68 Miss G. Ric;\ivlo on the AslliJse. 



indistinct black stripe, all the bristles on lej^s are black, very 

 uniuerous on the tarsi ; femora almost bare, the posterior 

 pair M'ith a few. Wings pale brownish, clearer at the base, 

 and often with clear kernels in the cells ; the small trans- 

 verse vein beyond the middle of the discal cell. 



Female identical; the ovipositor long, including the sixth 

 and seventh segments. 



Neoitanius siamensis, <^ ? , sp. n. 



Type (male) from Biserat, Siam, 9. 8. 1901 {H. C. 

 Robinson and N. Annanda/e), 1916, 21. 



Type (female) from K. Mabek, Siam, 13. 7. 1901. 



Another male and female from Biserat. 



Another male from Sungkie, Siam, 10. 2. 1902; all by the 

 same collector, 1916, 21. 



Another female from Yon Boi, Hainan, 5. 6. 01 ; 1911, 

 288. 



A small black species Avith wide grey segmentation on lie 

 abdomen. Antennae and legs black, the tibiae partly chamois- 

 yellow in colour. 



Length, cJ 15, ? 17 mm. 



Male. — Face blackish covered with grey tomen turn ; the 

 tubercle distinct. jNIonstache consists of chiefly white 

 bristles, two or three black ones intermixed. Palpi black 

 ■nith yellow hairs. Antenna blackish, the first two joints 

 •with bristly black hairs. Forehead with the same ; at vertex 

 head \\ith some strong black bristles, white hairs continued 

 round head. Thorax blackish with grey tomentum, leaving 

 the median black stripe distinct, narrowly divided, and three 

 greenish-black spots at sides, the posterior one very small ; 

 pubescence on dorsum black. Pr?esutural bristles black, 

 two in number; three su[)ra-alar bristles, and two postalar 

 bristles; the dorso-central bristles represented by weak, 

 bristly, black hairs, some very long. Scutellum covered Avith 

 grey tomentum, and with white hairs, and two stout black 

 bristles on its posterior border. Abdomen with the dark 

 spots deep black, becoming brownish at sides; the grey 

 segmentations are continued up the sides, becoming more 

 gohlen yellow at base of segments ; pubescence short and 

 black on the dark spots, whitish and long on the segmenta- 

 tions and at sides. Genitalia stout and complicated, black 

 Avith black pubescence, and some reddish hairs on the upper 

 piece. Legs blackish; the tibiae pale reddish yellow on their 

 outer sides ; fore femora with no bristles, but with some 

 scattered white hairs, the middle pair the same, but the 



