long, black, buzzing nasty !

[niki_turtle]

I've only ever seen one before (again in my house), but had another in my living room this evening (southeast UK)
About an inch long flying (very loud buzz when flying) insect. Long thin and black with what looked like a huge sting on its rear. It wasn't soft bodied .. took quite a lot of effort to kill it (sorry, but I panicked!)
I can't find a picture of it anywhere and have no idea what is was .. but do know it didnt look like any normal insect.
Would anybody have any ideas please ??

[garner]

Could be a devils coachhorse, fancy killing it.!!!

[niki_turtle]

garner, from what I've seen of pictures of them (just googled), definitely not. The coachorse looked more crawly than a flying type ? it was very straight, and shiny black, like a mini missile.
Shooing it out didn't seem to be an option at the time .. it just looked mean ! :-D

[B00]

This the dude?

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http: //www.glaucus.org.uk/Fly230605-RH.jpg&imgrefur l=http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Flies2.html&h=357& w=445&sz=20&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=n9hJE6NCg Yf3DM:&tbnh=102&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Duk %2Bflying%2Binsects%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl %3Den%26sa%3DN

Bigger picture of him is about a 3rd of the page down.

[niki_turtle]

ooh, very similar BOO ! difficult to tell scale. I would've said the wings were much smaller in proportion to its body though. Wish I'd just caught it in a glass now and taken a picture !