LIST OF DIPTERA. 453 



Asilus apicalis, Wied. Dipt. Exot. i. 191, 16. Auss. Zweif. i. 443, 



28. 

 a. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Kedman's collection. 



In a fly of this species the little cross-vein in the middle of one 

 wing is double. 



Asilus Sadyates, n. s., fern. Fuscus, thoracefulvo trivittato, iateri- 

 bus meiathorace pectoreque canis, abdomine nigro, fasciis ven- 

 treque cinereis, antennis pedibusque nigris, tibiis tarsorumque 

 articulis apice fulvis, alis limpidis, apicibus marginibusque pos- 

 ticis cinereis. 



Body brown : head as broad as the chest, covered with shining 

 pale tawny down, clothed behind and beneath with white hairs, fur- 

 nished with a row of black hairs on the crown, and beset behind the 

 eyes with a row of black bristles ; clypeus armed behind with many 

 black bristles, and in front with a few pale yellow bristles : eyes 

 dark bronze ; fore part flat, quite distinct from the other part and 

 with much larger facets : lip black, shining, clothed at the base with 

 long, and at the tip with short pale yellow hairs ; tongue ferrugi- 

 nous at the tip : feelers black ; first and second joints clothed with 

 short black bristles ; second joint hardly half the length of the first ; 

 third joint slightly spindle-shaped, shorter than the first and the se- 

 cond ; fourth and fifth joints forming a bristle, which is shorter than 

 the third : chest covered with bright tawny down, which forms three 

 stripes on the back, thinly clothed with short black hairs, and beset 

 on each side and behind with black bristles : breast, hind chest, and 

 sides of the chest hoary : abdomen black, tapering from the base to 

 the tip, clothed with short black hairs, and at the base with some 

 longer hoary hairs, slightly shining, a little narrower than the chest, 

 and more than twice their length ; under-side, sides, and hind bor- 

 ders of the segments gray; segments from the third to the seventh 

 decreasing in length ; eighth and ninth segments shining, quite 

 black ; ninth segment longer than the eighth : legs black, clothed 

 with short yellow hairs and beset with black bristles of various 

 length ; tips of the shanks and of the joints of the feet tawny ; fore 

 shanks tawny, with black tips, and clothed as well as the fore feet 

 with bright tawny down ; claws black ; foot-cushions dull tawny : 

 wings colourless, gray at the tips and along the hind borders ; wing- 

 ribs ferruginous ; veins black, piceous at the base ; poisers tawny. 

 Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Ohio. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



