58 AUSTRALIAN TABANID^E, IV., 



Tabanus kurand.e, sp.n. 

 (Plate i., tig. 5). 



Q. Length, 175; width of head, 65; length of wing, 15 mm. 



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

 pubescence, lower third of face yellowish; beard grey, scanty; 

 subcallus black, tomentum dull golden; front black, parallel, 

 narrow, tomentum dull golden, pubescence black, frontal callus 

 scarcely as wide as front, resting on subcallus, bottle-shaped, 

 black, tumid, lineal extension thin, reaching the middle of front; 

 palpi large, swollen, yellow, with dense black pubescence and a 

 few pale hairs at the base, almost as long as proboscis, and end- 

 ing in a blunt point; antenna? red, first joint long, about thrice 

 the length of second, pubescence black, annuli dusky, tooth 

 represented by a broad angle. 



Thorax shining black, tomentum a dirty yellowish brown, 

 pubescence black, very short, sides red, with black pubescence, 

 fairly long; scutellum red, base black, tomentum as on thorax, 

 pubescence pale on posterior border; pleurae with grey tomentum 

 and pubescence. 



Abdomen : segments one to four black, second to fourth with 

 broad red segmentations, first with grey tomentum and a median 

 tuft of yellowish hairs, segmentations pale, five to the apex red, 

 pubescence black; venter with dark tomentum, pubescence black, 

 segmentations pale. 



Legs : femora and first tarsals dull red, tibiae yellowish, apices 

 reddish, pubescence black, dense on tarsi, tibiae with pale hairs 

 in addition. 



Wings clear; veins brown; stigma pale yellow; no appendix 

 present. 



Hab.—Q.: Kuranda (P. P. Dpdd). 



Type unique. Very distinct and readily distinguishable on 

 account of its abdominal ornamentations. 



Tabanus batchklori, sp.n. 

 (Plate ii., fig.6). 

 5. Length, 13*5; width of head, 5; length of wing, 11 mm. 

 Head: face and cheeks covered with grey tomentum and 



