the AsilMa} of Australasia. 433 



and tlie first joint of fore tarsi is brown-yellow. The ovi- 

 positor he mentioned as including the last three segments of 

 abdomen, and being shining black. 



Neoitamus misiipes, jNIacquart. 



Type, a female, seen in Paris Mnsenm, 12.4. 11. A male 

 specimen I took for comparison is identical with this type ; 

 the bristles on the legs are more largely white in the male 

 than in the female type, which has only a few white ones on 

 the middle and posterior femora. 



In Brit. Mns. Coll. 



Male and female from Mt. Gambler, S. Australia {W. 

 Wesc/ie), 1905, and another male and female from same 

 locality. 



A blackish species ; the abdomen, especially in the male, 

 covered with yellowish tomentum ; tibiie yellowish, femora 

 yellow below ; bristles on the legs chiefly yellow. Wings 

 hyaline. 



Length 14 mm. 



Male. — Face covered with pale yellow tomentum, the 

 tubercle distinct ; moustache composed of weak yellowish- 

 white bristles and two black longer ones above. Beard 

 white. Antenncp. blackish, the first two joints with black 

 hairs, the third joint conical with a long terminal arista. 

 Forehead brown, with black hairs at the sides. Hind part 

 of head with dull yellow hairs. Thorax blackish brown, 

 covered with yellowish tomentum, two median and a lateral 

 interrupted stripe on each side black ; shoulders covered with 

 ashy-grey tomentum ; between the median and lateral stripes 

 long blackish hairs, shorter ones on anterior part of thorax ; 

 sides and posterior part of thorax with stout black bristles.. 

 Scittellum covered with ashy-grey tomentum ; two weak, 

 yellow, long bristles on its posterior border. Abdomen 

 blackish brown, besides the yellowish tomentum, which is 

 most apparent on the sides, the dorsum is covered with very 

 short yellow hairs ; first segment with a fringe posteriorly of 

 yellow hairs; sides of segmentations with yellow bristles^ 

 often continued along posterior border of segment, sides 

 with short yellow hairs. Genital organs black, shining, 

 large, club-shaped. Legs black, the underside of all femora 

 and the tibiffi for two-thirds of their length yellow ; the 

 coxae covered with grey tomentum and with long white hairs ; 

 femora with long white hairs below ; tibiae with some long 

 weak yellow bristles on their outer borders, the bristles on 

 tarsi yellow, ((m^s clear; veins brown, the small transverse 



