190 Miss G. Ricavdo on 



blaokisji, the second joint reddish, the first two joints with 

 black bristles, the ari-ta loiio-. 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 tomeutum, the side-stripes small; pnbescence 

 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 l)]ack with yellow ones below. 

 Genitalia short, reddish brown^ with black hairs and some 

 whitish ones at apex; below appear long black hairs on the 

 small red-brown segment ])receding the genitalia. Legs 

 blackish; the fore and middle tibiae almost wholly rufous- 

 colouredj the extreme apex of femora below reddish ; fore 

 femora practically unarmed, with soft white hairs; 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, S , Walker. 



Ins. Saimd., Dipt. i. p. 114 ITrHpanea] (1851); et Liat Dipt, vii., 

 Suppl, 3, p. 602 [Trupcmea] (1855). 



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



A large robust species in very bad preservation. Legs 

 black with greyish-yellow tomeutum ; 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. n. 



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

 Beeson). 



Type (female) and another from Magauug, INIyitkyina 

 District, Upper Burmah (Capt. IVhitmore, I. M.S.). Males 

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



Length, c? 17-18, ? 19-23 ram. 



A species distinguished from Philodicus ceylonicus by 

 the white moustache with only two or three black bristles 

 near the oral opening and by the presence of some white 



