BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. 523 



9. Head : face and front buff-yellow, the latter with its sides 

 parallel, and clothed with short, erect, yellow and black hairs; 

 beard yellowish; antennae with first two joints yellowish, clothed 

 with yellow hairs ; third joint rufous, the expanded portion 

 broad, with a small tooth; palpi yellowish, clothed with pale 

 hairs; proboscis dark brown, undersurface pale; eyes bare. 



Thorax olive-grey, clothed with golden hairs, with pale yellow- 

 ish ones laterally and at the wing-roots; scutellum similar to 

 thorax. 



Abdomen buff-yellow, with scattered, yellow pubescence, black 

 toward apex; venter buff-yellow. 



Leys yellowish; tarsi dark, with black pubescence. 



Wings clear, veins and stigma yellow; appendix long. 



Hab.~Q.: Bribie Island (H. Hacker; Jan., 1915). 



A medium-sized, yellowish species, which may be placed in 

 Group iv., the frontal callus being scarcely represented. Related 

 to 2\ angusticaUus Ricardo, but differs, inter alia, in its larger 

 size, colour, and in the presence of a tooth on the third joint of 

 the antennae. 



Type in Queensland Museum. 



Tabanus confusus, sp.n. 



Length, 12; length of wing, 11; width of head, 5 mm. 



A medium-sized, black species, with the first three abdominal 

 segments light reddish-brown. Antennae dusky. Legs black. 

 Wings clear, with long appendix. 



9. Head: face and cheeks pale reddish, densely clothed with 

 grey tomentum; beard white, fairly long; front black, covered 

 with silvery tomentum, with a short, fairly deep groove, about 

 one-third wider anteriorly than at vertex, latter brown; antennae 

 dark reddish-brown, annuli black, first segment with black hairs 

 above and grey ones in addition on the sides, second with black 

 ones, basal portion of third forming a broad angle with a small 

 tooth, with short, dense, black tomentum; palpi dusky, with 

 long, dense, white hairs at base and short, grey pubescence, 

 changing to black at apex; proboscis about four times the length 

 of palpi. 



