REPORT O.y J A I'ANKSK DTPTERA—COQ UILLETT. 3 1 3 



ASILUS ALBICEPS Meigen. 



AxiluH aUnceps MKUiKX, Sys. Hosch. Kiir. Zwcif. Iiih., 1820, II, i».;51U [2:^5]. 

 Aailiia caiiexvitis Wikdkmann, in Mtiijjcn'H Sys. Hescli. lOiir. Zweil". Ins., 1820,11, 



p. 336 [2r>4]. 

 Aailun alhibarhiis Zkli.kk, Ihih, 1810, ]>. (!(>. 

 AbUiih iiiidiis LoKW, Isis, 1840. ji. 548. 



One iiiiile and two tenuiU's (No. (iOO), ajjieci 11^.5 well with the descrip- 

 tions. 'IMiis species was also ori;:;inally described from l^jurope. It 

 Ix'loii^s to tiie siil)^(Mms IMiiloiiiciis. The synonymy is ac.coidinn' to 

 Dr. Loew.' 



ASILUS ATRIPES Loew. 



Aailiix (tlripcs LoKW, Noim Hciitr , 18.51, II, ]>. 1"). 



One nude and (bur females (No. (JOO), ajiieein^- well witli I he dcsciip- 

 tion jjiveii by Dr. Schiner.-' Tiiis species beloiif^s to tlu^ sub.u'enus 

 Tolmerus, and was iilso orijiinally described from Mnroi»e. 



ASILUS ANGUSTICORNIS Loew. 



AsihiH aiif/iiHliconiis Lokw, Wirii Miit. iMonutscli., 18,")8, p. 10(!. 

 Four males and six fcniides (No. (15*1), agiciiing well with the descrip- 

 tion, whicli was founded on specimens from Japan. It belonj^s t<) the 

 8ubj>enus Neoitamus. 



ASILUS VIRGATIPES, new species. 



Male and female: lilack, the halteres, under side of the fcMuora, tibiae 

 except the apices of the hind ones, and the tarsi except the last four 

 joints of the hind ones and the apices of all of the claws, yellow. Ilea^l 

 yellow i»ruinose, hairs of the mystax yellow, or mixed black and yellow, 

 those of tile antennae black, of the front and <tn the up[K'r i)art of the 

 occiput yellow or black, those on the lower part of the occiput, cheeks, 

 palpi, and proboscis yellow. Antennal style over twi(;e as long as the 

 third Joint, the latter broad lanceolate. Ilairsof upper side of the thorax, 

 except on the posterior angles, black, those in front of the suture short 

 and sparse, behind it rather long and with two rows of bristly hairs, 

 those of each end of the i)leura yellow, while the hairs of the middle aie 

 yellow, or mixed black and yellow; scutellum covered with long black 

 or yellow hairs and bearing six or eight marginal bristles. Hairs of 

 the abdomen yellow, those on the posterior margin of the first segment, 

 in the middle of segments -5 to (5 except the posterior margin of each, 

 and on the remaining portion of the abdomen except at the tip of the 

 li.VPopygium and of its anterior dorsal process, sometimes black; seg- 

 ments after the first destitute of a row of bristles in front of the posterioi 



'Linn. Ent., 1849, p. 145. M^auiia Aii,st., l)i])t., 1802, I, ]>. 155. 



