the AslVidae of Australasia. 435 



black moustache. Legs stout, armed with many bristles. 

 Tibiae only yellow at their base. 



Length, ^ 16, ? 20 mm. 



Male. — Face covered with grey tomentum ; the tubercle 

 large, black ; the moustache composed of many black bristly 

 hairs, with white ones below and in the middle. Beard 

 white. Antennce black, the black hairs on the first two joints 

 thick and long. Hind part of head at vertex with black 

 hairs, curled upwards, elsewhere white. Thorax black, with 

 grey tomentum and black stripes, the dorsum with black 

 pubescence, rather approaching in their arrangement species 

 of Dysmachus ; black bristles at sides strong and numerous, 

 posteriorly the black hairs are long and bristly. Scutellum 

 with short whitish pubescence and four weak, long, yellow 

 bristles on its posterior border. Abdomen blackish, with 

 grey tomentum at sides ; dorsum with short white hairs ; 

 segmentations with grey tomentum, sides with longer white 

 hairs. Genitalia black, shining, long, club-shaped, with 

 black pubescence. Legs black ; coxse with grey tomentum 

 and long white hairs ; fore femora with long blackish hairs 

 below, shorter ones above intermixed with white ones, the 

 middle pair with short black pabescence and strong black 

 bristles below and at apex, the hind pair with shorter black 

 bristles below ; tibiae yellow at base, the fore tibiae with loni^ 

 black hairs below and shorter ones above and with stout 

 black bristles, the others the same, but with no long black 

 hairs ; tarsi with black bristles, fore tibiae at apex and meta- 

 tarsi with short yellowish pubescence below. Wings clear, 

 veins black ; second posterior cell wide at its base, the vein 

 closing fourth posterior convex ; the small transverse vein 

 situated on two-thirds of discal cell. 



Female identical. Ovipositor as in N. misiipes. 



P ^^\Jhe species of Neoitamus from other parts of the Austra- 

 ^ lasian Region (not Australia) are Neoitamus griseus, Wied., 

 iUh ^^^oZm/z^s, and longistylusy Wlk., from New Guinea and else- 

 /?> where. Neoitamus melanopygus and spinicauda, v. d. Wulp, 

 from Celebes. 



Neoitamus involutus, Walker. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. v. p. 281 [Asilus] (1861), et vi. p. 7 [Asilus] (1862) ; 



Ost.-Sack., Ann. Mils. Civ. Genova, xvi. p. 423 [Itatnus] (1882). 

 Asilus normalis, Walker, Proc. Linu. Soc. London, vi. p, 18 (1862). 



These two types appear identical. 



The types of normalis, male and female, come from 

 Ternate ; the specimens, females, of involutus from Ternatc 

 and Gilolo. 



