ihe Asilida} of Australasia, 415 



^vitli a row of black bristly hairs each side and some yellow 

 liairs. Hind part of head armed with very stout black 

 bristles. Thorax black, with j^rcy tomentum ; two black 

 bristles above base of wings, four or more below, and others 

 on posterior border of thorax, intermixed with black hairs ; 

 sides Avith grey tomentum and white pubescence. Scutellum 

 as thorax, armed with a double row of bristles. Abdonun 

 black, with narrow ashy-grey segmentations on the first four 

 segments, uniting with the ashy grey sides, the pubescence 

 pale yellow or white; the last three segments narrow, wholly 

 black ; the ovipositor black, as long as the last segment ; 

 underside ashy grey, with long white pubescence. Legs red, 

 the femora largely black, only red below, the apices of the 

 tibia? and the tarsi wholly black ; all the numerous bristles 

 are black, pubescence on femora and tibise whitish, on coxse 

 white and long. Wings hyaline tinged with pale brown, the 

 streak in first submaj'ginal cell large and distinct ; veins 

 fulvous, the small transverse vein on basal third of discal 

 cell. 



Male. — Hairs intermixed in moustache are more numerous 

 and pale golden yellow. Antenna with some fulvous thick 

 pubescence on lower side of first joint ; the third joint with 

 long terminal bristle. Beard and hairs on legs same colour 

 as hairs of moustache. Abdomen narrower, the ashy-grey 

 colour being replaced by the same golden-yellow colour 

 present on all the posterior borders and sides of segments ; 

 genital organs black, prominent ; red colour of legs more 

 inclining to yellow. 



Promachus doddi, ? , sp. u. 



Type ( ? ) from Townsville, Queensland (F. P. Dodd), and 

 type ((^) and another and a female from Endeavour River, 

 Queensland, in ^Iv. Frenches Coll., and other females from 

 Burpengary, Queensland (Bancroft). 



A large species with black oblong spots on the greyish 

 abdomen reaching the anterior border of segments, but not 

 attaining the side borders ; legs reddish, with white pubes- 

 cence, and moustache yellowish white. 



Length, S 25, ? 27 mm. (without ovipositor). 



Face black, covered with whitish tomentum ; the moustache 

 above oral opening consists of strong yellowish bristles and 

 some fine hairs intermixed, which latter are continued up 

 middle of face to base of antennae. Palpi in (^ with a few 

 long black bristles at the apex and whitish-yellow bristle-like 

 hairs below, in the ? wholly whitish vellow. Beard 



