the Asilida3 of Australasia. 431 



wide, tlie lourtli closed, the anal cell closed some way from 

 the border ; the small trausverse vein is situated about the 

 middle of the discal cell ; veins black at base and on fore 

 border, then reddish. Halteres black. 



Female identical. Ovipositor blackish, [o\\<^, includingtlio 

 sixth and seventh segments, compressed at sides. 



Neoitamus, Osten-Sackcu. 



Cat. Dipt. N. Amor. ed. 2, pp. 82 & 235 (1878) 



Itamus, Loew, Liuu. Ent. iv. p. 81 (1849), prooocc. Schmidt, Goeb. 

 Coll., 1846. 



The following species are recorded from Australia, 

 Tasmania, and New Zealand : — 



Neoitamus varius, Walker. List Dipt. ii. p. A^i7 (1849), etpt. vii. Suppl. 3, 



p. 742 \_Asilus\ (183.'3) ; llutton, Trans. New Z. Inst, xxxiii. 



p. 22 [Itamus] {l90\).—Asi/iis fraterniis (? females only), Macq., 



Dipt. E.\ot. Suppl. i, p. 219 (1844) J v. d. Wulp, Sumatra Exp. 



Dipt. p. 25 [Itamtisl (1881). Asilia: bulbus, Walker, var. B, Lisf 



Dijit. pt. ii. p. 466 (1S49). Itamus mdanopogon, Schiner, ' Novara ' 



Reise, Dipt. p. 190 (1868). 

 Neoitamus mistipes, Macq., Dipt. Exot. Suppl. iv. p. 308, pi. ix fio- ,3 



[Asilus'] (1849). 

 Neoitamus bulbus, Walker, List l>ipt. ii. p. 465 [Asilus'] (1849), et vii. 



Suppl. 3,. p. 743 [Adlus] ( 1855). — Itatnns iufjuisitor, Nowicki, Mem. 



d. Krakauer k.-k. Akad. d. Wiss. ii. p. 21 [Itamus] (1875), et Deitr. 



z. Keatuiss d. Dipt. Fauna Neu Seelands, 21 [Itamus] (1875). 

 Neoitamus plauiceps, Schiner, ' Novara ' Reise, Dipt. p. 189 [Xtamtis] 



(1808). 

 Neoitamus hyalipennis, sp. n. 



The synonymy of these species here given differs con- 

 siderably from that given by Keitesz in liis Cat. Di[)t., but 

 I believe, from the examination of Walker's types, this will 

 prove correct. 



Asilus sydneyensis does not belong to this genus. 



Neoitamus varius^ Walker. 



Asilus fraternus, Macq. (females only). 

 Asilus bulbus, Walker, var. B. 

 Itamus mdanopogon, Schiner, 



Macquart's type (male) and his original series of spcciinens 

 of females seen in Paris Museum, 12. 4. 11, from Tasmania. 

 The females were identical in all respects with a specimen of 

 Walkcr^s Asiluii varius which I took for comparison ; the male 

 and another male specimen were identical, with the exception 

 of the genitalia, which were not so swollen and large, but 

 more long oval, and the white hairs on abdomen were not 



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