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vein just beyond tlie middle of discal cell ; the vein closing 

 fourth posterior cell convex, the second posterior cell wide 

 at its base. 



Female identical. The black bristles on upper part of 

 moustache more numerous. Tiie tomentum of thorax more 

 grey than yellow. Ovipositor long, the last two segments 

 included in it, black, shining, with some pale yellow hairs at 

 sides. 



This species and N. hyalipennis are both distinguished 

 from N.fraternus by the quite clear wings. 



Neoitamus bulbus. Walker. 



Itamns inquisitor, Nowicki, 



Tvpes, two female co-types (not a male and female as 

 Walker states) ; one measures 22 mm. in length, the other 

 14 mm., which roughly corresponds to Walker's length 

 6^-10 lines, so that it appears probable he mistook one of 

 these females for a male. Both are in a very dirty dilapi- 

 dated condition, but they correspond fairly to the long 

 careful description giveu by Nowicki and appear to be the 

 species h3 was describing. It may be distinguished from 

 N. fraternus at once by the presence of spines on the fore 

 femora below and by the colour of the legs, which are chestnut- 

 coloured, the femora with a black stripe below ; apices of 

 tibiae and all the tarsi black, the moustache is entirely black. 

 Nowicki mentions some yellowish-white hairs ; his type also 

 came from New Zealand. 



The var. B of Walker does not belong to this species, but 

 is identical with N. varius, Wlk. 



Neoitamus plamceps, (5* , Schmer. - '^'^^-^'^ ^ !' ^ 



From Australia, described from one male specimen only. 



Schiner remarks it cannot be the same as Asilus seti- 

 femoratus or rufotarsus, Macquart, and describes the fore 

 femora as armed with four black bristles below, which pre- 

 cludes it from being identical with N. fraternus, Macq. 

 Legs are black, the tibiae yellow, so that it can hardly be the 

 same as N. bulbus, Wlk., or N. mistipes, Macq. 



Neoitamus hyalipennis, sp. n. 



Co-types, one male and two females from Mr. French's 

 coll., Mallee District, Victoria. 



This species is at once distinguished from N. mistipes by 

 the wholly black femora. A black species with a very thick 



