the AsilidfG of Australasia. 351 



IVings hyaline^ a little yellowish at base and on fore border^ 

 apex grey, fourth posterior cell closed. 

 Length 8 lines, <$ . 



Dasypogon nigripenms, Macquart. 



Type is probably lost. From New S. Wales. 



Described as black. Face white, with a black nionstache 

 confined to oral opening. Beard black. Falpi black with 

 black hairs. Legs black, the fore tibiae with a curved spine. 

 Wings violet-black, centre of cells yellowish. In the figure 

 of wing the fourth posterior cell is practically closed at 

 border and anal cell closed. The figure of head shows the 

 antenncB with the third joint >bout the length of the first 

 two_, with a short terminal style. 



Dasypogon nigrinus, Macquart. 



Type, a male, seen by me in Paris Museum, 12. 4. 11. 



Furnished with a spine on the fore tibiae and the abdomen 

 is club-shaped, but the short antennae seem to preclude it 

 from belonging to the genus Brachyrrhopola or Codula. 

 Face not very broad ; no tubercle ; moustache confined to 

 oral opening, composed of yellow bristles ; the face is covered 

 with yellow tomentum. Palpi black with black hairs. 

 Antennce very short, the third joint conical, about as long 

 as the first two together, the latter with black hairs, on the 

 second a very strong black bristle is present. Thorax black 

 (denuded). Abdomen black (denuded). Macquart states the 

 first two segments are shining black, the fifth and sixth with 

 testaceous segmentations ; no pubescence is visible, but 

 some white hairs at sides ; genitalia large, protruding, but 

 not club-shaped ; underside reddish with white hairs. Legs 

 red, stout, shining ; femora largely black ; tarsi black ; 

 bristles on legs black and yellow. Wings dark brown, 

 hyaline at base, only the apices of the basal cells being 

 brown ; the fourth posterior cell is a little narrowed at the 

 border ; the anal half open ; the small transvei-se vein is 

 below the middle of discal cell; Macquart^s figure of wing 

 gives this incorrectly, and also makes the fourth posterior 

 cell too narrow at border. 



Length 10 mm. 



From Tasmania. 



The species from New Guinea or other parts of the 

 Australian region are : — 



Dasypogon occlusus, Meijere, Nova Guinea, v. Zool. p. 73 

 (1906), which the author suggests may be the same or nearly 

 allied to, Stichopogon congressus, Wlk. 



