SoutJi Afn'riii (lud Orientiil Asiliiijo. 43 



Mttle.—r-f\it'e yt'llowisli brown covered with yellow toiin-n- 

 <imi. Mouslaclie com|ios(!il of s(ion<^ yellow ;iiul black 

 bristles, the latter siinoiiiuliii;; the oral o|)eiiin;r ; weaker 

 Vfllow liair.s are contimu'd up the- centre, ami ;i row of black 

 .short bristles extends on <':ieh side to the antenn.'U, which are 

 red oji the first two joints, with strong black hairs, the third 

 joint l)lackish. I'alju black, with pale hairs. Beard white. 

 Forr/iead with some weak yellow hairs and a few black ones. 

 Hind part of head with stron^; black bristles. Thorax 

 yellowish brown, paler at the sides, with the usual stripes 

 dark and distinct ; pubescence on dorsum chietly short, black, 

 all brislles black. Scutellum with two black bristles and 

 chietly black hairs. Abdomen with the usual spots large, 

 black, the side ones also blackish; bristles at sides black; 

 pubescence black and white on dorsum, very short. Qeuitalia 

 short, stout, black, witli white hairs. Leys with chietly 

 black brislles, the femora almost entirely black except at the 

 extreme base and at apices ; tibiiw red on their basal half and 

 black beyond ; tarsi reddish, black at the joints, pubescence 

 white ant! thick, though short; the fore femora below with 

 weak bristly black and yellow hairs; fore tibiai with at least 

 two long Idack bristles on the outer side and some long weak 

 bristly yellow hairs ; the fore tarsi with occasional white 

 bristles below. Wings not so long as the abdomen. 



Female identical; the two long bristles on the fore tibiae 

 are usually yellow, and those on the outside of tiie tarsi also 

 yellow. 



Anacitiaces giga-f, ? , Enderlein. 

 Zool. Auz. xliv. (3, p. 2o7 (1914). 



One female (incomplete) from Chauntubun, Siam [Mouhot). 



Though this specimen is very much mutilated, it appears 

 to be a specimen of the above sj)ecies recorded from Sumatra 

 (one female). The genus was (bunded by the author for this 

 species, taking the place of the genus Erax in lids region, 

 distinguished from it by the very short ovipositor in the 

 female. 



It is a large insect, the abdomen covered with golden- 

 yellow short pubescence. Legs entirely black. 



Lenffih 28 mm. 



Proctacanthus pe7iullimusy Walker 



Dipt. Saund. i. p. 134 (1851), et i.ist ; 

 [^Asiltis]. 



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



Dipt. Saund. i. p. 134 (1851), et List Dipt, vii., Suppl. .'5. p. 7'2t) ( 180,5) 

 [^Asiltis]. 



