Miss (J. lliiardo on the Asili,l;u. t;9 



white liairs arc Ioiij^cm- and more iiiolined to he bristly, and 

 two Mack bristles are present on the ajicx, also present ou 

 the hind tibiio, which have an exlra black bristle on the uj)per- 

 sidc ; fore tibia; with Idack bristles and long black hairs 

 below, and a thick irinjje of short rufons hairs l)cIow ; tlic 

 middle pair the same with fewer bl.udv bristles and the long 

 liairs are white: hind tibi;t with black bristles and the frinffe 

 of rdfoiis hairs ou each side, and no lonj^ hairs below ; tlie 

 lirst joint of tarsi stout ami elou-^atc with many stout black 

 bristles ; some white pul)esrence on outer side and rufous 

 hairs below, ami sonie lonj^ black hairs; the other tarsi, 

 studded with black bristles and with some black pubescence. 

 Wings clear, shaded ou the a[)cx and posterior border, the 

 small transverse vein situated on apical third of the length 

 of (liscal cell. 



Female identical. Moustache with more black liairs. 

 Ovipositor is very long, including the sixth and seventh 

 segments, about as long as the four posterior segments 

 together. 



Neoitanius tropicus, c? ? j sp. n. 



Male (type) from Sat Tal, 9. 5. 191.2. 



Female (type) from Sham Ket, 16. 5. 1912 ; and another 

 from Bhowali, July 1909, 5700 feet — all from Imms Coll. 



A small species, very similar to t!ie European Neuitanins 

 cyaunrns, but ditfcriug in the bristles ou legs being largely 

 yellow, ami in the praisutiiral bristles being reddish yellow 

 or yellow and three in number. 



Length, S 10, ? 13-15 mm. 



Male. — Greyish black. Face covered with whitisli tomen- 

 tum ; the tubircle which takes up the greater part of the face 

 darker, covered by the dense dirty-white iiairs of the mous- 

 tache with some black bristle-like hair above them. Palpi 

 black with black haiis. Beard dirty white. Hairs round 

 head the same colour; postocidar bristles black. Antennce 

 blackish, the arista not so long as the third joint. Thorax 

 with the usual black stripes, the median one divided ; the 

 three prresutural bristles yellowish, two supra-alar bristles 

 usually black, two postalar (one black, one yellow) ; the dorso- 

 central bristles extend beyond tlie suture in two rows, all 

 black : pubescence on the dorsum black, white at the sides. 

 Scutcl/uni with four stout long bristles on its margin, and 

 white i)ubcseenee on the dorsum. Abdomen with the usual 

 large black sjjot on each segment and long white hairs on 

 the first segment, clsewliere short and white, sides with some 



