the Asilidfe of Australasia. 143 



Head wider than thorax-. 



Face covered with pale golden tomentum, Hat^ raised at 

 oral opening almost as a tubercle, on which the pale yellow 

 bristles forming the moustache are placed. Palpi reddish 

 yellow, with loug pale yellow hairs. Proboscis long. Beard 

 "white. Antenna reddish yellow : the Hrst two joints with 

 thick black hairs; the second slightly the longest; the third 

 club-shaped, hardly longer than the first two joints together. 

 Forehead darker than face, with six long black bristles on 

 the ocelligerous tubercle. Hind part of head with bristle- 

 like yellow hairs. Thorax greenish grey, with greyish-yellow 

 tomentum, with three black bristles above the transverse 

 suture at sides and numerous ones beyond ; breast-sides 

 paler in colour ; prothorax well developed ; scutellum armed 

 with two black bristles. Abdomen blackish, with narrow 

 dull reddish posterior borders to segments ; sides of dorsum 

 yellowish, grey tomentum on anterior borders and at sides 

 of segments ; pubescence very scanty, short, yellowish ; 

 ovipositor prominent below. 



LeffS reddish yellow ; hind tarsi and apices of tibiae black ; 

 femora devoid of bristles, tibiaj and tarsi with strong yellow 

 ones. M'inys hyaline, greyish at apex ; veins brown, the 

 small transverse vein situated just beyond the middle of 

 discal cell ; the first posterior cell slightly narrower at border, 

 the fourth closed far from border ; anal cell very much 

 narrowed at border, but open. 



Saropogon, Loew. 



Linn. Ent. ii. p. 439 (1847). 



For species from New Zealand see Hutton, Trans. New 

 Zealand Inst, xxxiii. p. 18 (1900), et p. 195 (1901). 



The species as yet recorded from the Australasian Region 

 are confined to Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, 

 viz. : — 



Saropogon sergius, Walker, List Dipt. ii. p. 347 \_Dasypogon\ (1849), et 



vi. Suppl. 2, p. 477 [I)asi/pogo7i] (1854) ; Kertesz, Oat. Dipt. p. 73 



[^Lasiopogoii] (1909). — Dnsyiiof/onfestinans, cJ , Walker, Dipt. Saund. 



i. p. 92 (1851), et List Dipt. v'i. Suppl. 2, p. 405 (1854). 

 Saropogon viduus, Walker, List Dipt. ii. p. 354 et vi. Suppl. 2, p. 483 



\_l)asypogo7i\ (1849) ; Hutton, Trans. I<ew Zealand Inst, xxxiii. p. 19 



(1901). 

 Saropogon discus, Walker, List Dipt. ii. p. 358 (1849), et vi. Suppl. 2, 



p. 483 [^Dasypogon] (1854) ; Hutton, Trans. New Zealand Inst, xxxiii. 



p. 19 (]901). — Saropogon hudsoni, Hutton, /. c. p. 20. 

 Saropogon suavis. Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, n. ser. iv. p. 327 



[Dasypogon] (1857) ; Kertesz, Cat. Dipt. p. 132 [Uasi/pogon] (1857). 



— Dasypogon yamaras, Walker, List Dipt. ii. p. 346 (1849), et y'l. 



Suppl. 2, p. 486 (1854) ; Kertesz, Cat. Dipt. p. 73 lLasiopogo7i] (1909). 



