288 Miss G. RicaiJo on the 



Mr. Froggatt records Tabanus sanguinarius uu6.er T.nigrO' 

 pictus in '' March Flies'' (Science Bull. New South Wales, 

 No. 3, p. 8, 1911), as found near Richmoud River, New 

 South Wales. 



Tabanus nigritarsis, Taylor, Report Austr. Inst. Tropical 

 Medicine, 1911, p. 18 (1913). 



This reddish-yellow species from Queensland, measuring 

 15-17 mm., may be distinguished from Tabanus avidus, Bigot 

 [Tabanus fuscipes^ Taylor, Tabanus taylori, Austen], by the 

 palpi, which are swollen and stout at the base, ending in a 

 rather long obtuse point; the frontal callus is narrower and 

 the femora are blackish, not cinnamon-coloured. 



Tabanus spatiosus, ? , sp. n. 



Type (female) and a long series fi-om Stannary Hills, 

 N. Queensland, circa 3000 ft. {Dr. T. L. Bancroft), 1901, in 

 Brit. Mus. Coll. 



A small yellowish-brown species, smaller than Tabanus 

 hyperythreus. Bigot, from which it is distinguished by the 

 •wider forehead ; this character also serves to distinguish it 

 from Tabanus nigrimanus, Wlk. From Tabanus nigritarsis, 

 Taylor, it may be distinguished by the colour of the legs. 



Antennce reddish yellow. Palpi pale yellow. Legs yel- 

 lowish. Wings clear, with an appendix present. 



Length 11^ mm. 



Face chamois-coloured, covered with grey tomentum on 

 the cheeks ; the sparse pubescence consists of short white or 

 yellow hairs. Beard white. Palpi the same colour or a 

 shade brighter, with short white and black hairs, slender, 

 nearly the same width throughout, ending in a short point. 

 Antenna Mars-yellow, the first two joints paler, the third 

 with its basal joint broad, and a small tooth. Forehead 

 same colour as face, parallel, broad, about four times as long 

 as it is broad anteriorly ; the frontal callus dark brown, 

 pear-shaped, not reaching the eyes, and with hardly any 

 lineal extension. Thorax olive-coloured, with recumbent 

 white piibescence and a few longer black hairs. Scutellum 

 identical. Abdomen ochraceous tawny, the three last seg- 

 ments darker, with obscure brown markings, all segments 

 covered with fairly numerous short whitish hairs, thickest 

 on segmentations, and in the middle in the form of a faint 

 stripe; underside identical. Legs ochraceous tawny, the 

 femora sometimes with a dark streak ; apical joints of tarsi 



