748 AUSTRALIAN TABANID^, ii., 



A very handsome and distinct little species, unlike any other 

 with which I am acquainted. 



DiATOMINEURA BREVIROSTRIS Macquart. 



Dipt. Exot., Suppl. iv., p.326 (1842) [Pan(/omrt] ; Ricardo, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), xvi., p.28(1915). 



Hah. — Queensland: Montville (Dr. Turner), Kuranda (F. P. 

 Dodd and F. H. Taylor). 



I am indebted to Mr. Austen for the identification of this 

 species, which is apparently a common one at Kuranda. 



DiATOMINEURA VIOLACEA Macquart. 



Dipt. Exot., Suppl. iv., p.326, PI. xi., %.3 {\U^)[Pangonia\; 

 Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), xvi., p.30(1915). 



Ilah. — Q. : Mount Tambourine (W. W. Froggatt), Barron Falls 

 (F. H. Taylor). 



The specimens from Mount Tambourine agree perfectly with 

 those from Kuranda, a district where it is a fairly common 

 species. 



CORIZONEURA KURANDiE, sp.n. 



9. Length, 13-15; width of head, 4-5; width of front at vertex, 

 0"4-0-6; length of wing, 11-5-13 mm. 



Head: face, cheeks, and front grey, face and cheeks with short, 

 white hairs, beard white ; frontal callus black, spear-shaped, 

 gradually tapering to a fine point, reaching the ocellar triangle; 

 the latter dark, with a golden tinge, ocelli prominent; subcallus 

 grey; antennjy and palpi black, first and second segments ot the 

 former densely clothed with black hairs, third with the base tri- 

 angular, palpi about two-thirds the length of the proboscis, the 

 latter short, black; eyes black, inner margins parallel. 



Thorax grey, with three, well-defined, black stripes, clothed 

 with semi-erect, grey hairs; scutellum dusky-brown, with a narrow, 

 posterior, grey margin, clothed with grey hairs, posterior fringe 

 grey, fairly long; pleurtB black, with grey tomentum, and fairly 

 long, grey hair. 



