70 Miss G. rvicarJo on the Asllidae. 



wliite bristles and hairs. Genitalia small, stout, black with 

 black hairs above and some yellow below. Let/s black, the 

 knees of the femora and the tibife, except at their apices, 

 reddish yellow ; tarsi the same, blackish at the apices of the 

 joints; fore femora with two short yellow bristles above and 

 some below intermixed with yellow hairs, mnldlo femora the 

 same, hind femora with four above and four or more lon:^ 

 ones below, pubescence on all short and white ; ti!)iie with 

 only white bristles and chiefly yellowish pubescence ; fore 

 tarsi with some white bristles and black ones, the other pairs 

 with fewer white ones. JViii/i/s clear, shading- in apex hardly 

 visible, small transverse vein beyond the middle. 



Female identical. The fore femora have black bristles 

 below, and the fore tibife a long row on their uppersides. 

 Ovipositor, composed of the last three segments, black. 



Neoitamus tarsaJis, $ ? , sp. n. 



Male (tvpe) from Kandv, Ceylon, 28. 5. 92 (U.-Col. 

 Yerbury), \ii92, 122. 



Female (tvpe) from Bentota, Ceylon, 13. G. 91 (Lt.-Cof. 

 Yerbury), 1892, 122. 



Two males from Trineomalee, 10 miles Kandy Road, 

 same collector, 80. 5. 91 and 30. 8. 91. 



One male from Baduclla, Ceylon, 5. 6. 92, same collector. 



A species not unlike in general appearance N. pulcher, 

 sp. n., but at once distinguished by the broad first joint of 

 fore tarsi armtd with very stout bristles. Leys reddish 

 vellow ; femora largely black; ktiees and apices of tibiie and 

 the tarsi black. Antennce black. Abdomen black, w ith broad 

 grey segmentations. 



Length, (^ 18-19, ? 24 mm. with ovipositor. 



Mule. — Face covered with silky yellow tomentum and 

 liairs. ISIoustache on the not very prominent tubercle, 

 composed of whitish-yellow, long, weak bj'isClcs. Falpi hlack 

 with yellow haiis, in the ty|)e some black bristles are present 

 on the moustache. Antennce blackish, the first two joints 

 with black bristly hairs; the arista nearly double the length 

 of the third joint, which i-; tinged reddish brown and is a 

 little longer tluiu the first joint. Forehead with black bristly 

 hairs at the sides and on the central tubercle, hairs round 

 the head white, four or five very stout black biistles are 

 present each side of the frontal incision. Thorax covered 

 with yellowish tomentum and with a distinctly marked 

 median black stripe divided in the middle and two large 

 blackish spots on each side; dorsum covered Avith short 



