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AUSTRALIAN PLIES OF THE FAHILY ASILIDAE, 



with grey tomentum, and contains some long black hairs on the ocelli; these hairs 

 extend in two rows parallel to the eyes. The antennae are black ; the first joint 

 contains some short black bristles and some long black ventral hairs; the second 

 segment is half the length of the first and contains some short black bristles; the 

 third segment is as long as the second and tapers into an apparently unjointed 

 arista, the whole length of the joint and arista is slightly longer than the two 

 basal joints united. The proboscis is black, and the palpi are black with black 

 hairs. The beard is white. Behind the eyes there is a double row of black bristles. 



The thoracic markings are of the usual form containing a pair of median 

 stripes and an interrupted lateral stripe on each side. The dorsal thoracic 

 bristles are disposed on each side of the median as follows: — two presutural; 

 two, rarely three, superalar; three, rarely four, postalar; seven dorsocentral. All 

 these bristles, the four scutellar bristles, the metapleural and hypopleural bristles 

 are black. The thorax ventrally is covered with grey tomentum and white hairs 



The abdominal bristles are yellowish, long, and conspicuous from the third to 

 the sixth segments only. The segments are black dorsally, with mostly black 

 hairs; the incisions, sides and ventre are grey, with grey tomentum and lon^- yel- 

 lowish hairs. The upper forceps of the male genitalia widen apically, and each 

 branch has a long, strong, ventral bristle placed subapically, and anteriorlv to 

 these there are a few long hairs. The lower forceps have a row of eight \entral 

 bristles each ; the first and eighth bristles are weakest . 



Text-tigs. 14-1.'5. — Neoilamiis setosus, n.sp. It, female ovipositor; 

 15, male genitalia, (x 25). 



The legs have the coxae covered with gi'ey tomentum and hairs, and the irter- 

 mediate coxae have two black bristles; the femora are black with white pub- 

 escence. Tlic anterior femora are without spines; the intermediate and posterior 

 femora have their respective system of spines more or less complete. 



