DIPTERA. 139 
Asinus ELIcitus, Fem. 
Fuscus, eapite albido, thorace vittis quatuor nigris ornato, pectore cano, 
abdomine nigro segmentorum marginibus posticis ventreque cinereis, 
antennis pedibusque nigris, tibiis fulvis apice nigris, tarsis bast rufis, 
alis cinereis. 
Head adorned with a whitish covering, thickly clothed beneath with 
whitish hairs, beset behind the eyes with black bristles ; crown black, 
shining, clothed with black hairs; epistoma and adjoining part of the face 
thickly beset with black and whitish bristles: eyes bronzed; fore part 
nearly flat, its facets a little larger than those elsewhere : sucker and palpi 
black; tip of the sucker clothed with very short white hairs ; palpi clothed 
with long hoary hairs: feelers black; first and second joints beset with 
short black bristles; third joint tapering from near the base to the tip, 
about twice the length of the second ; bristle slightly tapering, longer than 
the third joint: chest brown, clothed with black hairs and bristles, adorned 
with four black stripes, of which the middle pair are linear and slender, the 
outer pair are short and broad; sides paler, armed with a few black spines : 
breast hoary, partly clothed with whitish hairs ; abdomen black, much more 
than twice the length of the chest, clothed at the base and beneath with 
hoary hairs, tapering from the base along two-thirds of the length, shining 
and much compressed from thence to the tip ; under side and hind borders of 
the segments gray : legs black, clothed with short black hairs, armed with 
black spines ; hips and thighs clothed with hoary hairs ; shanks tawny with 
black tips ; feet red at the base ; foot-cushions tawny: wings gray ; wing- 
ribs pitehy; veins black. Length of the body 9 lines; of the wings 12 
lines, 
New South Wales. 
Asmus Hyaaenis, Mas. 
Cervinus, capite fulvo subtus flavo, thorace vittis quatuor fuscis ornato, 
pectore cano, abdominis segmentorum marginibus posticis fulvis, an- 
tennis pedibusque ferrugineis, tarsis posticis nigris, alis subfulvis 
apice cinereis. 
Head pale tawny, with a few pale yellow hairs on each side of the 
crown, pale yellow and thickly clothed with hoary hairs behind and be- 
neath, beset behind the eyes with a few pale yellow spines; face very 
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