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tufts of white hairs on the thorax at base of wing and by 

 tlie white-haired fringe of scutellum. 



Length 15 mm. 



Face covered with ashy-grey tomentnm and in the centre 

 with hjng, fairly dense, white hairs. Beard white. Palpi 

 yellowish with grey toraeutnm, stout at base, ending in a 

 rather short point ; the pubescence scanty, chiefly pale. 

 Antenna dusky, the first two joints with black hairs. Eijes 

 very distinctly pubescent. Forehead broad, about three 

 times as long as it is broad anteriorly, where it is distinctly 

 wider than at vertex; forehead and subcallus a Itttle darker 

 than face ; frontal callus bare, protuberant, almost reaching 

 the eyes, pear-shaped, with a short lineal extension, pitchy- 

 brown in colour ; pubescence on forehead black. Thorax 

 blackish brown, with two grey toraentose stripes and anotlier 

 on each side below the suture ; shoulders reddish with black 

 hairs; a tuft of white hairs below base of wings, and another 

 continued to the scutellum; pubescence on dorsum black. 

 Scutellum blackish brown, fringed with white hairs on its 

 posterior border. Abdomen blackish brown, Avith broad 

 greyish-white tomentose segmentations and traces of white 

 hairs on them, which are distinct on the side edges of the 

 segments ; pubescence elsewhere on dorsum black. Legs 

 black, the fore coxae covered with ashy-grey tomentura and 

 with white hairs; the tibiae reddish yelloM% black at their 

 apices; femora and tibiae with chiefly white pubescence. 

 Wings clear, veins blackish; an appendix present; stigma 

 brownish. 



Tabanus neocirrus, ? , sp. n. 



Type (female) from Swansea, Tasmania (Lea), and another 

 female from S. Australia. 



The type is in the South Australian Museum, 



A black species with whitish spots and segmentations on? 

 the abdomen ; smaller than Tabanus cirrus, sp. n. 



Length, type, 12 mm.; the other female 10 mm. 



It differs from Tabanus cirrus in the following par- 

 ticulars : — Palpi slender, the long point nearly as long as 

 the slightly incrassate basal part, covered with white 

 pubescence. Third joint of antenna broad at base. Pubes- 

 cence on thorax black with many white hairs, which are- 

 hmg anteriorly and shorter posteriorly. Abdomen with a 

 distinct stripe composed of white-haired median spots.;; 

 segmentations also white-haired, thickest at the sides. 



