432 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



borders of the veins ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins piceous ; poisers 

 pale tawny. Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. New Holland. 



b. ? 



Asilus striola, Wied. Dipt. Exot. i. 199, 31. Auss. Zweif. i. 464, 



58. Dasypogon striola, Fabr. Syst. Anil. 172, 38. 

 a. Brazil? 



Asilus rufinervis, Hoffmansegg, Meig. Dipt. ii. 324, 27. 

 a. Hartz Mountains. Presented by Dr. HofFmeister. 



Asilus Curiatius, n. s., mas. Niger, pectore cano, antennis pedibus- 

 que nigris, femoribus tibiisque subtus rufis, alis fuscis. 



Body black : head narrower than the chest, covered with tawny 

 down, clothed behind and beneath with tawny hairs, beset on each 

 side of the crown with a few black bristles ; clypeus prominent, 

 thickly covered with long black and tawny bristles : eyes black ; fore 

 part 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 : first and second joints of the feelers black, 

 clothed with short black bristles; second joint much shorter than 

 the first : chest thinly clothed with black hairs, beset on each side 

 and behind with a few black bristles : breast hoary : abdomen much 

 narrower than the chest, and more than twice its length, tapering 

 from the base to the tip, clothed with short pale tawny hairs, and on 

 each side towards the base with longer and paler hairs ; first and se- 

 cond segments very short ; third and following segments long, suc- 

 cessively decreasing in length ; sexual parts rather large : legs 

 black, clothed with short black hairs, armed with black spines; 

 thighs and shanks red beneath ; foot-cushions pale piceous: wings 

 dark brown ; borders of some of the veins rather paler ; wing-ribs 

 piceous ; veins black ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 8^ lines ; 

 of the wings 13 lines. 



a. Nepaul. From the Hardwicke bequest. 



Asilus Malis, n. s., fern. Ferrugineus, thoracis vittis quatuor nigris, 

 abdomine piceo, segmentorum marginibus posticis ferrugineis, 

 apice compresso nigro, antennis pedibusque nigris, tarsis basi 

 tibiisque rufis, alis fuscis. 



Body piceous : head nearly as broad as the chest, covered be- 

 hind and beneath with pale tawny down ; above and in front with 

 ferruginous down, clothed behind with tawny hairs and with a row 



