190 Miss G. Ricardo on 



blarkisli, tlic second joint reddish, the first two joints witli 

 ])Ia('k bristles, tlie ari-ta \o\)^. Hind part of head with black 

 bristles, and a few weak white hairs below; white bristles 

 appear beyond the vertex. Beard white. Thorax brownish 

 with yellowish tomentum, the side-stri[)es small; pubescence 

 on dorsum black, the hairs posteriorly chiefly black. Scu- 

 tellum with two black bristles. Abdomen with the usual 

 spots and grey segmentations appearing brownish ; pubes- 

 cence black on the brown spots and whitish on the seg- 

 mentations; bristles at sides black with yellow ones below. 

 Genitalia short, reddish l)rown, with black hairs and some 

 whitish ones at apex; below a])pear long black hairs on the 

 small red-brown segment preceding the genitalia. Legs 

 blackish; the fore and middle tibiae almost wholly rufous- 

 coloured, the extreme apex of femora below reddish ; fore 

 femora practically unarmed, with soft white hnirs; pubes- 

 cence on legs dense, white, all bristles black. Wings clear 

 with grey apex and posterior border; veins reddish yellow. 



Female identical, the fore femora armed below with short 

 black bristles; bristles at sides of abdomen apparently all 

 yellow. Ovipositor black. 



Philodicus univentris, ^ , Walker. 



Ins. Saund., Dipt. i. p. 114 lTn(panea'] (1851); et List Dipt, rii., 

 Siippl. 3, p. 602 iTnipaned] (18o5j. 



Type (male) from India (Walker Coll.). 



A large robust species in very bad preservation. Legs 

 black with greyish-yellow tomentum ; fore femora armed 

 with stout black bristles ; all bristles on legs are black, 

 those on the abdomen chiefly white. Moustache yellow. 



Length 21 mm. 



Philodicus femoralis, <^ ? , sp. u. 



Type (male) from Okkyl, Schwegu, Burmah (C. F. C. 

 Beeson). 



Type (female) and another from Magaung, Myitkyina 

 District, Upper Burmah {Cupt. JThitmore, I. M.S.). Males 

 and females from Dehra Duu and N. Toungoo, Burmah. 



Length, S 17-18, ? 19-23 mm. 



A species distinguished from Philodicus ceijlonicus by 

 the white moustache with only two or three black bristles 

 near the oral opening and by the presence of some white 



