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

 callus is pitchy brown in colour, furrowed in the centre, not 

 reaching the eyes ; black hairs at sides of forehead. Eyes 

 distinctly pubescent. Thorax blackish. Abdomen blackish, 

 the sides of the first three segments tawny, the segmenta- 

 tions narrowly pale ; underside tawny. Legs dull reddish, 

 duskier at tips. Wings clear, veins brown, stigma yellowish 

 brown. 



Tabanus regis georgii, Macq. Dipt. Exot. i. p. 132 (1838). 



The type (female) from Port du Roi George, New Holland, 

 was seen by me in the Paris Museum a few years ago, in bad 

 preservation ; however, I identified four females in the Brit. 

 Mus. Coll. as this species, and feel confident they are this 

 species, which may possibly be identical with Tabanus post- 

 ponens, Walker ; the only difference in these from the 

 Walker type is the shape of the frontal callus, which is much 

 broader, though not reaching the eyes, with hardly any lineal 

 extension in three of the specimens ; the colour is a dark 

 brown, the femora are rather dusky at their base. The 

 stripes on the thorax are more distinct and appear as six in 

 number, the specimens being in good preservation. They 

 come from Inkerman, near Townsville, N. Queensland (W. 

 Stalker), 1908, 151, and S. Queensland (Dr. T. L.Bancroft), 

 1908, 72. 



Tabanus oculatus, ? , Ricardo. 



Tabanus pusillus, Macq. Dipt. Exot., Suppl. v. p. 49 (1854), uomeii 

 bis lectuni. 



Type (female) in the late Mr. Verrall's Coll. from Sydney, 

 New South Wales. 



Two females in Brit. Mus. Coll. from S. Queensland 

 (Dr. T. L. Bancroft), 1908. 



The type, which is in bad preservation, was described by 

 Macquart as having the eyes naked, evidently an oversight 

 on his part, as the pubescence on the eyes of the type is 

 distinct, though very sparse and very indistinct in one of the 

 fresh females. It is very similar in general appearance to 

 my new species Tabanus germanicus from N. Australia, in 

 which the eyes are quite bare. 



A small brown species, with inconspicuous yellow hairs on 

 the abdomen ; the antennae and legs reddish yellow. Wings 

 clear, with an appendix. 



Length 11 mm. 



Face covered with grey torncntum, ground-colour yellowish ; 



