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19. Abdomen with short close pubescence, 



nearly bare. Wings not white at base . Asilus, Linn. 

 Abdomen with long fine outstanding pubes- 

 cence. Wings usually white or pale at 

 base Fainponerus, Loew. 



Allocotosia, Scliiner. 



Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xvi. p. 845 (1866). 



No species have been recorded in this genus from the 

 Aiistrahau Region with the exception of three species from 

 Celebes, viz. : — 



Allocotosia aurata, Fabr., scitula, Wlk., and vulpina, Bigot ; 

 the Walker species has also been recorded by Schiner from 

 Amboyna. 



Emphysomera, Schiner. 

 Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xvi. p. 845 (1866). 



The only species as yet recorded from the Australasian 

 Region are E. nigra, Schiner, Novara Reise, Dipt. p. 195 

 (1868), from Gilolo ; E. peregrina, v. d. Wulp, Tijd. v. 

 Entom. (2) vii. (xv.) p. 253 (1872), from Ternate ; and 

 E. spathulata, DoL, Nat. Tijd. Nederl. Ind. (4) iii. xvii. 

 p. 89 [Ommatius) (1858), from Amboyna. 



Walker's species Ommatius platymelas is the same as 

 E. spathulata. Ommatius invehens and bacchoides, Walker, 

 both belong to this genus from I. Waigiou and Ceram; the 

 latter type, a male, has the wing dilated on fore border as in 

 E. peregrina. 



The genus is easih^ distinguished by the flat face and 

 «lub-shaped abdomen. 



Ommatius, Wiedemann. 



Dipt. Exot. p. 213 (1821). 



The following species are recorded from Australia and 

 Tasmania : — 



Ommatius chinensis, Fabr., Ent. Syst iv. p. 383 [Asilus] (1794), For 

 other references and synonyms see Kertesz, Cat, Dipt. 1909, 



Ommatius angustiventris, Macq., Dipt. Exot. Suppl. iv. p. 293, pi. viii. 

 fig. 10 (1849); Schiner, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xviii. p. 410 

 (1867).— 07?i?«a<«<s corcsbus, Wlk., List Dipt. ii. pp. 473 et 759. 



Ommatius lema, Wlk., List Dipt. ii. p. 472 (1849), et vii. Suppl. 3, p. 759 

 (1855). 



Ommatius dimidiatus, Macq., Dipt. Exot. Suppl. iv. p. 394, pi. viii. 

 fig. 11 (1849). 



Ommatius vitticrus, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (5) vi. Bull. Ixxxv.' 2 

 (1876). 



Ommatius mackayi, sp. n. 



Ommatius queenslandi, sp. n. 



