BY G. H. HARDY. 295 



The abdomen is yellowish red and on each segment there is a pair of black 

 lateral tufts of hair. The third to eighth segments have a few white hairs on 

 the anterior side of each tuft. 



The male genitalia are large, black, abundantly covered with black bristly 

 hairs and are of the form shown in Text-figure 9. The upper forceps have a 

 blunt process on the upper edge and the apex is pointed. The lower forceps 

 are simple. 



The female ovipositor is black, shining and considerably compressed. 



The hairs on the anterior and intermediate coxae are white. The legs are 

 entirely black and, with the exception of the above, they have all the hairs and 

 bristles black; the pulvilli are brown. 



The wings are uniformly suffused dark brown. 



Length. — 34 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Mt. Coot-tha, Brisbane, 19th December, 1920. A pair 

 taken in copula. 



Types. — The male holotype and the female allotype are in my collection. 



Genus Par a rat us Ricardo. 



Type, Blepharotes macrostylus Loew. Western Australia. 



Cliaracters. — The abdomen is cylindrical and the female has the apical seg- 

 ments more or less compressed, similar to the compressed abdomens of some 

 species of the genus Neoitamus but the lamella appears to be differently con- 

 structed. This lamella seems to be composed of three separate plates, one lying 

 horizontally and the other two placed above it in such a manner that the apical 

 borders of the three plates form a triangle. The lamella widens towards the 

 apex. The wings have the normal two sul)marginal cells. 



Genus Neoitamus Osten-Sacken. 



Type, Asilus cyanens Loew. Europe. 



Characters. — The abdomen is cylindrical. The female has the apical seg- 

 ments more or less compressed and the lamella is apparently simple. In one 

 species retained within this genus there are apparently two small separated 

 lamellae on the female abdomen. The wings have the normal two submarginal 

 cells. 



Note. — The genera Rhabdotoitamus and Trichoitamus were described by 

 White on characters of insufficient importance to warrant them being accepted 

 as of generic rank. Too little is yet known about this obscure group to form 

 satisfactory definitions or even to suggest any difference between the genera pro- 

 posed by W^hite. 



Neoitamus abditus White. 



7/a6.— New South Wales: Grenfell, Ajiril 1921; collected by Miss E. C. 

 Horrocks. This record adds a new State to the range of this species. 



Neoitamus neoclaripes, n. sp. 



Ncoitamwi claripes. Hardy {nee White), Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, xlv., 

 1920, p. 197, Text-fig. 11. 



Synonymy. — I am indebted to Major E. E. Austen who has kindly com- 

 pared my figures of the genitalia in These Proceedings (Vol. xlv.) with some of 

 the type specimens of the genera Asilus and Neoitamus in the British Museum. 



