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tibiae reddish. Wings limpid, extending nearly to the tip of 

 the abdomen ; veins black, tawny at the base ; hind branch 

 of the cubital vein very near the first externo-medial vein, 

 with which it is connected by a little veinlet. Hal teres 

 tawny. Length of the body 10 — 11 lines. Harkeko. 

 Dahleck. 



Gen. AsiLUS, Linn, 



15. A. femoralis, Wied. Auss. Zvveifl. i. 466. WadyFerran. 

 Tor. Inhabits Egypt. 



16. A. deformis. Male and female. — Black, stout, with 

 cinereous tomentum. Head clothed with white hairs ; mystax 

 white. Thorax with three blackish stripes; some whitish 

 bristles on each side. Abdomen tapering from the base to 

 the tip, nearly twice the length of the thorax ; hind borders 

 of the segments, from the first to the fourth, black ; a few 

 whitish bristles on each side. Legs stout, with whitish 

 bristles; tibiae and tarsi tawny; hind tibiae black on the 

 outer side. Wings pellucid ; veins black, tawny at the 

 base; forks of the cubital vein undulating. Halteres testa- 

 ceous. Male. — Sexualia small. Female. — Oviduct short, 

 compressed, black, shining. Length of the body 9 — 10 lines. 

 Wady Ferran. Wady Nash. 



17. A. mivatus. Female. — Black, dull, rather slender. Head 

 with white bristles; mystax white; epistoma prominent; 

 some black bristles near the antennae, which are slender. 

 Thorax with short black hairs ; some black bristles and some 

 longer and stouter white bristles on each side. Abdomen 

 lanceolate, more than twice the length of the thorax, with 

 some white bristles towards the base ; tip shining, compressed. 

 Legs black, with white bristles ; tibiae and tarsi tawny ; hind 

 tibiae striped with blackish on the outer side. Wings pellucid; 

 veins black, tawny at the base ; forks of the cubital vein 

 slightly undulating. Halteres testaceous. Length of the 

 body 7 J lines. Tajura. Wady Nash. 



IS. A. enite?is. Male. — Black, with hoary tomentum. Head 

 with white hairs behind and beneath ; mystax white, thick, 

 with very slender bristles. Antennae testaceous. Thorax 

 with very few white bristles. Abdofuen with a few short 

 white bristles on each side, about twice the length of the 

 thorax, tapering from the base to the tip, which is tawny ; 

 sexualia small. Legs testaceous, rather slender; bristles 



