the Aii\\'i(]od of Australasia. 435 



black raoustaclic. Leffs stout, armed with many bristles. 

 Tibiae only yellow at their base. 



Length, ^ IG, ? 20 mm. 



Ma/e. — Face covered with grey tomentum ; the tubercle 

 large, black ; the moustache composed of many black bristly 

 hairs, with white ones below and in the middle. Heard 

 white. Antennai black, the black hairs on the first two joints 

 thick and long. Hind part of head at vertex with black 

 hairs, curled upwards, elsewhere white. Thorax black, with 

 grey tomentum and black stripes, the dorsum with black 

 pubescence, rather approaching in their arrangement species 

 of Dijsmachus ; black bristles at sides strong and numerous, 

 posteriorly the black hairs are long and bristly. Scutetlum 

 with short whitish pubescence and four weak, long, yellow 

 bristles on its posterior border. Abdomen blackish, with 

 grey tomentum at sides ; dorsum with short white hairs ; 

 segmentations with grey tomentum, sides with longer white 

 hairs. Genitalia black, shining, long, club-shaped, Avith 

 black pubescence. Legs black ; coxae with grey tomentum 

 and long white hairs ; fore femora with long blackish hairs 

 below, shorter ones above intermixed with white ones, the 

 middle pair with short black pubescence and strong black 

 bristles below and at apex, the hind pair with shorter black 

 bristles below ; tibiae yellow at base, the fore tibise with long 

 black hairs below and shorter ones above and with stout 

 black bristles, the others the same, but with no long black 

 hairs ; tarsi with black bristles, fore tibise at apex and meta- 

 tarsi with short yellowish pubescence below. Wings clear, 

 veins black ; second posterior cell wide at its base, the vein 

 closing fourth posterior convex ; the small transverse vein 

 situated on two-thirds of discal cell. 



Female identical. Ovipositor as in A^. mistipes. 



The species of Neoitamus from other parts of the Austra- 

 lasian Region (not Australia) are Neoitamus griseus, Wied , 

 involutus, and longistylus, Wlk., from New Guinea and else- 

 where. Neoitamus melanopygus and spinicauda, v. d. VVulp, 

 from Celebes. 



Neoitamus involutus, Walker. 



Pror. Linn. Soc. v. p. 281 iAstlus] (1861), et vi. p. 7 [Asilm] (1862) ; 



Ost.-Sack., Ann. Mas. Civ. OJenova, xvi. p. 42y [Itamts] (1»82). 

 Asilus nonnalis, \yalker, Proc. Linn. Soc. London, vi. p. 18 (1862). 



These two types appear identical. 



The types of normalis, male and female, come from 

 Ternate ; the specimens, females, of involutus from Ternate 

 and Gilolo. 



