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AUSTRALIAN PLIES OF THE FAMILY ASILIDAE, 



Text-fig. 11. — Neoitamus claripes, male genitalia, (.x 2.j). 

 Text-fig. 12. — Neoitaiims margites, male genitalia, (x 25). 

 Text-fig. VA. ^Neoitaiims iiun-ulaloides, n.sp., male genitalia. 



(x25). 



d. The front, face and most of the tubercle are brownish; from the oral 

 margin to behind the eyes, the head is covered with a light grey tomentum. The 

 hair on the front is black. The tubercle is large, and contains a large moustache 

 of mostly black hairs, but at the oral margin the hairs are white. The beard is 

 white. There is apparently a double row of bristles behind the eyes. The an- 

 tennae are black, the first joint is twice the length of the second, the third is 

 elongate and tapering, and without any apparent differentiated style, and this is 

 longer than twice the length of the two ba-sal joints united. The eyes, proboscis 

 and palpi are black, the latter has white hairs. 



The thorax is black, with traces of four darker, thin, median stripes and light 

 grey tomentum stripes and spots. The dorsal thoracic bristles are disposed each 

 side of tlie median as follows: — two presutural; two superalar: two postalar; and 

 about seven dorsocentral . There are also numerous bristle-like hairs on the 

 dorsum. All the liristles including the two seulellar, the mctapleural and hypo- 

 pleural are l)lack. The hairs on the thorax are mostly black, but there are long, 

 thin, white hairs posteriorly and on the shoulder tubercles. 



The abdomen is black, with the incisions and sides dark grey. The hair 

 above and below is white. The bristles are long, black and prominent as far as 

 the sixth segment. The upper forceps of the male genitalia are long, naiTow 

 and .without a process. 



The legs have the anterior femora without spines, and tiie intermediate and 

 posterior femora with their respective spine systems more or less complete. 



The wings have a normal venation; the intermediate crossvein is situated a 

 little beyond the discal cell, and the second posterior cell is short. The lower 

 brancli of the cubital fork is rather strongly curved ujiwards. and there are 

 fuscous spots situated at the usual positions, one each at the apices of the mar- 



