290 On the TabaniJie of the Australian Region. 



obscured by brown indistinct stripes ; dorsum shows little 

 trace of any pubescence ; sides with a few yellow hairs. 

 Scutellum the same as thorax. Abdomen narrow^ a little 

 obscured by darker colouring, the last two segments 

 brownish, golden-yellow short hairs appear on the seg- 

 mentations, with the exception of the last two segments, 

 where the j)ubescence is black ; underside similar, with 

 more golden-yellow hairs. Legs same colour as palpi or a 

 shade darker and redder, rather shining ; the tarsi dusky ; 

 pubescence on coxae and femora yellow, elsewhere black. 

 Wings dusky, on foi'e border and at base yellowish ; stigma 

 yellowish ; veins reddish j^ellow ; a small appendix present. 



3Iale is similar. Eyes with the large facets reaching the 

 apex of frontal triangle, but they are very Httle larger than 

 the small facets below ; the third joint of antenncB is only 

 dusky on apical half. IVings are rather paler in colouring 

 and the appendix is non-existent. 



Tahanus aurihirtus, ^ $ , sp. n. 



Type (female) and another from Townsville, Queensland 

 (F. >. Dodd), 1904, 284. 



Type (male) and another from same locality, 1902, 284, 

 and 1903, 319, and another male from Kuranda, N. Queens- 

 land ( F. P. Dodd, per Janson) . 



A medium-sized species with short golden-yellow pubes- 

 cence on the thorax and on the abdomen, this latter with a 

 reddish-yellow ground-colour. Antennae, palpi, and legs 

 reddish yellow. Frontal callus heart-shaped, reddish brown, 

 very indistinct. 



Length, female type 16 mm., the other female 14 mm. ; 

 male type 14 ram., others 14-15 mm. 



Face reddish brown, but covered with ashy-grey tomeutum 

 and with pale yellow short hairs. Beard pale yellow. 

 Palpi yellow, only slightly stout at base, ending in a long 

 slender point ; pubescence pale yellow or white, consisting 

 of fairly long hairs on the basal part. Antenna Ma.vs-ye\\ow, 

 the first two joints paler, with a few black hairs, the third 

 broad at its base ; the tooth represented by an obtuse angle. 

 Forehead narrow, parallel, about six times as long as it is 

 broad, covered with much the same coloured tomeutum as 

 the face, but the pubescence is brighter-coloured, more 

 orange-yellow, with some black hairs intermixed ; the frontal 

 callus is only indicated by a heart-shaped reddish-brown 

 spot, reaching the eyes, but Avith no lineal extension, it is 

 partially obscured by the pubescence which overlaps it, and 



