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NEW AUSTRALIAN aSILID^, 



With Notes on the Classification of the Asilinae, 



By Arthur White. 



[Received 20th August, 1917. Read 10th September, 

 1917. Issued separately 22nd January, 1918.] 



Svxbfamily Dasypogoninse. 



C H R Y s o p o G o N, Rocler. 



This genus is distinguished by a stout spine on each 

 side of the thorax, and antennae with the third antenna! 

 joint rounded and without a style ; the only other genus 

 with similar thoracic spines is Op><eof<fIenais, containing a 

 single West Australian sjjecies, which is distingushed by the 

 pointed antennal style, and differently formed moustache. 



Nine Australian species have so far been described, 

 and two others are now added, one of these being from 

 New South Wales, the other from Victoria. 



Chrysopogon pallidipennis, Sp. nov. 



Mo'ustache white ; faice yellow, with a. black median 

 strijae ; antennse yellow ; thora.s: and abdomen red-brown, 

 the fourth and fifth abdominal segments with pale hind- 

 margins ; legs entirely yellow ; wings tinged faintly with 

 brown. 



Length. Female, 11 mm. 



Hah. Sydney, N.S.W. 



Female. Face bright yellow, with a broad black 



median stripe, which extends from the antennae to the 

 moustache; moustache consisting of a single row of white 

 bristles. Antennae yellow, the third joint a little darker 

 than th© first and second, and with the apex darkened; 

 all joints axe slender, the third being hardly broader 

 than the first, and of uniform breadth throughout ; first 

 and second joints with a few short inconspicuous bristles. 

 Thorax red-brown, with the neck and sides yellow ; an- 

 terior, lateral, and posteirior margins marked with white 



[The manuscript of this paper was found amonsr Mr. AVhite's 

 papers after his death, and was forwarded to the Society by tiie 

 author's brother and executor. The MS. was apparently only a tirst 

 draft which the author intended to rewrite before publication. Ttie 

 Editor has, however, felt at liberty to correct only obvious clerical 

 errors, and the paper, therefore, appears without the advantage of 

 final revision by the author.] 



