jMis-S (J. Ric.'.rlo on (lis Asili'.ho. 59 



yrj, l.T) ; fn.ni Sikliini, Jmio 189"), 2000 feet (./. G. Pilcher), 

 97, 120; T:iuii.j;ii, 11, S9 ( Biiif;liain Coll.) J Hatiiij;tli:ir:iwr 

 Jlivcr, 'rciuissciiin, Ihiniiali, Feb. 1890 {Col. C. F. Binykam), 

 96, 282. 



All easily recop;nize(l sjiecies, not at all typical of the genus, 

 however; thorax and scufcl/nin c()\cvva\ with bri^iht reddish- 

 yellow tonuMitiiin ; the short black abdomen has some same- 

 coloured tufts of hairs ou the lirst segment, elsewhere the 

 pubescence is bbick ; the ovipositor including the sixth and 

 seventh segments is nearly as long as the rest of the 

 abdomen. Lrr/s reddi-;h yellow ; the base of femora and 

 knees black. IVinys large with yellow^ veins, shaded grey 

 at apex and narrowly so on the posterior border. 



Length 27 mm. 



Nt'oilamus longistijlus^ AVied. 



Ausszweifl, Ins. i. p. 433 [yiivY/w] (18231. For otliev referenco.s see 



lvertes7.'s Cat. 

 Itmiius Intro ^ Dol. 

 ? Asi/iis ferehiifiis, .Macq. 

 Ifcnnus iiivoliifiit. Wile. 

 Ifamns vormalis, "Wlk. 

 ItaniHs t/if)i/f/us, .Scliiner. 

 Iftimus ilentipat, Wulp. 

 Asilus vertehrutiis, Wulp. 



Wiedeman's sjjeeies was described from New Guinea and 

 the Indian Archipelago ; to tlie synonyms given by Kertesz 

 1 have added Walker's species involutus descrilied originally 

 from Termite, normalis from the same place, and dipyyhs, 

 Schiner, wliich was onl^v distinguished by him from inrolatus 

 by the colour of the tarsi, which were black in his species, 

 not red as in Walker's species, and the dark colour of the 

 wings was more diffused. 



Tliese are all apparently identical with Wiedemann's 

 species — or, at the utmost^ local varieties. 



There are specimens of the species in the Brit. jNTus. Coll. 

 from Ternate, New (Guinea (see Austen, Trans. Zool. Soc. 

 London, xx. (13) p. 405, 1915), Gilo!o, and Batjan ; also 

 fiom Nantauri, Central Group, Nicobar Islands ; Dinding, 

 Siam ; and Biserat, Siam — so that it appears to be a widely 

 diffu.sed species. 



A handsome large species with tufts of golden hairs 

 on the black abdomen. Male genitalia large and eoni- 

 l)licated, black with black hairs. Female ovipositor very 

 long, almost as long as the other segments together; it 

 includes the sixth and seventh segments. Legs are yellowish ; 



