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and hairs on face are brown, not white as in the type of 

 Tabanusfactiosus. The two males from the Philippines, which 

 I phiced under T.factiosus, also have the beards brown. 



Tabanus sjjoliafns, (^ , Walker, Proc. Linn. Soc. London, iv. 

 p. 103 (1860). 



Type (male) from Macassar, Celebes, and another male 

 from Celebes (Wallace Coll.). 



These males are allied to Tabanus rubicundus, Macq.,from 

 India and Java. 



A reddish-yellow species measuring 19-20 mm. Eyes 

 with facets all equal. Antenme reddish, the third joint 

 dusky. Abdomen tawny, with traces of yellow or whitish- 

 haired median spots, and yellowish hairs on segmentations, 

 apex of abdomen blackish, a black spot on the second seg- 

 ment in the centre ; the other male has traces of paler bands 

 on the segmentations, pubescence on dorsum consists of 

 numerous short black hairs. T/ioi'ax and sciiteUum blackish. 

 Le(/s reddish yellow, the femora black, the tarsi dusky. 

 Wings clear, stigma and veins reddish yellow, no appendix 

 present. 



Tabanus claripennis, Bigot, Mem. Soc. Zool. de France, v. 

 p. 675 (1893) [Atylotiis]. 



The type in fair preservation is a female from Australia. 



A small narrow-bodied species with a dull yellow-coloured 

 abdomen and traces of round grey spots on sides and of a 

 blackish spot on second segment. It may be at once dis- 

 tinguished by the shining red-brown subcallus united to the 

 same-coloured, nearly square, frontal callus. The forehead 

 is brown, narrower anteriorly, barely four times as long as it 

 is broad. Palpi pale yellow, short and stout with black and 

 some white hairs. Antennts were incomplete when described 

 by Bigot. Wings clear, stigma yellow. 



Length 12 mm. 



Tabanus mctoriensis, ? , sp. n. 



Type (female) and two other females, all from Dandenong 

 Ranges, Victoria, in Mr. French's Coll. In Mr. Froggatt's 

 Coll. one female fi'om N. S. Wales. In German Ent. 

 Museum two females from N. S. Wales. A stout black 

 species with white-haired spots on the abdomen and veins of 

 wings shaded with brown, the palpi pale yellow, very long 

 and narrow. Antennse and legs black, the tibise testaceous. 



