Miss (.1. Riciudo on the Asilidic. 61 



Neoitainus yrandis, ? , sp. ii. 



Tyiie (t't'UKilc) and tlirce other f'cinalos from Bliowali, 

 Kiu'iKioii, 570;) foct, July 11H)0 (J. D. Liuns). 



A species rather similar in appearance to Neoitamus lonyi- 

 stylus, Wlk., hut (lislin>;uishe{l at once by the hiack femora. 

 Ahduiiien brownish, densely covered with yellowish-^rL'y 

 tomentum and yellow pubrsecnee. Moustache yellow. Leys 

 I'cddi.^ij yellow ; f\;inora partly black. 

 Length about 22 mm. 



Face covered with j^reyish-yellow tomeiitnuj and with 

 some yellow hairs at sides; tubercle very larj;e, covered with 

 the moustache, which consists of lon^, yellowish-white, bristly 

 hairs. I'ulpi black with yellow hairs. Antaiine blackish, 

 the first two joints with black hairs. Forc/teud biighter- 

 eoloured than lace, with some black hairs. Beard yellowish 

 white, the ludrs round liead the same colour till they reach 

 the black occipital bristles. Thorax covered with yellowish 

 tomeutum (type is denuded) and with the usual brown 

 stripes, the me dan one large, not divi led. Prajsutural bristles 

 three, st(;ut, black; supra-alar bristles three, postalar bristles 

 four; dorso-central bristles about twelve in number, in tiie 

 tyi)e some of the bristles near wings are yellowish ; pubes- 

 cence on dorsum black. Scutellum with greyish-yellow 

 tomentnn) and four stout bristles on margin, yellow in the 

 type, bhick on the others; some long yellow hairs on dorsum. 

 Abdomen w ith the five first ^egments yellowisli ; the ovipositor 

 comp;jse(l of the last three segments is blackish. Ler/s reddish 

 yellow ; the fore femora with a broad black stripe on their 

 upperside in the type, in the other females wholly black; 

 iio bristles below, but one black one on the inner side at apex, 

 and long black bristly hairs at the base on underside, some 

 of these are almost as stout as bristles; middle tibiae iucras- 

 sate, with numerous black br, sties on their lower sides and 

 some yellow o.ies on their outer sides, two yellow ones near 

 apex, sometimes black; hind femora with two yellow ones 

 near apex, one black one inside near apex, and black bristly 

 hairs below ; the |)ul)escence on femora chiefly yellow ; tibiio 

 reddish yellow with black bristles and black pubescence, 

 some fulvous hairs below ; tarsi reddish, black at the apices, 

 with many black bristles. U'inys large, clear, veins reddish, 

 the sm;dl transverse vein at about the middle of the discal 

 cell. 



