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black, scutellum similar to thorax; pleurae with grey tomentum 

 and pubescence. 



Abdomen pale yellowish-red, pubescence black, all segments 

 with a small, median, apical, triangular, pale fleck; pubescence 

 pale laterally; venter yellowish-red, pubescence pale. 



Legs : forelegs and basal two-thirds of mid- and hind-femora 

 black, basal two-thirds of tibiae and knees yellowish-brown, with 

 pale pubescence, apical third of mid- and hind-femora, and the 

 tibiae and tarsi paler than fore-tibise, coxa? and femora with grey 

 tomentum and pubescence, the latter mixed pale and black on 

 femora, very dense on tarsi. 



Wings clear, grey; veins dark brown; stigma yellow; no ap. 

 pendix present. 



Hab.—Q.: Kuranda (F. P. Dodd). 



Described from a single specimen, and apparently closer to 

 T. innotabilis Walker, than to other members of Group viii. 



Group ix. Species with paler bands, and sometimes spots on the 



abdomen. 



Tabanus brevior Walker. 



List. Dipt., i., p.188 (1848); Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist,, 

 (8), xv., p.279 (1915). 



Ifab.-N. Territory: Darwin, Howard Creek (G. F. Hill, 

 No.110). 



The specimens before me do not agree well with Miss Ricardo's 

 description of this species; but, until a specimen has been com- 

 pared with the type, it is deemed advisable to leave them under 

 the above name. 



Tabanus macquarti Ricardo. 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist,, (8), xiv., p.277 (1915). 

 //«&._N.S. YV.: Kendall (R. J. Tillyard).— Q.: Mt. Tambourine 

 (W. H. Davidson per R, J. Tillyard). 



Tabanus sequkns Walker. 

 List. Dipt., i., p. 178 (1848); Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat, Hist., 

 (8), xv., p.278 (1915). 



Hab. — N. Territory: Darwin (G. F. Hill, No. 106). 



