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An easily recognized large reddish-brown species, the first 

 posterior cell of wings closed, and all veins of wing shaded 

 brown. 



Length 20 mm. 



Palpi yellow with black pubescence, fairly stout through- 

 out their length, ending in an obtuse point. Antenna 

 reddish, black at apex, with a well-defined tooth. Forehead 

 about eight times as long as it is broad, parallel ; frontal 

 callus oblong, chestnut-red, reaching eyes, with a long lineal 

 extension. Eyes apparently bare. Thorax (denuded) reddish 

 with darker stripes. Abdomen reddish brown, the dorsal 

 white spots very indistinct owing to denudation. Legs 

 described by Macquart as black ; the tibiae yellow, the 

 anterior and posterior pairs black at apices. 



Tabanus macquarti, Ricardo. 



Tnbanus limbatinevris, Macquart, Dipt. E.xot., Suppl. iv. p. 333 

 (185l>). 



Macquart named two species limbatinevris, the one from 

 Tasmania takes priority (1846). 



Type (female) in the Paris Museum, from the east coast 

 of New S. Wales, was examined by me in 1911, and a 

 specimen from the Brit. Mus. Coll. compared with it, from 

 Brisbane. 



In Brit. Mus. Coll. are females from Moreton Bay, New 

 S. Wales (Vigors's Coll.) ; from Brisbane (H. Tryon), Dec. 

 1903 ; from Burpengary and S. Queensland [Dr. T. L. 

 Bancroft). In Mr. Froggatt^s Coll., females from Queens- 

 land and Tweed River, New S. Wales. In Mr. Wainwriffht's 

 Coll. a long series from Herberton, Kuranda, and Towns- 

 ville, N. Queensland (Bodd), and females in the Grerman 

 Entomological Museum from the same localities and by the 

 same collector. 



An easily identified species, but somewhat variable in the 

 colour of abdomen and in the length of the long tooth of 

 third antetinal joint. Abdomen black, often reddish at the 

 sides, marked with white or yellowish-haired median spots 

 on all segments except the last one, these extend as a very 

 narrow, whitish-haired band to the sides where they expand 

 somewhat ; the underside with grey toraentose and white- 

 haired bands. Wings clear, tinged brown, leaving the 

 discal cell clear. Forehead almost parallel, about six times 

 as long as it is wide; the frontal callus oblong with spindle- 

 shaped extension, the forehead with greyish tomentum. 

 Palpi long, fairly stout, ending in an obtuse point covered 



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