r,V FRANK Ft. TAYLOR. 61 



Thorax black, with dull golden tomentum and dark, erect 

 pubescence, sides with mainly pale pubescence, scutellum similar; 

 pleurae black, with grey tomentum and pubescence, with some 

 yellowish-hairs below the wing-roots. 



Abdomen: first two segments yellowish-brown, third and 

 fourth reddish-brown, the fourth darker than third, the rest 

 blackish, their sides pale reddish-yellow, segmentations pale, 

 pubescence black; first three segments of venter pale reddish- 

 yellow, fourth dark red-brown, remainder blackish with pale 

 segmentations, pubescence pale. 



Legs : forelegs black, basal two-thirds of tibiae dusky-red, mid- 

 and hind-femora black, tibia; yellow, apices tinged with reddish, 

 first tarsals with basal half tinged reddish, the rest dusky, pubes- 

 cence black, mixed with pale hairs on the coxa? and femora, 

 tomentum on coxse and femora grey. 



Wings clear; veins brown, those on the basal half of wings and 

 the subcostal yellow; stigma pale yellowish-brown; no appendix 

 present. 



£. Head : face and cheeks as in £, but face not sunken; sub- 

 callus with grey tomentum; front parallel, narrow, with grey 

 tomentum and black pubescence, frontal callus dark reddish-brown 

 almost reaching the eves, pear-shaped, with a moderately stout, 

 blackish, lineal extension reaching the middle of the front; palpi 

 pale yellowi.sh, with mixed black and pale pubescence. There is 

 a small, indefinite, black spot in the centre of the second segment 

 of the abdomen, which is almost absent in £ . 



Hab.—T$. Territory: Darwin, Stapleton, and 34-Mile Railway 

 Station (G. F. Hill, No. 8). 



Apparently, a well defined species, most nearly related to I '. 

 nigrimanus Walker, but readily differentiated from it, infer 

 alia, by the legs and antennae 



TABANUS FUGI'l'IVUS, sp.n. 



9. Length, 13; width of head, 5: length of wing, 12 mm. 



Head: face and cheeks covered with grey tomentum, pubes- 

 cence grey, lower portion of face yellowish; beard grey, front 

 black, tomentum a dirty-grey, frontal callus black, pear-shaped, 



