282 Miss G. Ricardo on the 



yellow, the femora blackish, \fith long white hairs and grey 

 toraentura ; the fore tibise blackish on their basal halves, 

 the tibiae dusky. Wings clear, stigma yellow, veins reddish 

 yellow ; no appendix present. 



$ . Similar, the median spots of abdomen hardly visible. 

 Eyes with the large facets occupying two-tliirds of the 

 surface, reaching beyond the apex of the frontal triangle. 

 Lecjs are wanting. 



Tabanus germanicus, ? , sjj. n. 



Type (female) and a series of females from Cairns and 

 Herberton, N. Queensland, in German Ent. Museum. 



A small species, with slender pale yellow palpi, red an- 

 tennsQ, and yellowish-brown legs. Forehead narrow. Abdo- 

 men reddish brown, M'ith grey bands and spots. 



Length 9 mm. 



Face covered with greyish tomentura and with a few scat- 

 tered white hairs. Beard white. PftZ/iii^ale yellow, slender, 

 a little stouter at base, ending in a long fine point ; pubes- 

 cence white and yellow. Antenna bright reddish yellow, the 

 first two joints pale yellow Avith black pubescence, the third 

 with the basal joint large and broad, the tooth obtuse. 

 Subcallus often partially denuded, when it appears shiny and 

 testaceous in colour. Forehead parallel, nearly five times 

 as long as it is broad, covered with yellowish tomentum and 

 with some short black hairs ; frontal callus shining reddish 

 brown, pear-shaped, not reaching eyes, with a very short 

 lineal extension. Eyes bare. Thorax blackish brown, but 

 in well-preserved specimens appearing grey, being covered 

 with grey tomentum, the pubescence consisting of appressed 

 scattered yellow hairs, with a few longer black hairs; breast 

 grey, with long white hairs. Scutellum same as thorax. 

 Abdomen reddish brown (when denuded reddish and dai'ker 

 at apex), the grey bands on posterior borders of segments 

 almost half as Avide as the segment, narrower on the second 

 one, and altogether absent on the first segment, composed 

 of grey tomentum Avith yellowish pubescence ; there are 

 indications of grey median triangular spots of the same 

 comjDosition ; underside reddish at base, darker at apex ; 

 pubescence of dorsum on the parts not occupied by the grey 

 bands is black and rather dense, on underside white. Legs 

 yellowish, the femora at base blackish, with grey tomentum 

 and Avhite hairs, often prolonged on the outer side ; basal 

 half of fore tibite and apices of others blackish broAvn, all 

 the tarsi dark ; pubescence on tibicc black intermixed Avith 



