394 LIST OF DIPTEEA. 



Group V. 



Asilus quadratus, Wied. Dipt. Exol. i. 201, 34. Auss. Zweif. i. 

 485, 90. 



a. Georgia. From Mr. Abbot's collection. 



b. ? 



Asilus annularis, Wied. Dipt. Exot. i. 211,49. Auss. Zweif. i. 

 491, 99. Dasypogon annularis, Fair. Syst. And. 171, 35. 



a. Brazil. From Mr. Mornay's collection. 



b. Brazil. From Mr. Children's collecion. 



c. Brazil. From Mr. Tucker's collection. 



Asilus flavifasciatus. Trupanea flavifasciata, Macq. Dipt. Exot. 

 i. 2, 102, 26, pi. 9,/. 1. 



a. Para. Presented by Gordon Graham, Esq. 



b. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



c. ? 



Asilus Amastrus, n. s., mas. et fem. Fulvus, thorace fusco, vittis 

 tribus ferrugineis, fem. abdomine maculisfuscis, antennisnigris, 

 ferrugineo cinctis, pedibus ferrugineis, alis limpidis. 



Head tawny, a little narrower than the chest, clothed with 

 tawny hairs and beneath with white hairs, beset behind the eyes 

 with tawny bristles ; there are some black hairs on the crown and 

 on the front, and the latter has also some long yellow hairs ; clypeus 

 armed with long yellow bristles and on the hinder part with a few 

 black hairs : eyes dark bronze, rather large ; fore part nearly flat, 

 tolerably distinct from the other part, and composed of much larger 

 facets : lip black, clothed at the tip with pale yellow hairs ; palpi 

 black, beset with black bristles : feelers black ; first and second 

 joints clothed with a few black hairs ; first joint linear, ferruginous 

 at the tip ; second joint ferruginous, about half the length of the 

 first ; third joint conical, hardly longer than the first ; bristle nearly 

 linear, as long as the second and the third joints : chest pale brown, 

 with three narrow indistinct ferruginous stripes, clothed with very 

 short black hairs ; sides and breast dull tawny, the latter covered 

 with hoary bloom and clothed with some mingled black and white 

 hairs ; sides of the chest furnished with some white hairs and black 

 bristles, and with a ferruginous mark on the fore part : abdomen 

 dark tawny or piceous, narrower and somewhat longer than the 

 chest, tapering from the base to the tip, clothed with short black 

 hairs and with longer white hairs, — the latter are chiefly on the 

 hind borders of the segments and are thickest at the base ; first and 

 second segments very short ; second segment arched, furnished on 



