754 AUSTRALIAN' TABANID.E, ii., 



Thorax grey, clothed with mixed black and golden, appressed 

 hairs, the latter predominating: scutellum similar to thoi'ax; 

 pleurae grey, with scattered white hairs. 



Abdomen black, entirely covered with gi'ey tomentmn, clothed 

 with mixed, pale yellowish and black hairs, the black ones fairly 

 long on the posterior margin of the apical segment; all segments 

 \\ itli narrow, apical, yellowish banding; venter similar to thorax, 

 clothed with short, whitish hairs. 



Leys: femora and tibia? yellowish, the former clothed with 

 black pubescence. 



Winys clear, veins yellowish-brown ; stigma pale ; anterior 

 branch of the third long vein with an appendix. 



/y«6. —Northern Territory: Melville Island (G.F. Hill, No.75). 



Allied to T. nemopunctatus Ricardo, but differing in not having 

 the inner margins of the eyes parallel, and the general colour 

 being grey, besides other points of difference. The appendix on 

 the anterior branch of the third long vein (jf the wing is variable 

 in length, being longer in some than in others. 



Co-type in Coll. Hill. 



Tabanus NEMOPUNCTATUS Ricardo. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), xiv., p.;^88 (1911). 



This species, originally described from Dunk Island, Queens- 

 land, has been forwarded frcjm the Northern Territory by Mr. 

 Hill. 



These specimens show slight variation in the size of the tooth 

 on the base of the third joint of the antenna?, and also have the 

 ti}) black instead of ferruginous, but, in all other resjDects, they 

 are typical. 



Hah. — N. Tei'ritoiy: L)ar\vin, tStajjleton, and Batchelor. 



Group \ii. Abdomen with one or more stripes, usually continuous. 



Tabanus mastersi, nom.nov. 

 Tahatius yreyarius Taylor, nee Erichson. 

 Rep. Aust. Inst. Trop. Med., 1911, p.63(1913); Austen, Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), xiii., p.265(19U). 



