From the Annals and Magazink of Natural History 

 Ser. 8. Vol. ix., April 1912. ' 



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A Rev ision of the Asilidse of Australasia./ 



By Gertrude Ricardo. 



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In a collection of Diptera sent me several j^ears ago by- 

 Mr. French from the Melbourne Museum, for determination, 

 were a certain number of Asilidse. In attempting to name 

 them I found great confusion in the nomenclature of the 

 species, and of their generic place, from Australia. The 

 following paper is an attempt to clear up some of these 

 errors, but no doubt there will still be much to revise when 

 more material is available. The majority of the old species 

 were described by Macquart and Walker, who both worked 

 at about the same time — Walker from 1849-1856 and 

 Macquart from 1838-1855 ; iu consequence there are very 



