South African and Orientnl Asiliiiaj. 187 



Philodicus ruhritarsatm, Macq. Dipt. Exot. i. (2) p. 215 lTru2)anea] 



(1838). 

 VJiilodictis gobarps, Wlk. List Di»t. ii. p. 420 \_Asilus] (1838) ; et vii., 



Siippl. 3, p. G04 [Triqmieci] (1855). 

 Philodicus telifer, Wlk. Ins. fSaund., Dipt. i. p. 115 [rrupanea] (1851); 



et List Dipt, vii., Suppl. 3, p. GOB [7'ny;fl«m] (1855). 

 Philodicus sayittifei; Wlk. Ins. Sauud., Dipt. i. p. 116 \^Trupanea] 



(1851); et Li.'^it Dipt, vii., Siippl. 3, p. m(i {rrupanen] (1855). 

 Philodicus innotabilis, Wlk. List Dipt, vii., Suppl. 3, p. 604 [_Trupanea\ 



(1855). 

 Philodicus conJinis,yV\\<i. List Dipt, vii., Suppl. 3, p. 606 \_Trupanea\ 



(1855). 

 Philodicus melanurus, Dol. Natur. Tvd. Nederland Ind. n. ser. vii. (x.) 



p. 408, p]. vi. fig, 2 [Asilus] (1856). 

 Philodicus inserens, Wlk. Proc. Linn. Soc. London, i. p. 116 [Trupanea] 



(1857). 



Tlie tj'pe of gohares is a female from Silliet. 



The type of telifer is a female from East India. 



The type of sayittifer is a female with another male and 

 female from East India (Walker Coll.). 



The type of rimotabiUs is a female with two males and one 

 female from Java and Snmatra. 



The ty[)e of conf.nis is a male from Java. 



The types of inserens are male and female from Sarawak ; 

 these are rather small, only measuring 18 mm., whereas the 

 usual length is 20-22 mm., though v. d. Wulp mentions 

 some he had from Java as only l-l mm. long. 



The species described by Macquart as Trupanea fuscus, 

 Dipt. Exot. i. p. 220, from Bengal, is very probably another 

 synonym of this species, but the description is too meagie 

 to identify the type without seeing it. Schiuer records it 

 from Batavia in Novara Keise, Dipt. p. 178. 



Besides the Walker types there are specimens in the Brit. 

 Mus. Coll. from Java, Johore, Khasi Hills, Assam, and 

 Kungra Valley, N. India. In the Imms Coll. are specimens 

 from Kumaon, N. India. 



This species is said by v. d. Wulp to be common in the 

 East Indies, and evidently has a wide range ; it has already 

 been recorded from Java, Sumatra, and Borneo, and appears 

 to reach India and Assam. 



A robust species ; the moustache not black, as stated by 

 Wiedemann, but yellow with a few black bristles near the 

 oral opening, as stated by v. d. Wulp. 



Legs black ; the anterior legs with the femora and tibiie 

 reddish below and on the outside; the posterior tibiio red y>n 

 the upperside; tlie biistles chiefly black, a few white ones 

 occasionally, usually one long one on the fore tibiae on out- 

 side ; fore femora below with three or more black bristles 



