the Asilidoe of Australasia. 481 



wholly yellow legs, only the tarsi becoming brownish. 

 Thorax and breast-sides the same colour as legs. Abdomen 

 black. IVhigs pale brownish. 



Cabasa honesta, ? , Walker. 



Type ( ? ) from Aru Island. 



Distinguished by the colouring of the legs from the other 

 species. Legs black, the coxse, the extreme apices of femora, 

 and tiietibise (with the exception of the apices) reddish yellow. 

 Antenna black. Thorax black, but covered with brownish- 

 yellow tomentum ; breast-sides the same, with a broad 

 shining reddish-yellow stripe. Abdomen blue-black, with 

 narrow testaceous posterior borders. 



Chrysopogon, Koder. 



Berlin, ent. Zeit. xxv. p. 213 (1881) ; id., Stett. ent. Zeit. liii. p. 243 

 (1892). 



Founded for C. crabroniform.is, Roder ; C. milUeri, Roder, 

 was added in 1892. The author distinguishes the genus 

 from Laparus, Loew (now Neolaj^arus), by the stout spine 

 on each side of the thorax and by the closed or very much 

 narrowed first posterior cell ; this last distinction will not 

 hold good, as two of the species now added to this genus 

 both have the cell open, but possess the stout spine on the 

 thorax which will serve to divide the genus from Neolaparus. 

 Dasypogon albojmnctatus, Macq., of which Dasypogon spinther, 

 Wlk., IS a synonym, was placed by Schiner niidei Neolaparus, 

 but belongs to this newer genus. 



The genus will now iHclude the following species : — 



U4'C. albopunctatus, Macq., Dipt. Exot. Suppl. 1, p. 193, pi. vi. fig. 7 \_Dasi/- 

 l^ jioyou] (1846); Schiner, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wieu, xvi. p. 700 

 (1866), et xvii. p. 369 [Dasi/payon] (1867). Dnsi/poyoti spinther, 

 :;^ ■ Walker, List Dipt. ii. p. 337, 'et \\. Suppl. 2, p. 478 (1854). 



^ ,, C. crabronifomiis, Iloder, Berlin, ent. Zeit. xxv. p. 213 (1881). 

 - C. niiiUeri, Eoder, Stett. ent. Zeit. liii. p. 243 (1892). 



C. fasciatus, sp. n. 



C. puoctatus, sp. n. 



C. queenslandi, sp. n. 



C. spleudidissimus, sp. n. 



1. First posterior cell closed or narrower. 



Wings yellowisb 2. 



First posterior cell open, bardly narrower. 

 Wings brownish or hyaline 3. 



2. Abdomen reddish yellow, with black spots. 



Antennge yellow. Legs red, the femora 



black splendidissimns, sp, n. 



Abdomen black, with transverse yellow 



Antennfe black. Legs red .... 7iri(lleri, Rcider. 



