the Asillda3 of Australasia. 355 



made no mention of tliem in his description ; they appear to 

 me identical with the ahove. The type of Dasypoijon auri- 

 facies, Macquart, a male, was seen by me in the Paris 

 Museum, 12. 4. 11, and is a species of Thereutria identical 

 with Thereutria amaracus, \A'alker. 



The drawing of the wiv^ by Maoquart, pi. vi. fig. 5, is 

 incorrect, the submarginal cell should be closed not open, 

 and the small transverse vein is beyond the middle of the 

 discal celh Type has the moustache bUick, two female 

 specimens with it have it yellow. Antennae now wanting, 

 except the first two joints, which are black with black 

 pubescence. Le^^s reddish ; the tibiae pale yellow with black 

 apices, the anterior pair with curved spine, no black stripe 

 on the femora. 



From New^ S. Wales. 



Macquart^s description precedes the one of D. diversicolor, 

 which apparently is the same species. Bigot, who had the 

 type before him, declared it to be a species of Thereutria. 



Loew's species is no doubt identical, judging from the 

 description. Scundon compacta was declared to be identical 

 Avith it by Schiuer; the type is not to hand. The type of 

 T)asypogon diversipes, Kirby, is a female from Sidney, New 

 S. Wales. 



Laphria diversipes, Macq., was described from Sidney 

 Island, Oceania, and is evidently the same as T. amaracus. 

 Mr. Froggatt describes it as being a common insect about 

 Sidney, often taken on fences. 



The specimen, a female, described by Bigot as T. caligula, 

 appears to be an example of this species, as the only 

 difference in the short description is the mention of the 

 upper side of femora being black; in one of the specimens 

 in the Brit. Mus. Coll. of T. amaracus there is a black stripe, 

 very short however, beginning at the apex. Bigot gave 

 Australia as the locality. 



The species may be identified by the almost wholly reddish- 

 yellow legs^ the femora being testaceous, the tibise yellow, 

 only their apices, the coxse, and tarsi being black. Abdomen 

 blue-black, with the typical white side spots ou the second 

 to fifth segments. Wings with the first posterior cell rather 

 narrow, narrower at the border, the fourth open at border 

 but narrowed, the anal cell closed at border ; the males 

 mentioned al)0ve have the moustache black, in the females it 

 is yellow^, otherwise males aud females seem identical. 



Thereutria pulchr a, Schiner. 



Described from one male specimen, from New S. Wales. 



