BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. 759 



Head: front dull golden, covered with numerous, black, erect 

 hairs; frontal callus black, pear-shaped, tiiniid; subcallus dull 

 golden, light chestnut when denuded, rest of head grey, beard 

 grey-white; first two segments of antennfe golden-yellow, clothed 

 with numerous, fairly long, black hairs ; base of third joint 

 reddish-brown, covered with minute, pale hairs, an obtuse angle 

 on the upper margin, annuli black; palpi ci-eamy, clothed with 

 fairly long, black and short, pale hairs, about one-half the length 

 of proboscis; eyes black, the inner margins converging toward the 

 vertex. 



Thorax grey-black, clothed with mixed, pale and black haii's; 

 scutellum similar t«) thorax; pleune slate-coloured, clothed with 

 grey hairs. 



Abdomen grey-black, clothed with numerous, mixed, black and 

 pale bail's, venter similar, posterior margins of segments w ith a 

 narrow band. 



Wuigs clear, veins black; stigma yellowish-brown, elongate; 

 anterior branch of the third long vein with an appendix. 



Lfic/s: basal third of the fore- and mid-femora slate-cok)ured, 

 the rest reddish-bi'own, hind slate-coloured, apical third reddish- 

 brown, tibiae reddish-brown, fore-tibia^ darker on the apical third, 

 tarsi black, femora clothed with mixed, black and pale hairs, 

 tibipe and tarsi clothed with black ones. 



//«&.— N. Territory: Darwin (G. F. Hill, No. 107). 



Described from two specimens. It is related to 7\ finiphris 

 Macq., but difters, hiter alia, in having the wings clear. T. 

 funebris is described as being entirely black, and having the 

 veins shaded brown. 



Co-type in Coll. Hill. 



Gi'oiip xi. Species with pubescence on the eyes (^Thpvioplecfps). 

 Tabanus antecedkns Walker. 



List Dipt., i., p.l78(1848); Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 (8), xvi., p.279(1915). 



Melbourne specimens differ from Ricardo's description in 

 having the anteiime black, the first segment with fairly long, 



