218 Miss G. RicarJo on Tabanida3/»'om 



of ab'lorneu are absent. Legs duskier. The following- note 

 on the eyes of the male is furnished by the collector : — 

 " Eyes brilliant green, with reddish-brown lines across at 

 lower third ; lines sharply defined below, fading above ; 

 similar line round whole eye. Eyes appear reddish brown 

 in some li"hts.''^ 



Tabanus. 

 Group IV. 

 Tabanus angiisticallus, ? , sp. n. 



Type (female) and another from Melville Island, N. Aus- 

 tralia {IV. D. Dodd). The type is in the South Australian 

 Museum. 



A small greyish-brown species, which may be included 

 in Group IV., as the frontal callus is only represented 

 by a very small .black line. Anteuuse and legs reddish 

 yellow. 



Length 7i mm. (type) ; the other female 9i mm. 



Face and forehead covered with yellowish-grey tomentum ; 

 pubescence on face consists of a few white hairs and longer 

 brown hairs below and on cheeks. Palpi long and narrow, 

 hardly incrassate at base, yellow, with short black pubes- 

 cence. Beard consists of white hairs below and brown 

 above. Antennce bright red-yellow, the two first joints 

 pale yellow with black hairs, the third joint very broad at 

 base, with a few black hairs at angle. Forehead parallel, 

 about five times as long as it is broad, with some black 

 pubescence. Eyes bare. Thorax, scutellum, and abdomen 

 the same colour, blackish brown, with grey tomentum, and 

 with short black pubescence ; a few yellowish hairs at base 

 of thorax, segmentations of abdomen narrowly pale ; under- 

 side with wider yellow segmentations and white pubescence. 

 Legs yeWow, with black pubescence. Wings clear, grey; 

 veins and stigma very pale yellow ; long appendix present. 



Tabanus nemotubercidatus, Ricardo, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. (8) xiv. p. 388 (1915). 



Three females from Cape York. 



One female from Claudie River, N. Queensland. 



Tabanus nemopunctatus, Ricardo, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (8) xiv. p. 388 (1915). 



A series of females from Ycelanna, S. Australia, appear 



