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AUSTRALIAN TAX A XID. E[Diptera]. No.iv.* 



By Frank H. Taylor, F.E.S. 



(From the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, Townsville. ) 



(Plates i.-ii.) 



The Tabanidse comprising most of the subject-matter of this 

 paper have been received from Mr. Longman, Director of the 

 Queensland Museum, and Messrs. W. W. Froggatt, R. J. Till" 

 yard, and G. F. Hill. I wish to tender my best thanks to these 

 gentlemen for affording me the opportunity of studying these 

 forms. 



Mr. Hill's collection contained by far the greater number of 

 novelties, but the most distinctive and beautiful Tabanus yet 

 described, T. walleri, was contained in Mr. Froggatt's collection, 

 the type of which he has generously presented to the Institute. 

 The Institute is also indebted to Mr. Hill's generosity in giving 

 the types of his new species. 



One new genus has been proposed for a striking species of the 

 subfamily Tabaninse, and descriptions of twenty-six new species 

 and one variety are given, which are distributed in the following 

 genera —Silvius (three, and one variety), Cydistomyia(g. et sp.n.), 

 and Tabanus (twenty-two). 



Subfamily PangoniN;E. 

 Pelecorhynchus fulvus Ricardo. 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8)., v., p.406 (1910). 

 Hob — N.8.W.: Mount Bindo, 4,100 feet, near Hampton (R. 

 J. Tillyard). 



Pelecorhynchus nigripennis Ricardo. 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), v., p.405 (1910). 



* Continued from Vol. xlii., 1917, p.528. 





