56 AUSTRALIAN TABANID^, iv., 



third joint pale reddish-yellow, annuli darker, basal portion with 

 an inconspicuous angle; palpi yellow, ending in a blunt point, 

 pubescence short, mixed pale and black. 



'Thorax deep greyish-olive, pubescence dark, scanty, scutellnni 

 similar; pleura 1 with grey pubescence and torn en turn. 



Abdomen deep greyish-olive, pubescence black, short, segmenta- 

 tions with scanty pale pubescence: segments three to five with 

 pale, median, apical, triangular spots when viewed from the head 

 toward the abdomen; sides of segments yellowish; venter black, 

 with grey tomentum and pubescence. 



Legs black, apices of femora yellowish-brown, apical third of 

 fore tibia? blackish, the remainder with mid- and hind-tibia? 

 yellowish-brown, tarsi black; pubescence on femora and tibia? 

 mainly pale, black on tarsi; coxa? grey, with grey pubescence. 



Wings : upper half lightly shaded with pale brown, veins 

 black, faintly clouded with brown, except the anal vein and 

 those forming the posterior cells; stigma dark yellowish- brown; 

 appendix present. 



Hab.—Q.: Brisbane (H. Hacker; 20.12.17). 



Type in the Queensland Museum. 



This species does not seem to be closely related to any other 

 member of Group viii. It appears to be a very distinct species. 



Tabanus aphepes, sp.n. 



9. Length, 13-5; width of head, 5; length of wing, 1T5 mm. 



Head: face, cheeks, and subcallus grey, pubescence on face 

 and cheeks grey; front parallel, with grey tomentum, creamy on 

 the sides, pubescence black, with scattered yellow hairs, chiefly 

 on the sides, frontal callus black, pear-shaped, half the width 

 of front and resting on subcallus, with a long extension 

 reaching the middle of the front; palpi white, with black and 

 white pubescence, stout, ending in a blunt joint; first two joints 

 of antenna? yellowish, pubescence black above, grey laterally, 

 third black, tooth represented by a broad angle; beard grey, 

 scanty. 



Thorax slate-grey, pubescence golden, sides reddish, pubescence 



