the AsiliJje of Australasia. 421 



vein docs not curve towards the anterior border auytliing 

 like so mucli, it ends just at the apex of wing ; no appendix, 

 but the rudiment of one is present. 



]\[acquart describes it thus : — 



Black. Abdomen ( J j black, the three apical segments 

 silvery. Legs red ; femora and posterior tarsi black. 



Length Og lines. S • 



Forehead and face with whitish tomentum ; nioustaehe 

 black, mixed with white. Beard white. Antennae black. 

 Thorax anteriorly reddish grey, posteriorly slate-coloured, 

 with black stripes and a black triangular spot on the poste- 

 rior border. Abdomen whitish at the sides. Legs with 

 black bristles, femora and. the anterior and intermediate 

 tibiae with white hairs ; posterior tibiae black at apex. 

 Wings a little brownish, dilated ; the second submarginal 

 cell with a very short appendix. 



From the Solomon Islands, Port Praslin. M. Durville. 

 Paris ]\Iusenm. 



Alacquart also described, in Suppl. i. p. 210, a female from 

 Sydney Island, Oceania, which he suggested might be the 

 female of this species. 



Ei-a,v varymystaceus, Macquart. 



Described as having abdomen black, with sides and seg- 

 mentations ashy grey. Thorax ashy grey, with black stripes. 

 hi'gs black, tibiae testaceous. Wings with an appendix. 



Length 7 lines. $ . 



From New South Wales. 



Subgenera o/Asilus. 



AVilliston in his 1908 edition of ' Manual of N. American 

 Diptera ' considered many of the subdivisions of the old 

 genus Asilus very vague and often not based on true generic 

 characters, and placed them in his table of genera as sub- 

 genera. Prof. Hine in '' llobbcrfiics of the Genus Asi/us,'^ 

 Ann. Ent. Soc. America, ii. no. 2, pp. 136-172, follows 

 W^illiston. 



Glaphyropyga, Schiuer. 

 Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xvi. p. G74 (1860). 



There are only two species recorded in this genus — 

 G. himayitocerus, Wied., from Brazil, for which Schiner 

 formed the genus, and G. avstralasics, Schiner, 'Novara^ 

 Reise, Dipt. p. 187 (1866), from Australia. 



