284 Miss G. Ricardo on the 



brown, pear-shaped, with short lineal extension. Eijes with 

 traces of pubescence. Thorax black, with some grey 

 totnentum on dorsum ; shoulders obscurely reddish with 

 long dark pubescence. Scutellum same colour. Abdomen 

 similar in colouring, the grey tomentum thick, especially at 

 base ; there are traces of white pubescence on the segmenta- 

 tions laterally, with black hairs at apex and on the sides. 

 Legs with dark pubescence. Wings grey, on fore border 

 yellowish brown, at base pale brown ; all the veins shaded 

 with dark brown, which appears as blotches round all 

 the cross-veins ; stigma brown, veins brown ; appendix 

 present. 



Judging from the figure of the wing of Tabanus funebris, 

 Macq., this is a different species. 



Tabanus dubiosa, ? , sp. n. 



Type, a female, and another from Burnett River District, 

 Queensland (Dr. T. L. Bancroft), 1912, 242. One female 

 from Katoomba, Blue Mts., New S. Wales, in Mr. Wain- 

 wright's Coll. 



A small black species with well-marked grey spots and 

 segmentations on abdomen. Antennae, palpi, and legs 

 black. 



Length 13 mm. 



Face covered with greyish tomentum and with some 

 brown hairs, among which are a few white ones. Beard 

 white. Palpi black, some grey tomentum on the basal half, 

 which is stout, ending rather abruptly in a long point ; 

 pubescence black, a few white hairs on basal half. Antennae 

 dusky brown, a dull reddish brown on the basal division of 

 the third joint ; pubescence on the first two joints black, the 

 tooth of third only represented by an angle. Forehead 

 broader anteriorly than at vertex, about three times as long- 

 as it is broad, covered with greyish tomentum ; the frontal 

 callus blackish, shining, large, almost reaching the eyes, 

 oblong, the lineal extension ending in a point. Thorax 

 blackish covered with grey tomentum, and with short dense 

 grey pubescence, so disposed that the black ground-work 

 appears as stripes, sides with white hairs ; shoulders reddish 

 with brown hairs, pubescence on breast grey. Scutellum 

 blackish with long white hairs on posterior border. Abdo- 

 men black, the posterior border of each segment except the 

 first one with a narrow grey tomentose band, extended in 

 the middle as a median spot ; the black pubescence on dorsum 

 short and dense, on the bands white; underside similar, but 



