758 AUSTRALIAN TABANID^, ii.. 



Ahdomon: first thi'ee segments reddish-brown, the remainder 

 dark brown, with scattered, yellow, short, appressed hairs, all 

 the segments with narrow, grey, apical bands, venter similar. 



Leyii: fore-legs dusky, except basal half of tibipe, which is 

 yellowish; mid- and hind-femora dusky, mid- and hind-tibife also; 

 first hind tarsal yellowish, remaining tarsi of both legs dusky, 

 all femora with pale pubescence, tibiae and tarsi with black 

 pubescence. 



Wiiu/x clear, veins brown; no appendix. 



//ft/>._N. Territory: Stapleton (G. F. Hill). 



A specimen of the above was submitterl to Mr. Austen, who 

 informed me that it was close to K. uu/rimanus Walker, from 

 which it may be distinguished, infn- alia, by the colour of the 

 antennae and legs. 



Tabanus doddi, nom.nov. 



Tahanus abstersus Taylor, 7iec Walker, Rept. Aust. Tnst. Trop. 

 Med., 1911, p.60(1913); Austen, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), xiii., 

 p.264(1914). 



A change of name becomes necessary for this species, due to a 

 misidentification of Walker's s-pecies, as pointed out by Austen; 

 and also because, as far as I am able to judge from all the de- 

 scriptions of Australian Tabani, it remains unnamed. 



It is a very distinct and easily recognised species, owing to 

 the white-haired fieck on the hind margin of each of the first five 

 segments, the black ground-colour of the dorsum of the abdomen, 

 and the angle on the expanded portion of the third joint of the 

 antenna;, which is produced into a long, thumb-like process. All 

 the specimens before me (19) show the annuli of the third joint 

 of the antennfe with a marked, upward curve. 



JIah.—H. Queensland (H. Tryon).— Q.: Kuranda (F. P. Dodd), 

 Mourilyan (F. H. Taylor). 



Group X. Species with the abdomen unicolorous, or almost so, 

 sometimes darker at apex. 

 Tabanus darwinensis, sp.n. 

 9. Length, 10-5; width of head, 3-8; width of front at vertex, 

 0-5; length of wing, 9-5 mm. 



