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ground-colour ; dorsum otlicrwise appears devoid of pubes- 

 cence ; underside the same, a little darker. Legs mahogany- 

 brown, the fore femora and the tibiae dull reddish yellow ; 

 the tarsi the same, becoming- darker on their apical joints. 

 Wings dark brown, with clear streaks in the base of the 

 marginal cell, in the upper part of the subinarginal cell, in 

 the two basal cells, and in the discal cell, and smaller ones 

 in the anal and fifth posterior cells, but more marked than 

 these is one clear spot in the base of the first basal cell and 

 one clear spot in the apices of each basal cell ; all the 

 posterior border of wing from the apex to the anal cell is 

 clear, the brown colouring continuing in a straight line to 

 the fork of the third vein and then forming a straight line 

 across the top of the discal cell to the apex of the anal cell, 

 the axillary angle beyond is clear. 



Species of Tabanus from New Zealand. 



Mr. Arthur White informs me that the fauna of New 

 Zealand has little or no relationship with that of Australia. 



Very few species of the genus have been recorded from 

 these islands, and the material in the Brit. Mus. Coll. is 

 very scanty. 



Hutton, in Trans. New Zealand Inst. i. p. 11, 1900, gives 

 a list of eight species which are now reduced to six as 

 follows : — ■ 



Tabanus sordidus, Wlk., 



Tabanus transversus, Wlk., 



Tabanus oplus, Wlk., 



Tabanus sarpa, Wlk., 



Tabanus bratnankii, Norvicki, 



Tabanus viridis, Hutton, 

 and Tabanus truneatus, Wlk., which is not a synonym of 

 Tabanus sarpa, Wlk., as Hutton states in his list. 



His species, T. viridis, is unknown to me, as is T. brat- 

 nankii, though I have studied the fairly full description by 

 the author, who says the prevailing colour is isabelline, the 

 eyes hairy, the forehead of female narrow and parallel, with 

 a small yellowish-coloured frontal callus, antennae reddish, 

 the last joint black, the legs red with black femora, abdomen 

 dark brown with an uninterrupted median stripe, and 

 angles and sides of segments leather-yellowish in colour; the 

 length is given as 13-14 mm., and the locality Queensland. 



T. transversus was included in the species from Australia 

 by an oversight in my paper in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 



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