280 Miss G. RicarJo on the 



and tlie posterior borders of segments grey tomentose, 

 forming narrow bands ; pubescence on dorsum blackish. 

 Le(/s reddish yellow, femora and tarsus darker. Wings clear, 

 veins and stigma yellow. 



Tabanus mmi^^w^, Walker, Proc. Linn. Soc. iv. p. 103 (1860). 



Tyi)e (female) from Macassar, Celebes. 



A species allied to Tabanus dorsobimaculatus, Macq., and 

 Tabanus sequens, Wlk., but distinguished from botli by the 

 very narrow forehead. Keddish yellow, abdomen with well- 

 marked median grey spots and bauds. Legs blackish, fore 

 tibiae pale yellow on basal half, otlier tibise reddish yellow. 



Length 14 mm. 



Face covered with ashy-grey tomentum and with a few 

 long white hairs. Beard white. Palpi chamois-coloured, 

 with black ])ubescence, only sliglitly stouter at base, ending 

 in an obtuse point. Antenna reddish brown, the first two 

 joints reddish yellow with black hairs. Forehead covered 

 with darker tomentum than the face, very narrow, anteriorly 

 only half the Avidth that it is at the vertex; the frontal 

 callus chestnut-brown, oblong, very narrow, almost reaching 

 the eyes, prolonged as a lineal extension more than half the 

 length of forehead. Thorax and scutellum blackish, with 

 some grey tomentum ; pubescence appears to have been 

 largely pale-coloured ; shoulders reddish, with black hairs. 

 Abdomen tawny, the last three segments blackish; the trian- 

 gular median spots appear most distinct on the second to 

 the fifth segments, not forming a continuous stripe; the grey 

 tomentose bands on the segmentations appear on every 

 segment except the first and last one, and are narrow, be- 

 coming broader at the sides ; pubescence on dorsum black, 

 with longer black hairs on the apical segments; underside 

 tawny, with lighter bands, the last two segments blackish. 

 Legs : femora blackish, with grey tomentum and long white 

 liairs; the fore tibise with the basal half whitish or pale 

 yellow, black at apex, the other tibiae tawny, with black 

 liairs ; all the tarsi blackish. Wings clear, with yellowish- 

 brown shading, most marked on the first, second, and third 

 longitudinal veins ; no appendix present ; stigma and veins 

 reddish yellow. 



Tabanus parvus^ Taylor, Australian Inst. Tropical Medicine 

 Keport for 1911, p. 19 (1913); Austen, Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (8) xiii. p. 266 (1914). 



This is a small species, 8-10 mm. long. 



