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PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION D. 
Fam. 19. Lepripa. 
Only four species stand recorded. Three belong to Chrysopila, 
Macq., and the fourth to Lefts, Fab., both well-known genera in 
Europe and America. 
Fam. 20. ASILID®. 
Of this family one hundred and thirty-four species and thirty 
genera are recorded for Australia. The DasypoGonrna are repre- 
sented by forty-eight species, twenty-one of which are distributed 
as follows :—4athypogon, three ; Brachyrhopala, two; Cabasa, 
two; Codula, two; Damalis, one; Dioctria, one; Leptogaster, 
three ; AZicrostylum, one; Phellus, one; Saropogon, two; Steno- 
pogon, one; Plesiomma, one ; and Laparus, one. The remaining 
twenty-six species doubtfully occupy their correct genera. The 
Laphrine only fifteen species— Andrenosoma, one ; Dasyllis, one ; 
Lampria, one; Laphria, four ; Thereutria, four ; Tapinocera, one ; 
and three doubtful species. The Asi~mina# number the most, with 
seventy-one species and eleven genera— Asz/us three, Cerdistus one, 
Craspedia two, Erax six, Glaphyropyga one, Ltamus six, Ommatius 
five, Philodicus two, Proctacanthus three, Promachus two, Psecas 
one, and thirty-nine species of uncertain position. Seven of the 
genera, Brachyropala, Cabasa, Codula, Craspedia, Phellus, Psecas, 
and Zapinocera are endemic ; two, Lathypogon and Glaphyropyga, 
are only found elsewhere in South America, while 7heveutria is 
only otherwise known by an oceanic species. The rest of the 
genera are more or less completely universal in their distribution. 
See V. z.-b. G., Wien, xvi, pp. 649-722, 1866, by Dr. J. R. 
Schiner. 
Although the Asilide have been largely collected, being for 
the most part conspicuous insects, they are so numerous in this 
country that it is probable only a small proportion of the existing 
species are yet described. The family is richly represented in 
the Macleay collection. 
Fam. 21. Miparpa. 
The Australian species of this family occupy exclusively 
endemic genera. Dr. A. Gerstaecker (Ent. Zeit. Stett, 1868; 
pp. 65-103) reviewed the Midaide of the world, and placed all 
the known Australian species under three new generic names. 
Thomson (Eugenies Resa, p. 463) in the same year proposed the 
name Harmophana for two species, one of which, described by 
Macquart, Gerstaecker simultaneously placed in his own new 
genus Zyiclonus. Diochlistis contains one, Triclonus four, and 
Miltinus ten species. The Australian genus Pomacera, Macq., 
with a single species, may also be provisionally retained in 
this family. The Midaide are generally distributed over the 
country, but several of them have been described from Western 
Australia. 
