64 AUSTRALIAN TABANID>£, iv , 



Tabanus sanguinarius Bigot. 

 Mem. Soc. Zool. France, v., p.675 (1892) [Atylotus]; Kieardo, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, (8), xv., p. 287 (1915). 

 // a &.-N.S.W.: Wauchope (R. J. Tillyard). 



Tabanus minor, sp.n. 

 (Plate i., fig.8). 



9. Length, 8-9; width of head, 3; length of wing, 8-8-5 mm. 



Head: face grey, lower portion yellowish, tomentum and 

 pubescence grey, cheeks grey; beard grey, scanty; front parallel, 

 black, with brownish tomentum and black pubescence, frontal 

 callus black, shining, pear-shaped, with a short, stout extension, 

 about two-thirds the width of the front and resting on the sub- 

 callus; palpi creamy, with black and pale pubescence, fairly stout 

 and ending in a blunt point; first two joints of antennae yellow, 

 with black pubescence; third joint reddish-yellow, with a small 

 angle, some black pubescence on its apex, annuli black. 



Thorax black, tomentum brown, pubescence pale; shoulders 

 pale, with black and grey pubescence; pleurae with grey tomentum 

 and pubescence; scutellum similar to thorax. 



Abdomen : first two segments yellowish brown, the remainder 

 brown with pale segmentations, tomentum brown, pubescence 

 pale; venter similar to dorsum. 



Wings: veins brown, faintly clouded with yellowish-brown; 

 stigma yellowish-brown; a long appendix present. 



Legs yellow, apex of fore-tibiae brown, fore-tarsi black, mid 

 and hind brown. 



Hah.- N. Territory : Darwin (G. F. Hill, Xos.109, 112). 



A small, obscure species closely related to T. nigrimanus 

 Walker, but differing, inter alia, in the antennae and wings. 



Paratype in Coll. Hill. 



Tabanus hilli, sp.n. 



(Plate it, fig. 9). 



£. Length, 1 1-5-1 3; width of head, 4-5; length of wing, 11-1 2mm. 



Head: face and cheeks ashen, lower portion of face yellowish, 



pubescence pale, scanty; beard grey; subcallus reddish-brown, 



with ash-coloured tomentum; front parallel, black, tomentum 



