the AsiliiliC of Australasia. 413 



Telejoneuroy Rond., Archivio per la Zool. iii. p. 48 (1803). 

 Tnipanea, Macq., Dipt. Exot. i. (!') p. 207 (1838) [prseocc. Schrank, 

 Dipt. 1803J. 



The following species have been described as from Aus- 

 tralia and Tasmania : — 



Promachus grandis, Macq., Dipt. Exot. i. (2) p. 217 [Trupnnea] (1838). 

 rromachus clausus, Macq., /. c. Suppl. i. p. 208 \TruiHinea'] (1840). 

 Proiuachus tasiuauen^is, Macq., /. c. Suppl. ii, p. '>;"» I'J'ntjHim'a] (1847). 

 rromachus rufipes, Macq., /. c. Suppl. iii. p. 186 [Trujjanea] (1847). 



To these species is now added : — 



Promachus iiiterponens, Walkei', Proc. Linu. Soc. London, v. p. 280 

 [Trupanea] (1861), described from I. liatjau, but now found in N.E. 

 Queensland. 



Promachus doddi, sp. n, 



Promachus jloccosus, Kirby, Trans, Ent. Soc. London, 1884, 

 p. 273 (1884); Hutton, Trans. New Zealand Instit. xxxiii. 

 p. 21 nota (1901), was omitted by Hudson from his list of 

 New Zealand Diptera, as he believed there was a mistake in 

 the locality and that the type came from Opobo, W. Africa 

 there being no such place iu New Zealand. The type, a 

 male, is labelled " Opabo, New Zealand, H. W. Marsden, 

 1880," and is apparently a specimen of Promachus fasciatus, 

 Fabr. 



Promachus grandis, Macquart. 



Type, seen by me in Paris Museum, 12. 4. 11, in a very 

 bad state; abdomen almost w^ioUy destroyed. 



Macquart describes it thus : — 



Black; face and moustache yellow; beard white. Tibiie 

 chestnut-coloured. AVings brown. 



Length 12 lines. 



Epistome bordered with black bristles. Forehead with 

 brownish tomentum. Thorax (denuded), sides with brownish 

 tomentum. Abdomen with indistinct blue reflections • sex 

 indistinguishable, owhig to its state. Tibire and tarsi with 

 yellow tomentum below. Wings with violet reflections. 



From New South Wales. 



But the type I saw has the ivings greyish, veins yellow, 

 with a pale streak on the fore border, the fourth posterior 

 cell closed, the small transverse vein situated at the middle 

 of diseal cell. Face broad, covered with golden- vellow 

 tomentum and some yellow hairs at sides. Moustache of 

 yellow bristly hairs reaching halfway up the face, below at 

 the sides there are stout black bristles. Palpi with black 



