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black, base of third dull reddish-yellow, with a blunt tooth, annuli 

 dusky: palpi creamy-yellow, second joint stout at base, pubes. 

 cence black and pale; beard grey. 



Thorax black, shoulders reddish, tomentum slate-grey, pubes- 

 cence black and pale, fairly long on the sides, scutellum similar: 

 pleune with greY tomentum and pubescence. 



/Lbdomen: first three segments reddish, the remaining segments 

 darker, pubescence mixed pale and black; all the segments show 

 an indistinct, pale median stripe when viewed from behind for- 

 wards; one specimen has the first two reddish, and the remaining 

 segments dusky; venter reddish, darker towards apex. 



Legs: forelegs black, except basal half of tibise reddish-yellow, 

 with pale pubescence; mid- and hind-femora with the basal half 

 faintly dusky, and with grey tomentum, the rest of femora and 

 the tibia reddish-yellow, with pale pubescence, tarsi dusky, with 

 black pubescence. 



Wings clear, subcostal, first long vein, and veins on basal half 

 Yellowish, the rest brown; stigma yellowish; no appendix. 



llab. — N. Territory : Darwin, and thirty miles east of Darwin 

 (G. F. Hill, Nos.lll,* 113). 



A well defined species, and, apparently, not closely related to 

 other members of Group vii. Mr. Hill notes that the eyes are 

 greenish-bronze, and that it is a persistent biter of horses. 



Pa ra type in Coll. Hill. 



Group viii. Species with median or lateral spots, or both, on 

 abdomen, not usually forming a continuous stripe. 



Tabanus rnusKUs, n.sp. 



9 Length, 11*5; length of wing, 10: width of head, 4 mm. 



Head: face and cheeks with grey tomentum and pubescence, 

 face slightly convex in the middle, with a shallow groove on 

 either side, pubescence and tomentum grey, yellowish beneath 

 subcallus, with black pubescence, subcallus with pale golden- 

 yellow tomentum; front converging slightly towards vertex, 

 tomentum golden, pubescence black, frontal callus shining black, 

 bottle-shaped, with a short, thick extension; beard grey, seantv: 

 first two joints of antennae golden, with short, black pubescence, 



