436 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Austr. 992. Latr. Gen. Crust iv. 298. Cons. Gen. 443. Fall 

 Dipt. Suec. Asil. 8, 1. Meig. Dipt. ii. 309, 4. 



a. England. 



b. France. 



c. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Asilus apicata, n. s., fern. Niger, thoracis lateribus ferrugineis, 

 pectore cano, abdominis segmentis fulvo fasciatis, ventre piceo, 

 pedibus fidvis, femoribus nigro vittatis, alls subflavis marginibus 

 posticis cinereis. 



Allied to A. crabroniformis. Body black, clothed with short 

 yellow hairs : head as broad as the chest, clothed with pale shining 

 yellow hairs ; clypeus prominent, beset with long pale yellow bris- 

 tles, and with some shorter black bristles : eyes very large, dark 

 bronze ; fore part flat, composed of very large facets, and quite dis- 

 tinct from the other part : lip black, shining, clothed at the base 

 with long pale yellow hairs, and at the tip with short tawny hairs ; 

 tongue and palpi black, the latter clothed with tawny hairs : chest 

 covered with pale tawny bloom, ferruginous on each side behind; 

 sides beset with some tawny bristles : breast hoary and clothed with 

 hoary hairs: abdomen linear, clothed with tawny hairs, narrower 

 than the chest, and much less than twice its length ; hind borders 

 of the segments tawny ; under-side piceous ; segments from the 

 third to the sixth successively, but very slightly decreasing in length ; 

 seventh segment much shorter than the sixth : eighth and ninth 

 segments small : legs tawny, clothed with tawny hairs, and beset 

 with some slender tawny bristles ; hips black ; thighs streaked with 

 black ; claws black, tawny at the base ; foot-cushions tawny : wings 

 pale yellow ; hind borders gray ; wing-ribs and veins bright tawny, 

 some of the latter yellow ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 9 

 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Java. 



Asilus Calatinus, n. s., mas. Fulvus, thoracis disco fusco vittis tri- 

 bus fulvis, abdominis segmentorum marginibus posticis piceis, 

 antennis flavis apice piceis, pedibus alisque fulvis. 



Body tawny : head a little narrower than the chest, covered 

 with whitish down, beset behind the eyes with a few white hairs 

 and black bristles, thickly clothed beneath with white hairs ; crown 

 covered with tawny down ; front clothed with a few white hairs ; 

 clypeus armed with long white spines: eyes bronze; fore part flat, 

 its facets much larger than those of the other part: lip black, 



