C4: Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidj^.' 



short ; the mirldle femora with three or four yellow bris^^^les 

 above and six or so below, pubescence of short bUick hairs, 

 the posterior pair with more numerous yellow bristles above 

 and below; the fore ti'oise with yellow bristles on each side 

 and short black haiis; the middle tibiae with the same, but 

 two on the underside are longer and stouter^ and those 

 on the hind pair are stout and numerous ; the taisi with 

 numerous black bristles, some yellow ones on the first three 

 joints of the front and middle tarsi. IVinffs (absent). 

 Genitalia very short and stout, black. 



Female is identical, the wliite hairs of moustache largely 

 replaced by black bristles. Thorax v.'ith the same number 

 of bristles, though only three praesutural bristles seem pre- 

 sent, two or three of them being yellow; on the other female 

 some of the alar bristles are yellow. Abdomen rather 

 blacker, the ovipositor including the sixth and seventh seg- 

 ments is long, more than half the length of the other 

 segments touether. The bristles on the underside of fore 

 femora are largely black, on the tibiaj black and yellow, on 

 the tarsi chiefly black. Wings clear, very faintly shaded at 

 apex and on posterior border, the small transverse vein this 

 side of the middle of the discal cell. 



Neoitamus niyrinus, S ? 5 sp. n. 



Type (male) aiid type (female), from Cape Engano, JNortli 

 Luzon (/. IVhitehead), 98, 2u7. 



This handsome species must be allied to Wulp's species, 

 N. spinicauda and melanopygiis, both from Celebes. It is 

 deep black, the male with silvery-white tufts of hair on tlie 

 last two segments of abdomen, and the female has a reddish- 

 yellow ovipositor. 



Length, S 20, ? 22 mm. 



Male. — Face black with golden-yellow, tomentum chiefly 

 on its lower part. Moustache golden yellow below, black 

 above. PaljA black with black hairs. Antennoe blackish, 

 the third joint dull rufous. Forehead with black hairs; at 

 vertex black bristles round the head continued as yellow 

 hairs to the proboscis. Thorax black with traces of three 

 grey tomentose stripes, sides with a dull yellow tomentose 

 stripe. Prresutural bristles two in number, (?) one supra- 

 alar bristle, three postalar bristles, and very many black 

 long hairs represent the dorso-central bristles. Scutellum 

 black with black hairs and four or more black bristles on its 

 posterior border. Abdomen deep black with black pubescence, 

 which is tiiick at the sides and on the segmentation; the 



