THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SEUIE.S.] 

 No. 65. MAY 1913, 



XLIX. — A Revision of the Asilid<e of Australasia, 

 By Gertrude Uicardo. 



[Concluded from p. 425.] 



PararatuSj gen. nov. 



Allied to Aratus, v. d. Wnlp (now Neoaraius) , in having no 

 bristles on the abdomen, and in the neuration of the winy, 

 but is distinguished from it by the non-dilation of the 

 wing on its fore border in both sexes, and by the genital 

 organs, which in the male are very large and club-shaped ; 

 the ovipositor of the female is compressed at the sides, 

 bringing it thus near Neoitamus in this respect, from which, 

 however, the neuration of iving and large size of the speciqs 

 distinguish it. It is also allied to Blepharotes in the large 

 genital organs of male. From Asilus in sensu stricto it is 

 distinguished by the character of tiiese organs. 



Type and only species of genus from Victoriaj New S, 

 Wales, 



Pararatus maerostylus, Loew. 



Zeitschr. f. d. ges. Naturwiss. N. F. x. (xliv.) p. 75 {Blejyhc.rotes) 

 (1874). 



One male and one female in Brit. ^NIus. Coll. from 

 Champion Bay, W. Aiistralia {Du Boulay). Four males 

 from ^lallce District, Victoria, in j\Ir. French's coll. 



Loew divided this species off from Blepharotes coriarius, 

 stating he had often seen specimens of both species iu 



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