BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. 4& 



reddish-brown, the rest reddish-yellow; beard grey, scanty: palpi 

 pale reddish vellow tapering to a fine point, pubescence black: 

 first and second joints of antennae dark red, apex of first black, 

 pubescence black, with scattered pale hairs, third joint black, 

 with a small tooth on the expanded basal portion. 



Thorax grey, with a narrow, whitish, median line reaching the 

 scutellum; a dark brown, fairly broad stripe on the sides, in 

 which is a narrow, grey stripe from the suture to near the pos- 

 terior extremity of the brown stripe, a narrow, grey stripe from 

 the wing-roots to the scutellum, shoulders, and sides to the wing- 

 roots reddish: scutellum red, with a dark blotch anteriorly, 

 tomentum grey, pubescence of thorax and scutellum dark ; 

 pleura' with grey tomentum and pubescence. 



Abdomen reddish-brown, becoming almost black on the last 

 two segments, segmentations and sides of all segments grey; all 

 the segments with median, trapezium-shaped, grey patches, which 

 are wider at the apex than at the base, pubescence grey on the 

 stripe, segmentations, and sides, dark elsewhere; venter grey, 

 with a broad, median, dark stripe. 



Leys: coxte and femora slate-grey, with grey pubescence, basal 

 half of the fore- and mid-tibae and knees yellowish-brown, hind- 

 bibise yellowish, apex of mid-tibia- blackish, pubescence grey, 

 tarsi blackish, pubescence black 



Wings with prominent, grey patches in all cells; veins black, 

 stigma yellowish-brown ; appendix on right wing very short, 

 rudimentary on the left. 



I lab.— N.S.W.: Hay (W. W. Froggatt, No TIF.: 20-12-17). 



This is one of the most distinct and handsome Australian 

 species of r Tabanus. The thoracic ornamentation, and the shape 

 of the abdominal spots are very marked. 



It affords me very great pleasure to dedicate this species to its 

 discoverer. 



TaBANUS KIJJSVOLDKNSIS, Sp.ll. 

 (Plate ii., fig.2) 

 $. Length, 10-5-14; width of head, 4-5; length of wing, 9'5-l 1mm. 

 Head: face and cheeks black, with grey tomentum and pubes- 

 cence; subcallus reddish-brown, tomentum grey; front parallel, 



