the Asilldoe of Australasia. 431 



M idc, the fourth closed, the anal cell closed some way from 

 the ])ordor ; the small transverse vein is situated about the 

 middle of the discal cell ; veins black at base and ou fore 

 border, then reddish, llalteres black. 



Female identical. Ovipositor blackish, lonjr, including tlio 

 sixth and seventh segments, compressed at sides. 



Neoitamus, Osten-Sackeu. 

 Cat. Dipt. N. Amer. od. 2, pp. 82 & 235 (1878) 



Itamns, Loew, Linn. Eat. iv. p. 81 (1849), prajocc. Schmidt, Goeb 

 CoU., 1846. 



The following species are recorded from Australia, 

 Tasmania, and New Zealand : — 



Neoitamus varius.Wallcor. List Dipt. ii. p. 4")7 (1849), etpt. vii. Suppl. 3, 

 p. 742 [Asilus\ (183-j) ; Ilutton, Trans. New Z. Inst. xx.\iii. 

 p. 22 [Itamus] (\'^Q\).—Asilus fratermis (? females only), Macq., 

 Dipt. Exot. Suppl. i. p. 219(1844); v. d. Wulp, Sumatra Exp. 

 Dipt. p. 25 [Itamns] (1881). Asiluf, bidbus. Walker, var. V,, List 

 Dipt. pt. ii. p. 466 (1849). Itamus mclcmopoyon, Schiuer, ' Novara ' 

 Reise, Dipt. p. 190 (1868). 



Neoitamus mistipes, Macq., Dipt. Exot. Suppl, iv. p. 398, pi. ix fic^ 3 

 [Asilus-] {\SA<d). 



Neoitamus bulbus, Walker, List Dipt. ii. p. 465 [Aailus] (1849), et vii. 

 Suppl. 3, p. 743 [Asilus] (1855). — Itamus inquisitor, Nowicki, Mem, 



Neoita 



(1868). 

 Neoitamus byalipennis, sp. n. 



The synonymy of these species here given differs con- 

 siderably from that given by Kertesz in his Cat. Dipt., but 

 I believe, from the examination of Walker's types, this will 

 prove correct. 



Asilus sijdneyensis does not belong to this genus. 



Neoitamus varius. Walker. 



Asilus fratenuis, Macq. (females only). 

 Asiliis bulbus, Walker, var. D. 

 Itamus mcUuiopogoii, Scliiner, 



Maequart*s type (male) and his original series of specimens 

 of females seen in Paris Museum, 12. 4. 11, from Tasmania. 

 The females were identical in all respects with a specimen of 

 W^alker^s Asilus varius which I took for comparison ; the male 

 and another male specimen were identical, with the exception 

 of the genitalia, which were not so swollen and large, but 

 more long oval, and the white hairs on abdomen were not 



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