tlie AsilidfB of Australasia. 4J:5 



abdomen black, with greyish tomenturu and white pubes- 

 cence. Legs bright red ; knees, apices of tibifB, all tarsi 

 black ; in some of the specimens (not in the type) a black 

 streak is present on basal half of hind femora; pubescence of 

 legs black ; on femora below are white hairs ; all bristles 

 black, some stout ones on underside of middle and posterior 

 femora. Wings hyaline, grey ; veins blackish, the small 

 cross-vein a little above the middle of the discal cell ; first 

 posterior cell hardly narrower where the first vein from the 

 discal cell borders it, as the second posterior cell hardly 

 bulges at base ; fourth posterior cell closed. Halteres 

 reddish yellow. 



Asilus discutiens, Walker. 



Asilus midleolits, Walker. 



Type (female) from New South Wales (Saunders Coll.), 

 and a male from the same place (/. /. Walker) ; another 

 from Van Diemeu^s Land (Jensen). 



Type of malleolus (male) from unknown locality. 



Var. B is not to be identified. 



In the Paris Museum a long series of this species is labelled 

 in Macqnart's handwriting " Asilus unilineafus" evidently 

 only a MS. name. 



The species is nearly allied to Asilus ingloi'ius, Macleay, 

 but is distinguished by the more robust form of the males 

 and by the darker colouring of the abdomen in both sexes 

 and by the thick hairs on abdomen being continued on the 

 sides of the third segment. It is blackish in colour, with 

 tufts of yellow hairs and short yellowish pubescence on the 

 abdomen. Palpi with black pubescence, and the yellow 

 moustache has some black hairs above and below. The 

 yellow bristles on the legs mentioned by Walker appear only 

 as two paler bristles on the posterior tibiie in the female, 

 and are not present in the male. 



Asilus hyagnis, Walker. -- j^^^'^h^e^'^*^'^ ht^^i.. 



Type (male) from New South Wales (Saunders Coll.) . Two 

 males and three females from Burpengary, Queensland 

 {Dr. T. L. Bancroft), 1904. 



This species is apparently distinct, not a synonym of any 

 of Macquart's, as far as can be judged without seeing all the 

 types of the latter author. The redescription is based on 

 the fresh specimens. 



Species with reddish legs, armed partly with white bristles 



