458 My. W. F. Kirby on the 
damaged, I have described the species from two perfect speci- 
mens from Yokohama, collected by Mr. Jonas. 
Bombyliide. 
ANTHRACINE:. 
4. Anthrax Tantalus. 
Anthrax Tantalus, Faby. Ent. Syst. iv. p. 260 (1794). 
Amboina. 
A small specimen, with a brilliant violet iridescence. It 
most resembles a specimen from Celebes in the British- 
Museum collection. 
5. Anthrax bombyliformis. 
Anthrax bombyliformis, Macl. King’s Surv, Coasts Austr. ii, p. 468 
(1827). 
Cape York. 
Asilide. 
DaAsvPoGonInz. 
6. Dasypogon diversipes. 
Length 53-74 lines; expanse 10 lines. 
Black ; thorax dusted with yellowish white on the borders, 
with three slightly raised reddish longitudinal lines near the 
middle, the interspaces being entirely black. Beyond this the 
front half of the mesothorax is yellowish white (the inner- 
most part being very bristly, which gives it a dusky appear- 
ance), but the hinder part is only of this colour on the borders 
and along a transverse median line. Head yellowish; pro- 
boscis, antenne, and a line on the vertex black ; scutellum 
and halteres yellow, a yellowish spot on each side of the back 
of the metathorax ; under surface of thorax clothed with 
yellowish hair. Abdomen rather long, black, with con- 
spicuous pale yellow spots, diminishing in size, on the sides of 
all the segments except the two last near the extremity ; 
under surface clothed with yellowish hair, but less densely 
than the thorax ; coxe reddish, densely clothed with yellowish- 
grey hair; femora red, trochanters and tips of knees black ; 
tibie yellow, with black bristles, tip broadly black above ; 
tarsi black above and testaceous beneath; basal half of first 
joint yellow. Wings brownish hyaline, with chestnut- 
coloured nervures. 
Sydney, May 1874. 
