458 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



than is the other part : lip black, shining, clothed at the tip with 

 short tawny hairs : palpi black, beset with black bristles : feelers 

 black ; first and second joints thickly clothed with black hairs ; se- 

 cond joint club-shaped, much shorter than the first ; third joint with 

 a piceous tinge, tapering from the base to the tip, rather longer than 

 the first and the second joints ; fourth and following joints forming 

 a bristle, which is a little shorter than the third joint : chest adorned 

 with three bright yellowish white stripes ; middle stripe very slight 

 and indistinct ; side stripes joined by two oblique bands with the 

 sides of the chest, which, like the breast, are also bright yellowish 

 white ; sides and side stripes beset with long black hairs and bristles ; 

 scutcheon and hind chest pale tawny : abdomen thinly clothed with 

 short tawny hairs ; hind borders of the segments pale bright yellow, 

 clothed on each side towards the base with tawny bristles ; first and 

 second segments very short ; third and following segments long, but 

 successively decreasing in length ; appendages at the tip very large, 

 black, shining, clothed with tawny and black hairs and with some 

 black bristles ; under-side tawny : legs black, thick, clothed with 

 short ferruginous hairs and beset with stout black spines ; shanks 

 red, with black tips ; claws black ; foot-cushions dull tawny : wings 

 colourless, with very slight tawny streaks along the veins, gray at 

 the tips and on the disks of the areolets along the hind borders ; 

 wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers yellow. Fern. — Abdomen full 

 twice the length of the chest ; segments from the seventh to the 

 ninth compressed, black, shining : tips of the wings paler than those 

 of the male. Length of the body 6^ — 8 \ lines ; of the wings 1 1 — 12 

 lines. 



a. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. A. Sinclair. 



b. New Zealand. From Mr. Earl's collection. 



Asilus flavicornis ? Macq. Dipt. Exot. i. 2, 142, 17. 

 a. N. India. From Mr. L. James's collection. 



Asilus Antilco, n. s., fem. Cinereus, capite fulvo, thoracis vittis 

 tribus lateribus pectoreque canis, abdominis apice nigro attenuate, 

 antennis pedibusque nigris, tibiis fulvis apice nigris, alis lim- 

 pidis. 



Body gray: head full as broad as the chest, pale tawny in front 

 and behind, and thickly clothed there with short white hairs, beset 

 behind the eyes with a row of black bristles ; crown covered with a 

 few black hairs ; clypeus beset with black hairs and black bristles 

 and with a very few white bristles : eyes large, dark bronze ; fore 

 part nearly flat, its facets very little larger than those of the other 

 part: lip and palpi black, the latter and the tips of the former 



