760 AUSTRALIAN TABANID^, ii., 



mixed, black and golden hairs; and the bi'oad, basal portion of 

 the third segment lacking a distinct angle, the tooth being very 

 small. 



In other respects, they conform to a specimen determined as 

 T. nntpcpclpus Walker, by Mr. Austen, for the writer. 



Hab. — Victoria : Melbourne (Dr. Cumpston). 



Tabanus milsoni, sp.n. 



9. Length, 10: width of head, 4; width of front at vertex, 0-75; 

 length of wing 9 mm. 



Head: face ashen-grey, pubescence grey; beard gre}-; front 

 almost parallel, grey with traces of dark yellow, pubescence pale; 

 ocellar triangle brown; frontal callus square, resting on the sub- 

 callus, black, tumid, shining, as wide as front, with a short, stout 

 extension; subcallus chestnut, with gi^ey tomentum; first two 

 segments of antennae black, with grey tomentum, and long, black 

 pubescence; third joint reddish-yellow, annuli black, basal portion 

 broad, with an obtuse angle, tooth small, with a few black hairs; 

 palpi dull red-brown, about two-thirds the length of proboscis, 

 tomentum grey, pubescence mixed pale and black; eyes with 

 very scanty, pale pubescence. 



T'horax chocolate-brown, tomentum grey, with three, well- 

 defined, dark stripes, pubescence grey and black, long on the 

 lateral margins; scutellum chocolate-brown, pubescence similar to 

 thorax, pleurae grey, pubescence grey. 



Abdomen dark chocolate-brown, all segments from the second 

 with grey bands expanding laterally, the second with an addi- 

 tional one, which does not meet in the middle; segments two to 

 five with median, grey, triangular spots, pubescence black, long 

 on the apical segments, grey on the bands and spots, long on the 

 lateral, grey expansions; venter chocolate-brown, gi'ey banding 

 prominent, pubescence dense, mixed grey and black. 



Wings clear, veins dark brown; stigma yellowish-brown; ante- 

 rior branch of the third long vein with a small appendix. 



Leys black, coxae and trochanters with long, grey pubescence, 

 basal half of the fore-tibiae yellowish-brown, mid- and hind-tibiae 



