48 AUSTRALIAN TABANIDjE, iv., 



brown, sides and posterior border broadly golden, also a short, 

 pale band from the sides joining the olive stripes at the apex of 

 the anterior third, pubescence golden on the golden areas, else- 

 where black; pleural covered with grey tomentum and pubes- 

 cence, the latter golden beneath the shoulders. 



Abdomen deep olive-brown; all the segments with creamy-white, 

 apical, triangular flecks, segmentations narrowly pale, sides of 

 segments with apical, more or less triangular flecks diminishing 

 in size towards the apex of the abdomen; pubescence pale on the 

 creamy areas, black elsewhere: venter entirely greyish with pale 

 pubescence. 



Leys blackish brown, pubescence black. 



Wings very faintly tinged brown: veins black, the radial vein 

 slightly curved; stigma yellowish; no appendix. 



Hab.-Q.: Kuranda (F. P. Dodd). 



Described from a single specimen. It is a very distinct and 

 beautiful insect, and is named in honour of its discoverer. 



Group iv. Forehead with no callus. 



Tabanus angusticallus Ricardo. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), xix., p.218 (1917). 



A single specimen before me shows that the thorax has 

 numerous pale hairs in addition to the black pubescence. The 

 annuli of the third joint of the antemne are brownish when 

 viewed from above. 



Hab. — K. Territory: Howard Creek (G. F. Hill). 



Group vii. Abdomen with one or more stripes, usually 



continuous. 



Tabanus walteri, sp.n. 



(Plate i., fig.l). 



Q. Length, 15*5; length of wing, 14; width uf head, 55 mm. 



Head : face with grey tomentum and pubescence, darker on 



the cheeks; subcallus with brown tomentum; front grey, with 



grey pubescence, somewhat darker in the centre, very slightly 



narrower at the base, frontal callus almost square with a lineal 



extension reaching the centre, upper portion and extension 



