56 ASILID.B. 



13. varipes, Mg. zw. ii. 338. 33 (1820). Cemno-canus, an- 

 tennis iiigris, tliorace nigro-trivittato, alis limpidis apice margineque 

 postico subfiiscis, abdomine fusco-univittato, pedibiis rufis nigro-cinctis. 

 Long. 6-6i ; alar. 11-12 lin. 



Hoai'V, tinged with fawn-colour. Head fringed behind and above 

 with black bristles, thickly clothed beneath with white hairs ; epistoma 

 rather prominent, thickly beset with black bristles and having a few 

 slender white bristles towards the peristoma. Antennae black ; first 

 and second joints beset with black bristles. Thorax beset along the 

 borders with black bristles ; its disc black, with the exception of 3 

 slender stripes, the middle one not extending half the length from the 

 fore border. Wings colourless, pale broAvn towards the tips and along 

 the hind borders. Halteres tawny. Abdomen with a broad brown 

 stripe ; hind borders of the segments pale hoary, iiiten-upting the brown 

 stripe, beset with white bristles. Legs red, beset with black bristles ; 

 femora black above, with red tips ; tips of the til)i8e black ; tarsi black, 

 red at the base. 



Not rare. (E.) 



14. albiceps, Mg. zw. ii. 312. 8 (1820). Cinereus, capite al- 

 bido, antennis nigris, thorace fusco-quadrivittato, alis albidis, abdo- 

 minis segmentorum marginibus posticis albidis apice nigi'o, pedibus 

 nigris. Long. 8|; alar. 12 lin. 



Cinereous. Head whitish, thickly clothed beneath with white hairs ; 

 a few black hairs on each side of the crown, and a fringe of white 

 bristles behind the eyes ; epistoma very convex, beset with w hitish 

 bristles and above with 4 or 6 black bristles. Palpi tlunly clothed 

 with pale hairs. Antennae black; fii-st and second joints beset 

 with black bristles. Thorax thinly clothed with short black hairs, 

 beset on each side and behind with a few black bristles, having 4 

 brown stripes, the inner pair nearly united, the outer pair short, broad, 

 and inteiTupted. Wings whitish ; veins tawny, slightly clouded. 

 Halteres yellow, tawny at the base. Abdomen clothed with short 

 white hairs ; hind borders of the segments whitish, beset with a few 

 white bristles; tip black, shining. Legs black, clothed A\ith short 

 white hairs ; femora and tibia3 armed with white spines ; tarsi armed 

 with black sphies, clothed beneath with tawny down. 



Eare. In the collection of the Entomological Club. (E.) 



Genus III. DASYPOGON. 

 Dasypogon, Mg. kl. (1804); Pz.; Pin. ; LI. ; Mq. ; Ct. ; Ztt. ; Lw. 



Asilus p., L. ; Pb. ; Gm. ; Pz. Dasijpogon p., Pb. Dlodria p., 



Mg. kl. ; Pb. 

 Corpus magnse aut medise magnitudinis, oblongum, hirsutulum. Color 



