the Asilidae of Australasia. 1-^9 



wing with an appendix and the first posterior cell narrowed 

 at opening, the fourth and anal cell closed. The legs are 

 stout and hairy, more especially the hind tarsi and apex of 

 hind tibiae ; the curious prolongation of middle tibiae is 

 short, armed with very stout short spines on outer border, 

 and on iuner border with thick hairs. 



CoDULA, Macquart. 

 Dipt. Exot. Suppl. 4, p. 374 (1849). 



This genus, formed by the autlior for C. Umbipennis from 

 New South Wales, is allied to his genus Brachyrrhopola, to 

 which his second species of Codida belongs, but it is at once 

 distinguished by the absence of the curved spine on fore 

 tibife, the moustache is composed of fewer hairs and con- 

 fined to the oral opening, and the abdomen is stouter and 

 shorter. With Macquart's second species and one placed 

 by Bigot in this genus transferred to Brachijrrhopola, only 

 Macquart's typical species and one nearly allied to it remain 

 in the genus. 



Codula limbipeimis, Macq., Dqit. Exot. Suppl. 4, p. 374, pi. vii. figf. 2 



(1849). 

 Codula vespiformis, Thorns., Eiigen. Resa, Diptera, p. 464 (1SG9). 



Codida Umbipennis , IMacquart. 



Type S seen in Paris Museum by me, from E. Australia. 

 A species with a stout club-shaped abdomen, black and 

 yellow in colouring. Wings deep brown on fore border. 



Face black, covered with bright yellow tomentum, leaving 

 a black stripe in the middle. Moustache composed of five 

 or six long yellow bristly hairs. Palpi black, with black 

 pubescence. Antenna long, the third joint twice as long as 

 the first two together, yellow. Thorax black with dull 

 yellowish tomentum, two bright orange spots above the 

 shoulders. Abdomen black, with bright orange tomentum 

 beginning from the posterior border of the third segment, 

 the fourth entirely black in the centre, the other segments 

 Avholly covered with the bright orange tomentum ; under- 

 side black, with two orange-coloured segmentations only. 

 Legs black, knees and hind tibise yellow. Wings clear, deep 

 brown on the fore border, extending through both basal 

 cells, then in a straight line to the apex, bordered by the 

 third vein, not extending beyond its first forked branch. 



Macquart's description is as follows : — 



Thorax black. Abdomen red. Legs black ; tibiae red. 



