750 AUSTRALIAN TABANID^, ii., 



duced into a laige, blunt tubercle between the antennas and palpi, 

 cheeks and undersurface of head densely clothed with fairly long, 

 orange-coloured hairs; antennae testaceous, first and second seg- 

 ments densely clothed with fairly long, mixed, black and orange 

 hairs; base of third segment broadly triangular, with scattered, 

 short, black and golden hairs ; j^alpi very short, two-jointed, 

 cylindrical, densely clothed with long, black hairs; apical segment 

 testaceous; eyes black, shining, facets small, nude; proboscis dark 

 brown, apex and upper basal two-thirds testaceous. 



Thonu; with three, fairly bi'oad, black stripes, yellowish on 

 each side of the median one, and orange laterally, clothed with 

 golden hairs; pleurtt black, clothed with golden tomentum, and 

 scattered, golden hairs; scutellum similar to thorax. 



Abdomeri as wide as thorax, becoming narrower toward the 

 apex; first five segments pale, the first and second with fairly 

 large, median, black spots as broad as the segments, and black, 

 lateral patches also; third to fifth segments with broad, black, 

 basal banding, expanding lateiully, and clothed with short, golden 

 hairs; venter with first segment pale, second with two, basal and 

 apical, pale spots; third to fifth black, with pale, apical ones; 

 sixth with a narrow, black band, rest of segment and remaining 

 ones testaceous; all segments with a lateral fringe of orange- 

 coloured hairs. 



//'';/.s testaceous, spurs on the mid-tibite stout, black, those on 

 hind-tibiai testaceous and slenderer ; the claws black, sickle- 

 shaped, fairly large. 



Wiiuja orange-yellow; veins bi'own, except the subcostal, which 

 is reddish; the apex and inner margin to the base of the marginal 

 cells dusky, pale on the axillary cell; a pale spot in the middle 

 of the cubital cell, the discoidal and inferior basal pale, also the 

 basal half of the anal cell. Halteres orange. 



Hah.—Q.: Kuranda (F. P. Dodd). 



Described from a single specimen. A second specimen was 

 submitted to Mr. Austen, who informed me that it belonged to 

 a new genus and species allied to Osca (subgenus Corioiieura). 

 It is an easily recognised species on account of its abdominal 



