the Asilidoe of Australasia. 357 



Male. — Face covered with pale golden-yellow tomentura. 

 Moustache of fairly strong yellowish-white bristles round 

 the oral opening. * Palpi reddish yellow. Beard silvery 

 white. Antennce reddish yellow, the first two joints equal 

 in length, with some short black pubescence and two stout 

 bristles at apex of second joint ; the third joint a little darker 

 in colour, cylindrical, about one and a half times as long as 

 the first two joints together. Forehead darker than face, 

 with a few short black hairs and two black bristles on the 

 ocelligerous tubercle ; hind part of head with some bristly 

 hairs, not at all excised behind. Thorax greenish brown, 

 covered with yellowish-grey tomentum ; a broad, brown, 

 median stripe appears ; beyond on each side three or more 

 black short bristles are present, and on side of thorax just 

 before the suture yellowish ones, and two longer weak ones 

 beyond the base of wdngs ; sides and breast with yellowish- 

 grey tomentum. Scutelluin same colour as thorax, armed 

 with two yellowish bristles. Abdomen blue-black, shining 

 and bare, the last two segments chiefly reddish ; underside 

 chiefly red. Ler/s reddish yellow, with some black bristles ; 

 hind femora almost bare, hardly incrassate. Wings clear ; 

 veins yellowish, the small transverse vein situated about the 

 middle of the discal cell. Female is identical, the fourth 

 posterior cell a little more opeu at border. 



Clariola, Kertesz. 

 Termes Filzetek, xxiv. pp. 404-406 (1901). 



Formed for Clariola pidchra, a male from New Guinea. 

 The author places this genus between Atomosia and Aphestia 

 in Schiner's table (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xvi. p. 662, 

 1866), from both of which it is distinguished by the 

 peculiar third joint of antennce, which has on the upper side 

 before the middle a small projection with a spine, and also 

 by its Dioctria-\\ke appearance. C piiJclira is a small 

 species, only 5 3 mm. The three new species from Queens- 

 land now added to this genus are large robust flies, very 

 much larger than C.pulchra, and the projection on the third 

 anteunal joixit is placed beyond the middle of the joint, 

 otherwise they seem to agree in all the characters given 

 of the genus, though the thorn or spine is not visible in 

 one species, even when examined under a strong lens and 

 magnified 28 times, but minute hairs fringe the apex. 



1. Abdomen black, pubescence chiefly reddish 



brown, l^egs yellowish pulchi'a, Sclduer. 



Abdomen and le{^s blackish, pubtsceuce white. 2. 



