54 AUSTRALIAN BOMBYLIID.K AND CYRTID^ (DIPI^ERA), 



Oncodocera %>lana, Walker. 



Anthrax plana, Walker, List Dipt. B.M., ii,. 1849, p. 272. 



Id., Walker, Ins. Saund. Dipt., 1852, p. 168. 



Oncodocera tendens, Walker. 

 Ayithrax tendens, Walker, List Dipt. B.M., ii., 1849, p. 271. 

 Id., Walker, Ins. Saund. Dipt., 1852, p. 168. 

 Hab. — Six specimens from Perth, Western Australia, 

 were collected during or about December, 1911. 



Genus Comptosia, Macquart. (PI. XVI., fig. 4; PI. XVII., 

 fig. 12.) 



Comptosia, Macquart, Dipt. Exot., ii. (1), 1840, p. 80. Id., 



White, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1916, p. 201. 

 Neuria, Newman, Entom., i., 1840, p. 220. 

 Ligyra, Newman, Entom., i., 1840, p. 220. Id., Becker, Ann. 



Mus. Zool. St. Petersb., xvii., 1912, p. 466, fig. 

 Alyosia, Rondani, Arch, per la Zool., iii., 1863, p. 54. Id., 



Becker, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb., xvii., 1912, 



p. 465. 

 Synonymy. — The type of genus Comptosia is C. fasci- 

 pennis, Macquart, which is queried from Monte Video; and 

 is supposed to have a white uniformly wide subapical band, 

 three posterior cells, and an appendix. In Dr. Ferguson's 

 collection, a specimen of C. lateralis, Newman, was identified 

 by White as C. fascipennis, Macquart. and in accordance 

 with the somewhat doubtful type locality this specimen must 

 remain on record under the type specific name until the 

 point of doubt concerning the locality can be settled. 



The type of the genus Neuria is N. lateralis, Newman, 

 from Sydney. 



Newman placed Anthrax homhyUformis, Macleay, and 

 Anthrax silvanus, Fabricius, under the genus Ligyra, and 

 the former he gives as the representative. Macleay's species 

 is placed here under the genus Hyperalonia, and Fabricius's 

 species is apparently a large form of the species well known 

 under the name C. corculum; Rondani gives the Chilian 

 species, L. luguhris, Rondani, as the type species of Ligyra, 

 and in this is followed by Becker. 



The genus Alyosia, Rondani, is represented by the Tas- 

 manian species C. maculipennis, Macquart, for the type. 



For the purpose of this paper these genera cannot be 

 accepted, and, indeed, considerable further study will be 



