420 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



ribs and veins black; poisers piceous. Length of the body 9 — 10 

 lines; of the wings 16 — 20 lines. 



a. Swan River. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



b. Swan River. 



c. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



d. Swan River. From Mr. Turner's collection. 



e. West Australia. From Mr. Clifton's collection. 



Asilus vetustus, Walker, Linn. Trans, xvii. 340, 23. 

 a. Gorrite. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Asilus macrotelus, Walker, Linn. Trans, xvii. 340, 24. 

 a. Gorrite. Presented by the Entomological Club. 





Asilus Gobares, n. s., fem. Cinereus, antennis nigris, pedibus cine- 

 reis, femoribus tibiisque subtus ferrugineis, alis subfulvis apice 

 fuscis. 



Body gray : head narrower than the chest, thickly clothed be- 

 hind and beneath with tawny hairs, furnished with black hairs 

 on each side of the crown ; front beset with yellow hairs ; clypeus 

 armed with eight long black spines : eyes dark bronze ; fore 

 part slightly convex, its facets a little larger than those of the other 

 part: lip black, clothed at the tip with short tawny hairs; palpi 

 black, clothed with long black hairs : feelers black ; first and second 

 joints clothed with black hairs ; second joint club-shaped, much 

 shorter than the first; third joint spindle-shaped, rather shorter than 

 the first and the second ; fourth and fifth joints like a slender bris- 

 tle, about twice the length of the third : chest and breast thinly 

 clothed with a few tawny hairs ; the former beset on each side and 

 behind with some long black bristles : abdomen narrower than the 

 chest, and more than twice its length, tapering from the base to the 

 tip, thinly clothed with short hoary hairs ; first and second segments 

 short ; third and following segments long, but successively decreas- 

 ing in length to the tip : legs gray, clothed with very short hoary 

 hairs, beset with black spines ; thighs and shanks ferruginous 

 beneath ; claws black ; foot-cushions pale ferruginous: wings slightly 

 tawny, brown towards the tips, reaching when closed a little beyond 

 three-fourths of the length of the abdomen; wing-ribs piceous; 

 veins black, piceous towards the base ; poisers tawny. Length of 

 the body 13 lines; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Silhet. From the Rev. J. Stainforth's collection. 



