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reddish yellow, the first two segments almost wholly blackish, 

 the eighth and genital organs black ; underside dull rufous 

 where the upper part is reddish yellow ; dorsum almost bare, 

 a tuft of black hairs on sides of first segment, and black 

 hairs on remaining ones at sides ; short yellow pubescence on 

 dorsum. Legs black, the coxae and fore femora below with 

 white hairs, the middle and posterior femora with black 

 bristles below ; the tibiae yellow on basal two-thirds, with 

 short yellow pubescence ;' elsewhere pubescence is black ; 

 all bristles black. Wings hyaline, the veins yellowish, the 

 small cross-vein beyond the middle of discal cell, submar- 

 ginal cell rilled. 



Female identical ; the ovipositor conical, black, a little 

 longer than the last segment. 



Asilus blasio, Walker. 



Type ( (J ) from Perth, W. Australia (purchased G. Clifton). 



Two males and six females from Daudenong Ranges in 

 Mr. Frenches Coll., from which the description is given ; the 

 type is very old and worn. 



A well-marked species, with black-striped thorax and 

 abdomen and red legs, with knees^ tarsi, and hhort stripes on 

 the femora black. 



Length, S 15-19, ? 16-22 mm. 



Face black, with yellowish tomentum, whitish below the 

 antennae; tubercle prominent, large, bearing the black 

 moustache, some white bristles intermixed, chiefly below. 

 Palpi black, with long black pubescence and some white 

 hairs. Beard of long white pubescence. Forehead greyish, 

 with black pubescence, hairs round hind part of head white, 

 with black bristles at the vertex. Thorax grey, with five 

 black stripes, the median one divided, those next to it short, 

 not reaching the shoulders, the outer ones a little longer ; 

 pubescence black, longer posteriorly; sides and breast 

 covered with stripes of yellowish tomentum and some scanty 

 white pubescence ; black bristles on sides and posterior part 

 of thorax ; scutellwm covered with yellowish-grey tomentum 

 and with black bristles posteriorly. Abdomen covered with 

 5'cllowish-grey tomentum, with a wide, black, median dorsal 

 and narrower lateral stripes ; pubescence on dorsum follows 

 the colours ; weak yellow bristles are apparent on the sides 

 of each segment as far as the sixth one, with yellowish- white 

 hairs below ; on the last two segments bristles and pubes- 

 cence are black ; anus of female black, shining, with black 

 hairs ; the genitalia of male prominent, black ; underside of 



