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Group X. Lophonotus, Macquart. 



Asilus Androclea, n. s., mas. Fuscus, abdominis apice nigro, seg- 

 mentorum marginibus posticis basi canis apice fulvis, antennis 

 nigris, pedibus piceis, tibiis ferrugineis basifulvis, tarsis obscure 

 ferrugineis apice piceis, alis subcinereis. 



Body dark brown, stout, very hairy ; head nearly as broad as 

 the chest, thickly clothed beneath with white hairs, furnished on the 

 crown with some black hairs, and behind with some black bristles ; 

 front thickly clothed with long black hairs ; clypeus thickly beset 

 with long white hairs: eyes dark bronze; fore part flat, distinct 

 from the other part, and with rather larger facets : lip and palpi 

 black, the latter beset with black bristles : first and second joints of 

 the feelers black, thickly beset with black bristles; second joint cup- 

 shaped, about half the length of the first : chest clothed with black 

 hairs and bristles ; sides paler ; breast still paler, and thinly covered 

 with tawny hairs : abdomen tapering from the base to the tip, much 

 narrower and longer than the chest, but not twice its length, clothed 

 at the base with long hoary hairs, beyond with tawny hairs, and at 

 the black tip with black hairs; the sides and hind borders of 

 the segments are hoary at the base of the abdomen, but become 

 tawny towards the tip ; segments from the third successively de- 

 creasing in length : legs piceous, very hairy ; hips clothed with 

 long hoary hairs ; thighs clothed with tawny hairs and beset with 

 black spines ; shanks dark ferruginous, pale tawny at the base, 

 clothed with short and with very long tawny and whitish hairs, the 

 long hairs are most abundant ; the shanks are also beset with some 

 black hairs and long black bristles ; feet dark ferruginous, with pi- 

 ceous tips, beset with white hairs and black bristles ; claws black ; 

 foot-cushions dull tawny : wings tinged with gray, almost colourless 

 towards the base ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, piceous to- 

 wards the base ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the 

 wings 12 lines. 



a. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



Asilus pellitus, Wied. Zool. Mag, iii. 34, 49. Dipt. Exot. i. 188, 



10. Auss. Zweif. i. 440, 23. 

 a. South Africa. 



Asilus suillus, Wied. Dipt. Exot. i. 189, 11. Auss. Zweif. i. 441, 



24. Dasypogon suillus, Fabr. Syst. Anil. 168, 19. 

 a. South Africa. 



Asilus molitor, Wied. Auss. Zweif. i. 450, 38. 

 a. South Africa. 



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