tlic Asilitl;o of Auslralasla. 4-47 



The followinji; species not known to nic must remain in 

 Asihs in sensu lata for the present : — 



Asilus acutam/nlalus, annatus, anstroUs, cojpudus, ferrii- 

 gineiventris, JU'ifera, Jfuli'ipuhescens, lonyiventrla^ niyrlnus, 

 ruficoxatus, rnfomeluiarsns, scli femoral us, oittipes, i\Iaoc|. ; 

 belzebul, Wied. (v. d. Wulp eoiild not find this type in the 

 Lcyden jNIiiseum ; Wiedemann described it from unknown 

 locality, l)ut later Mae([uart recorded a male he thought was 

 a specimen of this species from New South Wales) ; regius, 

 Jaennicke ; smil/iii, Ilutton. 



Asilus crabroiiiforjiiis, L., in Kcrtesz's Cat., has Tasmania 

 jiiven witii a query as one ofthe localities in which it occurs; 

 hut this is probably an error on the part of ^Vall^er (see 

 Yerrall, 'British FliVs/ vol. v. p. 649, 1909). 



The following Walker types from Australia and Van 

 Diemen's Land are not to be found in the Brit. Mus. Coll., 

 and siiould be expunged from any future list : — 



Asilus elicitns. 

 Asilus alicis. 

 Asilus luctificus. 

 Asilus alligans. 



The following types from unknown localities are also not 

 to be found : — Asilus eanes, halmus, and iimnibratus, 



Asilus antiorus and corytlms are species of the* genus 

 Pructacanthus. 



The following types of Walker cannot be placed in their 

 correct genus, owing to their imperfect condition ; all, with 

 the exception of Asilus alcetus, are small species which will 

 not belong to Asilus in sensu stricto. 



Asilus obumbratus, Walker, 

 Dipt. Saund.p. 145 (1851), et List Dipt. vii. Suppl. .3, p. 735 (1855). 



Type (female) from New South Wales (Saunders Coll.) 

 seems allied to the genus Cenlistus, but the ovipositor ends 

 in a fork. It is a small black species with apparently dull 

 yellow legs. 



Asilus alcetus, Walker. 



List Dipt. ii. p. 425 (1819), et vii. Suppl. 3, p. 736 (1855). 



f Asilus trachalus, Walker, Dipt. Saund. i. p, 143 (1851), et I.e. p. 738. 



This type is from Van Diemen's I^and {R. Buller), in bad 

 preservation, A n^edium-sized greyish-black species. 



