyistylus, philtis, Wlk. — the former of tliese two includes 

 six synonyms^ see below. 



Neoitamus jfivanensis, De Meijere ; Neoitamus spinicauda 

 and melanopijyus, V. d. Wulp. Of these only N. griseus and 

 N. philus are recorded from India and Ceylon. Nine new 

 species are here described from India and surrounding 

 districts, one from the Philij)piues, and one from Tientsin, 

 S. China. From the South African Region only Neoitamus 

 armatus, Becker, podaf/ricns, Bezzi. and N. sudalis, V. d. 

 Wulp from Arabia have been desctibed. Two new species 

 are now described. 



All the species are fairly typical of the genus, with the 

 exception of N, pulciier from Ceylon and N. phiius, ^Valker. 



Neoitamus gristus, Wied. 



Dipt. Exot p. 192 {Asilus] (1821); ^Vulp, Tijd. v. Eut. (2) vii. (xv.) 

 p. 246 [/te/«?«J (1872). For other references see Kertesz's Cat. 



This species has been redescribed by Wulp, but unfortu- 

 nately he does not speeily very accurately the bristles on 

 thorax and legs, and 1 have not been able to identify it with 

 certainty, though a series from Ceylon in the Brit. Mus. 

 Coll. may be this species, which is said to be about 20 mm. 

 long, the femora having a bhu k stiipe on their upper border, 

 otherwise they are reddish vellow. 



Neoitamus phiius y ? , Walker. 



List. Dipt. ii. p. 393 [Asilus^. (1849), et vii. Suppl. 3, p. 725 [Asilus] 

 (1855); V. d. Wulp, Tijd^ v. Ent. xli. p. 145 lltamus] (1898;, et 

 xlii. p. 55 [Itamus'] (1899). 



Type (female) from Silhet, 45, 107. 



Females from Khasi Hills, Assam (F. W. L. Slade7i), 

 purchased from Doncaster, 98, 202; from Khasi Hills, pur- 

 chased from E. Heyne, 97, 82 ; and collected by A. Chennell, 



