STtiniES IN AIlSTltAI.IAN TA I'.ANIK.I": TAYI.OK. 65 



hi'owu, nnnnli black, tootli very small on expaiuU-d basal poi-tion, pubes- 

 cence black and scanty on Hi stand second segments; palpi i-eddisli-yellow, 

 pubescence black: jxoboscis veiy sliori, black. 



Thont.i-. — Dark gi'ey-black, witli sliort, scanty, mixed dark and pale 

 jmbescence, sides with dense, t'aii-ly long grey.-black bails ; scutellum 

 similar to thorax with some scanty grey pubescence ; pleura? grey- black 

 witli fairly long grey haiis. 



Abdomen. — Dull black, densely clothed with appressed l)lack hairs, 

 seginentations grey with grey pubescence and faint pale creamy median 

 spots on the first four segments, lateral margins of the first six segments 

 grey, diminishing in size toward the apex ; venter gre}' with whitish 

 pubescence, segmentations distinct. 



JjeijA. — Black, femora with fairly dense and long grey pubescence, 

 black on tibite and tarsi, longest on the tibia". 



Wincjii. — Grre}' ; veins black ; stigma dark yellowish-brown ; uo 

 appendix. 



Tijpi'. — Unique. It may be distinguished from 7'. li-erslmiri, Ricardo, 

 b}' its differently' colored anteiinoe. its sub-callus not shiny, the uniform front 

 and the wings. Differs from 7'. (in'Keoi(niiii}<ifii^, Taylor, in its lai'ger 

 frontal callus ; the first and second joints of the anteniiie being uniform 

 in color and the absence <tf an appendix on the wings. 



Hah. — Underbank, New South Wales. (Collector and donor. — A. 

 Musgrave, Dec. 1915). 



TaHANUS MACQUARTI, Ji'irardd. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xv. (1915), p. 277. 

 Huh. — South Australia. 



Group X. Species with the abdomen unicolorons, or almost so, some- 

 times darker at the ai)ex. 



Tai'.anus diminutus, Wa]J:er. 



List. Dipt., i. (1848), p. 183 ; Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xv. 

 (1915), p. 285. 



OJi>:. — There seems little doubt that the specimen before me is refer- 

 able to this species. There are a few points of disagreement with Miss 

 Ricardo's description of Walker's type, but it is said to be in a poor 

 state of preservation. The third joint of the antennae is blackish-brown 

 instead oi tawny and the frontal callus is a small, almost circular, light 

 brown plug without a lineal extension. 



Hid). — Gayndah, Queensland. (Collector. — G. Masters). 



TaI'.ANHS SANiUJINARIUS, Jligaf. 



Mem. Soc. Zool. Fiance, v. (1892), p. 675 ; Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. (8), XV. (1915), p. 287. 



Hah. — South Australia. 



