440 Miss G. Ricardo — ^4 Bevision of 



basal segments nearly meet in the middle; sides of abdomen 

 with yellow bristles on posterior border of each segment ; 

 underside brownish, with pale yellow pubescence; ovipositor 

 of female distinct ; genital organs of male blackish. Legs 

 red ; coxae, knees, and tarsi black, coxae covered with grey 

 tomentum and with yellowish pubescence ; femora with 

 short black pubescence above, and longer yellowish hairs 

 below, bristles chiefly black ; tibiae with short black and 

 velloAv pvibescence, the latter, more fulvous in colour, as a 

 thick short fringe on the underside of tore pair, all are 

 swollen at apex, bristles black ; tarsi with black bristles and 

 pubescence, with fulvous pubescence on the underside of the 

 basal joints of fore pair. Wings hyaline, tinged yellowish, 

 grey at the apex, veins reddish ; neuration as in Neoaratus 

 hercides, but the costa is not produced outwardly in either 

 sex ; small cross-vein is at about the middle of the discal 

 cell. 



AsUus murinus, Macq. 



Type seen in Paris Museum, 12. 4. 11. 



In Brit. ^lus. Coll. a male and two females, from New 

 South Wales. 



Macquart's description is as follows : — 



Greyish. Legs red ; tarsi black. 



Length, c? 9, ? 10 lines. 



Face and forehead whitish yellow ; moustache white, only 

 occupying the lower part of face ; a few black bristles below. 

 Beard white. Thorax yellowish, with the intermediate 

 stripe divided. Abdomen of a somewhat reddish grey, with 

 white bristles j genital organs, ^ and $ , black. Knees 

 slightly black. AVings hyaline, a little yellowish, at apex 

 greyish. From New S. Wales. Paris Museum. 



A dusky dull-coloured species with red Jegs. Face covered 

 with greyish tomentum, tubercle prominent. Moustache 

 composed of many stout yellowish or white bristles with 

 black ones above. The first two joints of antenncB black, 

 with black bristly pubescence. Forehead a little darker 

 than face, with black hairs. Thorax blackish, Avith yellow to- 

 mentose stripes and markings. Pubescence on dorsum black. 

 Scutellum covered with grey pubescence, some stout black 

 bristles on posterior border. Abdomen black, covered with 

 olive-coloured tomentum and with some appressed yellowish 

 puljescence ; hairs at sides yellowish ; the eighth segment of 

 abdomen deep black, with some black hairs ; ovipositor very 

 small ( ? ) ; in the male the eighth segment is hidden or very 



