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pubescence, the latter fairly dense on the face, beard white; 

 front parallel, tomentum grey-brown, pubescence black and 

 golden, frontal callus brownish-black, small, about half the width 

 of the front, pear-shaped, with a short lineal extension and rest- 

 ing on the subcallus, the latter with grey tomentum: eyes black: 

 palpi creamy, with black and white pubescence, second joint 

 swollen and tapering to a blunt point; first two joints and base 

 of third of antennae yellowish-brown, pubescence black and white 

 on the first two joints, the remainder of third joint black, with 

 a prominent angle and tooth. 



Thorax black, shoulders reddish, pubescence black and copper- 

 coloured; scutellum similar; pleura? black, tomentum and pubes- 

 cence grey, the latter long. 



Abdomen yellowish-brown, becoming darker toward the apex, 

 first two segments with small, black, median spots, pubescence 

 black, dense, with indistinct, median, grey spots on all but the 

 first segment; venter grey, with dense grey pubescence. 



Leys black, basal half of fore-tibiae yellowish, with pale pubes- 

 cence, apex of femora and the tibiae of mid- and hindlegs yellow- 

 ish, with black and pale pubescence, tarsi dusky, pubescence 

 black, coxae and femora with grey tomentum and pubescence, the 

 latter long on the coxae. 



Wings grey, brownish below the stigma, the base of the 

 anterior branch of the third long vein, apex of the discoidal, the 

 apex and basal portion of the inferior basal cells shaded brown; 

 stigma dirty yellow; veins black; no appendix present. 



Hab. — N. Territory: Batchelor, and near Darwin (G. F. Hill). 



A species related to T. sequent Walker, but abundantly dis- 

 tinct from it. 



Pa r a type in Coll. Hill. 



Tabanus atmophorus, sp.n. 



(Plate i., fig.7). 



9. Length, 10; width of head, 4; length of wing, 9 mm. 



Head: face grey, with grey tomentum; cheeks ash-coloured, 



pubescence grey; subcallus black, tomentum ash-coloured; front 



black, tomentum ash-coloured, paler on the sides, pubescence 



