the Asilidte of Australasia. 



Bathypogon aoris, Walker. 



Hathi/pogoti asiliformis, Ijoew. 

 ? Asilus mtitillatiis, Walker. 



Type female from Adelaide (Ent. Club), other females and 

 males from IMackay, Queensland {G. Turner) (1894)^ and 

 Burpengary, Queensland {Dr. T. L. Bancroft), 1904. 



Distinguished from Batliypogon brachypterus by the 

 wholly blackish femora, and by the blackish tibiae, bristles 

 on leys chiefly yellowish, the small cross-vein of iving is 

 situated about the middle of the discal cell. 



Two of the females and one male from Queensland have 

 the femora largely reddish as in B. brachypterus, but the 

 tibise remain blackish ; perhaps eventually the two species 

 may be merged in one. 



Length 17-26 mm. 



The type of Asilus mutillatus, Walker, from Australia, 

 abdomen missing, is evidently a species of this genus, 

 apparently similar to B. aoris, with the exception of the 

 small cross-vein of wing, which is distinctly below the 

 middle of the discal cell. 



Loew suggested that his species B. asiliformis might be 

 identical with Dasypogon plumbeus, Fabr. (Ent. Syst. iv. 

 p. 382; id. Syst. Antl. p. 165 ; Wiedem. Ausszweifl. Ins. i. 

 p. 113 \_Asilus^ ; see Kertesz's Cat. for further refs.), but that 

 the description of this last is too poor to serve for recognition 

 of the species, and further concluded Dasypogon boebius, 

 Walker (List Dipt. ii. p. 333), placed in the same group as 

 Dasypogon plumbeus by Walker, might be identical ; this last 

 type is apparently destroyed, not being in the Brit. Mus. 

 Coll. From Loew's description his species is evidently 

 identical with B. aoris. The Fabriciau and Walker species 

 might well be deleted from list. 



Bathypogon pedanus, Walker. 



Type ( ? ) and another from Swan River, W. Australia 

 (Ent. Club). 



Distinguished from B. brachypterus by the wholly black 

 femora, and from B. aoris by the pale reddish tibiae ; the 

 posterior pair are darker. Thorax black, with very distinct 

 whitish-grey sides ; shoulders red. 



Length 18 mm. 



Bathypogon tesiaceoviltafus, Macq,, said by him to be 



