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callus: first two joints of antennae yellowish, with scanty black 

 pubescence, base of third reddish-yellow, annuli darker, tooth 

 represented by a shallow angle: palpi yellow, tomentum and 

 pubescence grey, the latter mainly black on second joint. 



Thorax black, with grey tomentum, pubescence black and pale, 

 shoulders reddish, with fairly long, dark pubescence, scutellum 

 similar to thorax: pleurae black, with grey tomentum and pubes- 

 cence. 



Abdomen: first tbree segments tawny, the remainder dark 

 brown, fourth segment paler, segments two and three with ob- 

 scure, median, black spots, all the segments with indications of 

 a continuous pale stripe, pubescence black, with scattered pale 

 hairs, posterior and lateral borders with pale pubescence, sides 

 of last three segments yellowish; venter pale reddish-yellow, the 

 three apical segments dusky, pubescence mostly pale. 



Leys yellowish, apex of fore-tibia; and all the tarsi darker, 

 pubescence pale on coxee, and mid- and hind-femora black else- 

 where. 



Wings grey; veins brown, paler basally; stigma yellow; an 

 appendix present. 



Hab.-N. Territory: Darwin (G. F. Hill; Nov. 1913;. 



Described from two specimens, one of which is slightly 

 damaged, and with a dirty wing. Close to T. similis Macq., 

 from Tasmania, but distinguished by the abdomen in the latter 

 species being warm buff, and having a broad, median, mummy- 

 brawn stripe, with a narrow, grey, tomentose stripe on it. Mr. 

 Hill notes that the eyes are bright green in life. 



Tabanus australicus, sp.n. 



9. Length, 13: width of head, 4 5; length of wing, 1075 mm. 



A blackish-brown species. Thorax slate-coloured. Abdomen 

 blackish- brown, first two segments yellowish. Legs black, tibiae 

 yellowish. Wings grey. 



Head: face and cheeks with grey tomentum and pubescence; 

 beard grey, scanty; first joint of antennae reddish-yellow, apex 

 black above, second segment black, very short, almost obscured 

 by the first when viewed from above, pubescence black on both 



