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its base outside the third vein not so wide as the part inside 

 above discal cell in the male, in the female it is as wide as 

 the small transverse vein just below the middle of discal cell. 



Asilus rufiventris, Macquart. 



Type seen by me in Paris Museum, 12. 4. 11. 



Specimens in Brit. Mas. Coll. from Victoria, Moreton 

 Bay, and Toowomba, Queensland. 



A handsome species, not unlike Asilus pelago, Wlk,, but 

 easily distinguished by the reddish femora, the tibise pale 

 yellow, and by only the ovipositor in the female being black ; 

 in the Walker species the last segment is also black. 



Macquart describes it thus : — 



Thorax chestnut, with black stripes. Abdomen red. 

 Femora testaceous^ tibise red, tarsi black. 



Length 13 lines, $ ? . 



Face, moustache, and forehead pale yellow. Beard white. 

 Autennsewith the first two joints testaceous, the third black. 

 The intermediate stripe of thorax divided by a whitish line. 

 Sexual organs brown, $ ? . Posterior femora elongated. 

 Wings yellow, apex brownish. 



From New South Wales. 



Asilus sydneyensis, Macquart. 



jisilusjackso}iii, Macq. 

 ? Asilus tasmanics, Macq. 

 ? Asilus nigritarsis, Macq. 

 Asilus amythaon, Wlk. 

 Asilus tnaso, Wlk. 



Type of A, sydneyensis, a male, seen in Paris Museum, 

 12. 4. 11 : from Sydney. Type of ^. jacksonii, a female, 

 seen at the same time, is identical : from New South Wales. 

 Asilus tasmania, from the description, would appear to be 

 identical, also a male : from Hobart Town. Asilus nigri- 

 tarsis, the same : from Hobart Town and New Guinea. 



Type of Asilus amythaon, a female, is from Hunter River, 

 New South Wales (presented by Lord Derby). Type of 

 Asilus maso, a female, from unknown locality. 



Face narrow, broader below, covered with yellowish 

 tomentum ; the tubercle large, taking up almost half the 

 face, moustache on it composed of numerous white bristles 

 and some black ones above. Palpi with black pubescence. 

 Antennae black, the first two joints with black bristly liairs. 

 Forehead very similar to face, with black hairs. Thorax 

 blackish, with yellow tomentose stripes and markings, black 



