South African and Oriental Asilinse. 187 



Philodlcus ruhrifnrsatHS, Macq. Dipt. Exot. i. (2) p. 215 \_Trui)anea] 



(1838). 

 Fhilodicus gohares, Wlk. List Dipt. ii. p. 420 \_Asilus\ (1838) ; et vii., 



Suppl. 3, p. 004 [^Trujxniecr] (1855). 

 Pliilodicus tdifer, Wlk. Ins. 8aund., Dipt. i. p. 115 [^Trupanea] (1851); 



et List Dipt, vii., Suppl. 3, p. GOti [Trnpanea] (1855). 

 Philodicus sngittifer, Wlk. Ins. Saund., Dipt. i. p. 116 \_Trupanea\ 



(1851); et"List Dipt, vii., Suppl. 3, p. 606 ITrupanea'] (1855). 

 Philodicus innotabilis, Wlk. List Dipt, vii., Suppl. 3, p. 604 [Trupanea] 



(1855). 

 Philodicus co/ijinis, Wlk. List Dipt, vii., Suppl. 3, p. 606 [T7-tipa7iea] 



(1855). 

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



p. 408, pi. vi. fig. 2 lAsilus''^ (185(f). 

 Philodicus inserens, Wlk. Proc. Linn. Soc. London, i. p. 110 [^Trupanea] 



(1857). 



The t3'pe of gobares is a female from Silliet. 



The type of telifer is a female from East India. 



Tiie type of sayittifer is a female with another male and 

 female from East India (Walker Coll.). 



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

 female from Java and Sumatra. 



The type of confinis 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 lengtli is 20-22 mm., though v. d. Wulp mentions 

 some he had from Java as only 14 mm. long. 



Tiie 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 meagre 

 to identify the type without seeing it. Schiuer records it 

 from Batavia in Novara Reise, 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 Kumaou, 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 tibife 

 reddish below and on the outside; the posterior tibiae red ou 

 the upperside; the bristles chiefly black, a few white ones 

 occasionally, usually one long one on the fore tibia; ou out- 

 side : fore femora below with three or more black bristles 



