BY G. H. HARDY. 269 



TABANIDiE. 



Tabanus wynyardensis, sp. nov. 



Male. Hairy, black and brown; easily identified by the 

 broad black stripe down the brown abdomen, and the 

 absence of recurrent vein. Eyes densely hairy. 



Face greyish, with black hairs, beard yellow. Palpi 

 brown with long yellow, brown and black hairs; rounded 

 apically. Antennae brown, second joint light, the third 

 joint apically very dark. Thorax olive, with three black 

 stripes, scuteilum black, the whole covered with upright 

 black and brown hair. 



Abdomen brown, with a broad median black stripe 

 covering more than half the area, with black and brown 

 hair, which is upright on the basal segments and more or 

 less depressed apically; the apical margins of the segments 

 fringed with yellow hair. Underside of abdomen uniform 

 lighter brown, covered with shorter light hair. Legs 

 brown. Wings hyaline, stigma brown, appendix absent. 



Length. 13 mm. 



Hab. Wynyard, 3rd February, 1916. 2 males. 



A specimen in the collection of the Agricultural De- 

 partment is labelled "Swansea, Tas., Lea." 



The eyes of Tahanus similis, Macq., according to Miss 

 Ricardo, are bare, therefore it is unlikely this species is 

 the male of T. similis, which according to Mr. White's 

 key it would naturally run to. 



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Pelecorhynchus eristaloides, Walk. 



I took a second male specimen of this species at Geeves- 

 lon on the 19tli January, 1916. 



P. eristaloides, suhsjo. montanus., suhsiJ. nov. 



Differs from the typical eristaloides by having more 

 slender shape, smaller white spots on the thorax (about 

 half the size), narrower black stripes on the thorax (about 

 two-thirds the width), the entire absence of red hair, and 

 the spots on the wings being almost entirely obsolete. 



Type (male) taken in cop. with a female on the 6th 

 January, 191G. Another pair in cop., and a further two 

 :nales and two females were taken on the 10th January, 

 1916. Another suecinien, in the the collecfioii of ihe Agri- 

 cultural Department, was taken by Mr. A. M. Lea. 



Length. Male 15 mm., female 18 mm. 



Hab. Summit of Mt. Wellington, where it is fairly 

 abundant on the low flowering shrubs, but almost impos- 



