272 Miss G. Ricaido on the 



Pseudotabanus distinctus, sp. n. 



Type (female) in Brit. Mus. Coll. from Inkermann, near 

 Townsville, N. Queensland (W. Stalker), 1908, 151. 



Black ; the abdomen with yellowish bands. Antennas 

 and legs black. Wings grey, tinged deep brown on the fore 

 border and more widely so at the apex on the submarginal 

 cell. 



Length 14 mm. ; proboscis 2 mm. 



Face covered with grey tomentum and with some silvery- 

 white short hairs in the centre and on the cheeks. Beard 

 same colour. Palpi rather long, two-thirds the length of 

 proboscis, blackish, a little stout at base, ending in a long 

 point. Antennae same colour, the third joint with an angle 

 at base on its first division, the first two joints with a few 

 dark hairs. Forehead more yellowish in colour than the 

 face, parallel, about five times as long as it is broad ; the 

 frontal callus long, almost lineal, slightly enlarged ante- 

 riorly, reaching the ocelli. Eyes bare. Thorax black, with 

 two lineal grey tomentose stripes, posteriorly, with a narrow 

 grey border which extends up the sides as far as the suture. 

 Shoulders above this latter are yellowish. Breast and sides 

 blackish, with grey tomentum and white hairs. Sculellum 

 black, with a few white hairs. Abdomen blackish brown, the 

 posterior borders of all segments brownish yellow fading 

 into grey; there is also a narrow band on anterior border of 

 second segment; the bands are widest on the first two 

 segments ; pubescence on bands yellowish white, elsewhere 

 black ; underside same as dorsum. Legs wholly blackish 

 brown. Wings with no appendix, fore border narrowly 

 yellow as far as the stigma, which is brown. 



Pseudotabanus queenslandi, sp. n. 



Tvpe (female) from Kuranda, Queensland {F. P. Dodd), 

 1914, 381, in Brit. Mus. Coll. 



Another female from Endeavour River, Queensland, in 

 Mr. French's Coll. 



A blackish species, with median grey spots and bands on 

 abdomen. 



Length 144 mm. 



Face covered with ashy-grey tomentum, convex in the 

 centre, divided from the cheeks by a deep furrow ; pubes- 

 cence on face scanty, consisting of a few short white or 

 yellow bail's. Beard white. Palpi same shape as those of 

 Pseudotabanus distinctus, black, two-thirds the length of the 



