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yellowish, femoral pubescence grey, tibial and tarsal pubescence 

 1)1 ack, veiy dense. 



//«/>.— N.S.W.: Milson Island, Hawkesbury River(Dr. Cleland). 



Closely resembling T. impprfectiLs Walker, but differs in ha\ing 

 the base of the third joint of tlie antennsi? reddish-yellow, tlie 

 frontal callus shorter, with a lineal extension; and the thorax 

 with three, well-defined, dark stripes. There are also well- 

 defined, grey, median spots on the second to fifth segments; 

 whilst, in T. iraperfectus Walker, these are present only on the 

 second to fourth segments. 



Tabanus spadix, sp.n. 



9. Length, 9; width of head 4; width of front at vertex, 0-5; 

 length of wing, 8*5 mm. 



Head: face pale creamy; beard pale creamy; front golden, dis- 

 tinctly narrower at vertex; pubescence black; frontal callus 

 pear-shaped, tumid, shining, dark chestnut-brown, about one-half 

 the width of the front; subcallus chestnut, tonientum golden; 

 first two joints of antennjB yellow, pubescence black, third joint 

 reddish-yellow, annuli darker, tootl> small; palpi yellowish, stout, 

 apical third thin, tapering to a fine point; pubescence on eyes 

 pale, scanty. 



Thorax ashen-grey, with five, dark chocolate-brown stripes, the 

 median one very narrow, the two submedian ones short, extend- 

 ing to the middle of the thorax, pubescence mixed pale and black, 

 latei-al hairs long; scutellum black, tomentum grey, pubescence 

 long, pale; pleurae grey, pubescence long, grey. 



Abdomen: first three segments light brown, fourth to the apex 

 dark brown, segments two to the apex with pale bands, expand- 

 ing laterally, the second segment basally pale also, the second to 

 sixth segments also with indistinct, median, pale, triangular 

 spots, pubescence black, pale on the segmentations; venter creamy, 

 pubescence pale, penultimate and apical segments dark. 



Legs: coxse and trochanters with long, grey pubescence, fore- 

 legs black, basal two-thirds of tibiae yellowish, apical two-thirds 

 of mid-femora and tibiae yellowish, apex of hind femora and the 



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