the Asilida3 of Australasia. 155 



tomentura ; inidei'side 1)lackish. Legs armed witli bristles, 

 ■\vliicli are black, on the fore tarsi some yellow ones ; coxie 

 red, with white tomentum and long white hairs and one 

 black bristle below ; femora black above, with white pubes- 

 cence, below red, with long white hairs ; tibiae yellowish red 

 on the outside, black ou the inside, with white pubescence ; 

 underside of fore tarsi with yellow pubescence ; tarsi reddish, 

 covered with white pubescence. JVings hyaline, brownish 

 at apex and on posterior border; the small transverse vein 

 oblique, about the middle of the discal cell ; the fourth 

 posterior cell and the anal closed ; the transverse veins 

 closing the discal and fourth posterior cell are not quite in 

 a straight line. Halteres reddish yellow. 



StenopogoNj Loew. 

 Linn. Ent. ii. p. 453 (1847). 



The genus is distinguished by the very narroAv/ace, with 

 a keel-shaped tubercle, the face becoming narrower still at 

 antennae, the moustache reaching nearly to the antennse. 

 Wings with the first posterior cell more or less narrower at 

 border, the fourth closed or open. In the Australian species 

 the front posterior cell is hardly narrower at border. 



The following species are recorded from Australia : — 



Stenopogon elongatiis, Macq., Dipt. Exot. Siippl. 1, p. 194, pi. vii. fig. 6 

 (lS44), et Suppl. 2, p. 50 [ Das;/pof/on'j (1846). — DasypcHjoyiJlavifacies, 

 Macq., I. c. Snppl. 4, p. 368, pi. vi. fifi-. 6 (1849). Dasi/jioqon digentia, 

 cJ, WalL-er, List Dipt. pt. ii. p. 316 (1819), et part vi. Suppl. 2, 

 p. 480 (1854); Kertesz, Cat. Dipt. p. 101 [Ancijlorrhynclms'] (1909). 

 Dasypngon lanatus, 9> Walker, I.e. p. 317, et part vi. Suppl. 2, 

 p. 486 (1854) ; Kertesz, I. c. [A7tci/Iorrhi/nchns] (1909). Dasypoqon 

 thaJpiiis, c?, Walker, I. c. p. 317, et part vi. Suppl. 2, p. 481 ("1854) ; 

 Kertesz, /. c. [^Ancylorrhynchns] (1909). Dasypogon agave, Walker, 

 /. c. p. 317, et pt. vi. Suppl. 2, p. 480 (1854). Sienopoqonfratertms, 

 Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (5) viii. p. 421 (1878). 



Stenopogon iiicoteles, S, Walker, List Dipt. pt. ii. p. 320 ('1849), et 

 pt. vi. Suppl. 2, p. 481 \_Dasy2)ogo7{] (1854); Kertesz, Cat. Dipt. 

 p. 102 \_A7icijlon-kynchus] (1909). 



Stenojjogon elongatus, Macq. 



Dasypogon finvi fades, 5 , Macq. 

 Dasypogon digentia, cS , Walker. 

 Daspogon lanatus, $ , Walker. 

 Dasypogo7i tludpius, J , Walker. 

 Dasypogon agave, J , Walker. 

 Stenopogon fratermis. Bigot. 



