the Asllitlte of Australasia. 417 



P. alb'icauda, Wulp, calorificus, concolor, Wlk., from 

 Celebes. 



The type of Promachus bifasciatus, a female from Java, 

 seen by me in Paris Museum, 12. 4. 11; the supposition that 

 P. strenua, Wlk., is the same is correct. 



Philodicus, Loew. 

 l.iiiii. Eut. iii. p. 391 (1848). 

 The only species recorded from the Australasian Region is 



Philodicus canescens, Walker. 



List Dipt. vii. Suppl. 3, p. 008 [Trupanea] (185-3); Kertesz, Cat, 

 Dipt. p. 218 [Fromaehus] (1909). 



Type ( ? ) from New Holland. 



A blackish species, with grey posterior borders on abdo- 

 minal segments. JFings clear. 



Length 21 mm. 



Face covered with silvery-grey tomentum. Moustache of 

 long yellow hairs. Palpi brown, with whitish hairs. Beard 

 yellowish white. Antennae black, the third joint wanting. 

 Forehead Avith yellowish hairs at sides. Hind part of head 

 with stout yellowish bristles and with white hairs. Thorax 

 brownish, with grey tomentum on shoulders and sides, two 

 narrow dark stripes on centre of dorsum, pubescence black ; 

 sides and breast with silvery-white tomentum ; two stout 

 black bristles above base of wings and numerous ones on 

 posterior part of thorax. Sculellum covered with grey 

 tomentum and with long white hairs. Abdomen long and 

 slendei', brownish black, with short greyish pubescence, the 

 posterior borders of all segments grey tomentose. Legs 

 black, with short grey pubescence, tibite yellowish, all bristles 

 black. IVings hyaline, greyish at apex ; veins fulvous, 

 small transverse vein below the middle of discal cell, fourth 

 posterior cell closed. 



Proctacanthus, ^laequart. 

 Dipt. Exot. i. (2) p. 236 (1838). 



The following species are recorded from Australia : — 



Proctacanthus diirvillei, Macq., /. c. p. 237. 



Proctacanthus spilogaster, Thorns., Eugen. Resa, Dipt. p. 469 (1869)r 



