50 ]\Iiss G. llicardo on 



Afi/iis (htei mtvatus, ^, Walker. 



I'roc. l.iini. Soc. London, iv. p. 107 (1860). et v. p. 265 (1861) ; Ilicardo, 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vi. p. 449 (UH3). 



Type (male) from ]\Jakessar. 



The female type described by Walker is not to be found ; 

 from the description of the abdomen it may belong to iVeo- 

 itamu.i, in the group oi' j)hilus, Wlk. 



This male bus half tlie abdomen broken off; Walker gives 

 its length as 20-24 mm. 



AntentKB black. Moustache black and yellow. Paljri 

 yellow-haired. I'horax blackish, with well-marketl stripes. 

 Sciitellnm with four or more black bristles and white huii-s. 

 Ahdo))ien blackish, the first two segments with yellow tuft- 

 like hairs. Legs reddish yellow; femora black above; 

 tibise with black apices ; tarsi black ; pubescence on legs 

 golden-yellow, black on the dark ])arts; the fore and middle 

 tarsi stout, armed heavily with short black bristles. Wings 

 large, tinged yellow. 



Asilus introducens, $ , ^Valker, 



Proc. Linn. Soc. London, iv. p. 108 (1860), et vii. p. 232 (1864) ; IJi- 

 curdo, Ann. & Mag. ISat. Hist. (8) xi. p. 449 (1913). 



Type (female) from Makessar. 



?Type (male) from Waigiou. 



The female has tuft-like greyish-white hairs on the first 

 two segments of abdomen; the male has, in additioji, on tlie 

 fifth and sixth segments grey-white tonientose bands wiih 

 white pubescence, and is probably a different species. Walker 

 places it with the female with a query. 



Female has black antenna'. Moustache yellowish white. 

 Abdomen has the ovipositor broken off; Walker describes it 

 thus : — " Abdomen has nearly half the apical point stylate." 

 Scutellum with three weak black bristles. Legs stout, 

 redilish ; femora blackish at base and at apices; tibia? with 

 black apices, and tarsi black. 



Male has n)ore slender legs, the tarsi not so dark. Geni- 

 talia (impeifect) large, black, shining, with white hairs 

 above and below. iScutellum with two black bristles. 



Walker gives the length as 16-24 mm. 



Asilus macidipes, ? , Walker. 



List Dipt, vii., Suppl. 3, p. 605 [^Trupaneci] (1855). 



Ty])e (female) from Hong Kong, abdomen broken off. 

 Walker described it as 20 mm. loni'- and the abdomen 



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