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the Asilidae of Australasia. 415 



with a row of black bristly hairs each side and some yellow 



hairs. Hind part of head armed with very stout black 



bristles. Thorax black, with grey tomentum ; two black 



bristles above base of wings^ four or more below, and others 



on posterior border of thorax, intermixed with black hairs ; 



sides with grey tomentum and white pubescence. Scutellum 



as thorax, armed with a double row o£ bristles. Abdomen 



blacky with narrow ashy-grey segmentations on the first four 



segments, uniting with the ashy grey sides, the pubescence 



pale yellow or white ; the last t - lwoe segments narrow, wholly 



black ; the ovipositor black, as long as the last segment ;' 



underside ashy grey, with long white pubescence. Legs red, 



the femora largely black, only red below, the apices of the 



tibiae and the tarsi wholly black ; all the numerous bristles 



are black, pubescence on femora and tibise whjtrsh, on cq\^ ^clU^^ 



white and long. Wings hyaline tinged with pale brown, the , 



streak in first submarginal cell large and distinct ; veins / 



fulvous, the small transverse vein on basal third of discal 



cell. 



Male, — Hairs intermixed in moustache are more numei'ous 

 and pale golden yellow. Antennae with some fulvous thick 

 pubescence on lower side of first joint ; the third joint with 

 long terminal bristle. Beard and hairs on legs same colour 

 as hairs of moustache. Abdomen narrower, the ashy-grey 

 colour being replaced by the same golden-yellow colour 

 present on all the posterior borders and sides of segments ; 

 genital organs black, prominent ; red colour of legs more 

 inclining to yellow. 



Promachus doddi, $ , sp, n. 



Type ( ? ) from Townsville, Queensland {F. P. Dodd), and 

 type(cJ) and another and a female from Endeavour River, 

 Queensland, in Mr. Frenches Coll., and other females from 

 Burpengary, Queensland (Bancroft). 



A large species with black oblong spots on the greyish 

 abdomen reaching the anterior border of segments, but not 

 attaining the side borders ; legs reddish, with white pubes- 

 cence, and moustache yellowish white. 



Length, ($ 25, $ 27 mm. (without ovipositor). 



Face black, covered with whitish tomentum ; the moustache 

 above oral opening consists of strong yellowish bristles and 

 some fine hairs intermixed, which latter are continued up 

 middle of face to base of antennae. Palpi in (^ with a few 

 long black bristles at the apex and whitish-yellow bristle-like 

 hairs below, in the ? whollv whitish yellow. Beard 



