BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. 749 



Abdomen mahogany red, becoming darker toward the apex, 

 clotlied with black hairs; first segment dark, first six segments 

 with median, triangular, white, apical flecks: second segment 

 with a border of black round the white fleck; all the segments 

 with lateral, gr-eyish- white spots, those on the first and second 

 largest; in addition, there are narrow, apical, grey bands to all 

 the segments; venter black, first three segments pale, tinged 

 with black, second to the apex all with grey-white, apical banding. 



Wings smoke-coloured, except the discoidal and inferior basal 

 cells, which are clear; veins dark brown; stigma brown, elongate, 

 inconspicuous; squamte clear. Halteres dark brown; no appendix 

 to upper branch of third long vein. 



Lfi(js black, femora densely covered with short, grey hairs; 

 tibise similarly covered with black ones; spurs on mid- and hind- 

 tibia; black, conspicuous. 



Hab.—Q. : Kuranda (F. P. Dodd), Cairns (F. H. Taylor). 



A striking species owing to the general resemblance to species 

 of the genus Tabamis, being not unlike some of the northern 

 forms of that genus. 



Elaphromyia, gen.nov. 



Ocelli, and spurs on hind-tibifi* present. Antenna; with six 

 divisions to the third joint, with the last two divisions indistinct, 

 which is broad and Tabanus-Mka at the base, the first segment 

 almost bell-shaped, about half as wide again, laterally, at the 

 apex, second segment about one-third the length of the first. 

 Palpi very small, cylindrical, about one-fourth the length of the 

 proboscis, the latter comparatively long. Wings with all pos- 

 terior cells open; no appendix. 



Tyi)e, E. carterl Taylor. 9 unknown. 



Elaphromyia oarteri, sp.n. 



^. Length, 21; width of head, 5; length of wiiig, IG; length of 

 abdomen, 14; greatest width of thorax, 4*5 mm. 



Head: subcallus yellow, clothed with yellow tomentum and 

 scattered golden hairs; face and cheeks orange, the former pro- 



