Fro7n the Annals and Magazine op Natural History, 

 Ser. 8, Vol. xi., May 1913. 



A Revision of the Asilidae of Australasia. 

 By Gertrude Ricardo. 



[Concluded from p. 425.] 



Pararatus, gen. nov. 



Allied to Aratus, v. d, Wulp (now Neoaratiis) , in having no 

 bristles on the abdomen, and in the neuration of the luing, 

 but is distinguished from it by the non-dilation of the 

 wing on its fore border in both sexes, and by the genital 

 organs, which in the male are very large and club-shaped ; 

 the ovipositor of the female is compressed at the sides, 

 bringing it thus near Neoitumus in this respect, from which, 

 however, the neuration of wivg and large size of the species 

 distinguish it. It is also allied to Blepharotes iu the large 

 genital organs of male. From. Asilus in sensu slricto it is 

 distinguished by the character of these organs. 



Tvpe and only species of genus from Victoria, New S. 

 Wales. 



Pararatus macrostylus, Loew. 



Zeitsclir. f. d. ges. Naturwiss. N. F. x. (xliv.) p. 75 {Ble2)7iarofes) 

 (1874). 



One male and one female in Brit. Mus. Coll. from 

 Champion Bay, W. Australia {Du Boulay). Four males 

 from Malice District, Victoria, in Mr. French's coll. 



Loew divided this species off from Blepharotes coriarius, 

 stating he had often seen specimens of both species in 



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