Tabanidse of the Australian Region. 39 



Type (male) from Kuranda, Queensland (F. P. Dodd), 

 1914. 281. Both in Brit. Mns. Coll. 



Males and females in German Ent. Museum from Her- 

 berton, Queensland {Dodd), 11. 1911, 3700 ft. 



Males and females from Kuranda, Queensland {Dodd), 

 Sept. 1913. 



A small compact species, with a yellowish thorax and 

 reddish-brown abdomen, the latter with yellow-haired 

 median spots forming a stripe. Antennae, palpi, and legs 

 reddish yellow ; forehead parallel, with no frontal callus. 



Length, ? 8, $ 7 mm.; proboscis 1 mm. 



? . Face grey, covered with yellowish tomentum and a 

 few short brown hairs in centre, very slightly convex, divided 

 from the cheeks by a deep furrow. Beard pale yellow. 

 Palpi tawny, with short black pubescence, the second joint 

 long and slender, wider at base and a little concave, ending 

 in an obtuse point, more than half the length of the proboscis. 

 Antenna xanthine-orange, the last three divisions of the 

 third joint blackish, the first two joints paler, with black 

 hairs ; two or three black hairs are visible on apex of third 

 joint. Forehead same colour as face, with short black pubes- 

 cence. Thorax buckthorn-brown, covered with short, thick, 

 yellow or yellowish-white hairs, some brown hairs are inter- 

 mixed with these (in many specimens, owing to denudation, 

 the thorax is nearly bare) ; sides with longer yellow hairs ; 

 breast with whiter hairs. Scutellum identical. Abdomen 

 raw-umber in colour, with rather thick, short, black pubes- 

 cence ; the yellow-haired stripe is very distinct in good 

 specimens, consisting of a triangular broad spot on the 

 second segment and an almost equal-sized one on the third 

 segment ; on the following segments they are wider ; under- 

 side paler, covered with short, dense, white pubescence. 

 Legs yellow-ochre ; the coxse darker, with long white hairs ; 

 the femora with long, fine, black hairs, the posterior pair 

 with rather short, thick, yellow hairs ; tibise and tarsi with 

 black pubescence. Wings brown on fore border and at 

 apex ; stigma reddish brown ; veins yellowish brown ; first 

 posterior cell open at border, sometimes a little narrower. 

 No appendix. The spurs on the hind tibiae are very stout 

 and long. 



$ . Very similar. Beard and palpi lighter-coloured, the 

 palpi small, the usual shape, with black hairs. Eyes with 

 facets all equal. Abdomen lighter in colour, more the colour 

 of the antennas, showing a few isolated round black spots on 

 the dorsum ; the yellow-haired stripe much less conspicuous, 

 or, rather, non-existent ; the dorsum with only black hairs, 



