the Asilidse of Australasia. 431 



wide, tlie fourth closed, the anal cell closed some way from 

 the border ; the small transverse vein is situated about the 

 middle of the discal cell ; veins black at base aod on fore 

 border, then reddish. Halteres black. 



Female identical. Ovipositor blackish, long, incladingthe 

 sixth and seventh segments, compressed at sides. 



Neoitamus, Osten-Sack:eD. 



Cat. Dipt. N. Amer. ed. 2, pp. 82 & 235 (1878) 



Itaimis, Loew, Linn. Ent. iv. p. 84 (1849), praeocc. Schmidt, Goeb. 

 Coll., 1846. ■ 



The following species are recorded from Australia, 

 Tasmania, and New Zealand : — 



Neoitamus varius,Walkei\ List Dipt. ii. p. 457 (1849), etpt, vii. Siippl. 3, 



p. 742 [Asilus] (1835) ; Hutton, Trans. New Z. Inst, xxxiii. 



p. 22 [Itainus] (1901). — Asilus fraternus (? females only), Macq., 



Dipt. Exot. Suppl. i. p. 219 (1844) ; v. d. Wulp, Sumatra Exp. 



Dipt. p. 25 [^Itamus] (1881). Asilus bulbus, Walker, var. B, List 



Dipt. pt. ii. p. 466 (1849). Itamus melanopogon, Schiner, ' Novara ' 



Raise, Dipt. p. 190 (1868)._ 

 Neoitamus mistipes, Macq., Dipt. Exot. Suppl. iv. p. 398, pi. ix. fig. 3 



lAsilus'] (1849). 

 Neoitamus bulbus, Walker, List Dipt. ii. p. 465 \_Asilus'] (1849), et vii. 



Suppl. 3, p. 743 \^Asilus'\ (1855). — Itamus inquisitor, Nowicki, Mem. 



d. Krakauer k.-k. Akad. d. Wiss. ii. p. 21 \_Itamus'\ (1875), et Beitr. 



z. Kentniss d. Dipt. Fauna Neu Seelands, 21 [^Itamus'] (1875). 

 Neoitamus plauiceps, Schiner, ' Novara ' Beise, Dipt. p. 189 \_Itamtis\ 



(1868). 

 Neoitamus hyalipennis, sp. n. 



The synonymy of these species here given differs con^ 

 siderably from that given by Kettesz in his Cat. Dipt., but 

 I believe, from the examination of Walker's types, this will 

 prove correct. 



Asilus sydneyensis does not belong to this genus, 



Neoitamus varius, Walker. 



Asilus fraternus, Macq. (females only). 

 Asilus bulbus, Walker, var. B. 

 Itamus melanopogon, Schiner. 



Macquart's type (male) and his original series of specimens 

 of females «een in Paris Museum, 12. 4. 11, from Tasmania. 

 The females were identical in all respects with a specimen of 

 Walker^s Asilus varius which I took for comparison ; the male 

 and another male specimen were identical, with the exception 

 of the genitalia, which were not so swollen and large, but 

 more long oval, and the white hairs on abdomen were not 



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