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AUSTRALIAN TABAXIDyE[BiPTVAiA]. No. iii.* 

 By Frank H. Taylor, F.E.S. 



(From the Australian ListilnU' of Tropical MeAichiP., Toioisville.) 

 fPlate xxviii.) 



The Tabanid?e comprising tlie subject-matter of this paper 

 were mainly received from Dr. Hamlyn Harris, Director of the 

 Queensland Museum, whom I wish to thank for giving me the 

 opportunity to study these forms. 



One new genus and ten new species are described, and are dis- 

 tributed in the following genera — Pelecorhy7Lchus {one), Diatomi- 

 neura (one), Palimmeeomyia (g. et sp.n.), Silvius (two), Cceno- 

 prosopoii (one), and Tabanus (four). 



The disposition of the type-specimens is noted in the text. 



Subfamily Pangonin^e. 

 Pelecorhynchus maculipennis Macquart. 

 Dipt. Exot., Supp]., iv., p.332, PI. ii., fig. 6 (1850); Ricardo, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, (8), v., p.403(1910). 



//«6. — Queensland : Stradbroke Island (H. Hacker; Sept., 

 1915). 



Pelecorhynchus fusconiger Walker. 

 List. Dipt., i., p.l92 (1848) [Silvius]: v., Suppl. i., p.267 (1854) 

 [Dasybasis]; Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), v , p. 407 (1910). 

 Hab.—Q.: Stradbroke Island (H. Hacker; Sept., 1915). 



Pelecorhynchus mirabilis, sp.n. 

 (Plate xxviii., fig.l). 

 Length, ^, 10'75-ll-5; 9, 11 : width of head, ^, 4; 9, 3-75: 

 length of wing, ^, 10-25; 9, 10 mm. 



A striking species owing to the brightly coloured abdomen in 



* Continued from Vol. xli., p. 762, 1916(1917). 



