Asilus elva, Francis Walker, 1849

Francis Walker, 1849, List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, London: British Museum (Natural History) : 445

ASILUS Elva , n. s. Fuscas, pectore cinereo, abılomine nigra fasciis fulvis, subtus piceo fasciis ferrugineis, antennis pedibusque nigris, tibiis piceis, alis cinereis.

Body pale brown, with a tawny tinge: head much narrower than the chest, thickly beset above, behind, and on the clypeus with black bristles, furnished on each side of the front with a few pale yellow hairs, clothed beneath with piceous hairs: eyes black; fore part quite flat, composed of larger facets, and very distinct from the other part: lip black, clothed at the base with long, at the tips with short pale yellow hairs; palpi black, and clothed with black hairs: feelers black first and second joints thickly beset with black bristles, dark ferruginous at the tips; second joint much shorter than the first; third joint oval, as long as the first, and much broader: chest clothed with short black hairs, and beset on each side and behind with black bristles breast gray: abdomen black, clothed with short black hairs, tapering from the base to the tip, hardly narrower than the chest at the base and much less than twice its length; hind borders of the segments dull tawny, and clothed with short yel-- low hairs; sides beset with black bristles and stout black hairs; under-side piceous; hind borders of the segments dark ferruginous: legs black, thickly clothed with black hairs, and beset with some black bristles; shanks and under-side of the feet piceous; claws black; foot-cushions yellow: wings dark gray; wing-ribs and veins piceous,

the latter black towards the tips; poisers dark tawny. Length of the body 6% lines; of the wings 9 lines. a.

North Bengal . From Miss Campbelys collection.