the Asilidse of Australasia. 143 



Head wider than thorax. 



Face covered with pale golden tomentum, Hat, raised at 

 oral opening almost as a tubercle, on which the pale yellow 

 bristles forming the moustache are placed. Palpi reddish 

 yellow, with long pale yellow hairs. Proboscis long. Beard 

 white. Antenna reddish yellow : the first two joints with 

 thick black hairs; the second slightly the longest; the third 

 club-shaped, hardly longer than the first two joints together. 

 Forehead darker than face, with six long black bristles on 

 the ocelligerous tubercle. Hind part of head with bristle- 

 like yellow hairs. Thorax greenish grey, with greyish-yellow 

 tomentum, with three black bristles above the transverse 

 suture at sides and numerous ones beyond ; breast-sides 

 paler in colour ; prothorax well developed ; scutellum armed 

 with two black bristles. Abdomen blackish, with narrow 

 dull reddish posterior borders to segments ; sides of dorsum 

 yellowish, grey tomentum on anterior borders and at sides 

 of segments ; pubescence very scanty, short, yellowish ; 

 ovipositor prominent below. 



Legs reddish yellow ; hind tarsi and apices of tibise black ; 

 femora devoid of bristles, tibise and tarsi with strong yellow 

 ones. Wings hyaline, greyish at apex ; veins brown, the 

 small transverse vein situated just beyond the middle of 

 discal cell ; the first posterior cell slightly narrower at border, 

 the fourth closed far from border; anal cell very much 

 narrowed at border, but open. 



Saropogon, Loew. 

 Linn. Ent. ii. p. 439 (1847). 



For species from New Zealand see Hutton, Trans. New f^ s> j , 

 Zealand Inst, xxxiii. p. 18 (1900), et p. 195 {V^^\)^^'^^^^^it^^i^^ 



The species as yet recorded from the Australasian Region w ' ' / 

 are confined to Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, 

 viz. : — 



Saropogon sergius, Walker, List Dipt. ii. p. 347 \J)asyiwgon\ (1849), et 



vi. Suppl. 2, p. 477 \j)cisypogorC\ (1854) ; Kertesz, Oat. Dipt. p. 73 



l^Lasiopoffon] (1909). — Dasypoyonfestincms, cJ ? Walker, Dipt. Saund. 



i. p. 92 (18.51), et List Dipt. vi. Suppl. 2, p. 405 (1854). 

 Saropogon vidnus. Walker, List Dipt. ii. p. 354 et vi. Suppl. 2, p. 483 



[^Dasypogoii] (1849) ; Hutton, Trans. Kew Zealand Inst, xxxiii. p. 19 



(1901). 

 Saropogon discus, Walker, List Dipt. ii. p. 358 (1849), et vi. Suppl. 2, 



p. 483 \^Dasypoyo7i'] (1854) ; Hutton, Trans. New Zealand Inst, xxxiii. 



p. 19 (J 901). — Saropoyon huchoni, llutton, /. c. p. 20. 

 Saropogon suavis. Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, n. ser. iv. p. 327 



[Da.sypogon] (1857) ; Kertesz, Cat. Dipt. p. 132 [Dasj/pogon] (,1857). 



— Dasypogon yamaras, Walker, List Dipt. ii. p. .346 (1849), et vi. 



Suppl. 2, p. 48G (1854) ; Kertesz, Cat. Dipt. p. 73 \_Lasiopogon\ (1909). 



