cf the FamiJi/ TahsLnides. 119 



point. The legs are black, the tibia ferruginous. Wings 

 with an appendix on fork of third longitudinal vein. 

 Hab. Australia. 



Diaiomineura /er^/a, White, MS., Walker, Dipt. Saund. pt. i. 

 p. 16 (1850) ; Walk. List Dipt. pt. i. p. 141 (1848). 



Tabanus lerda, White, MS., Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 355 (1876). 



See remarks on Erephrods adrelj White, which apply to 

 this species also. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



Diatomineura minima^ sp. n. (PI. I. figs. 4(^, 5 ? .) 



One male and two females. 



This may possibly be the same as D. gagantiaa^ Bigot 

 (Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. v. p. 620, 1892), but the description is 

 so incomplete that it is impossible to determine any fly from 

 it (Bigot himself doubts whether his species belongs to Dia- 

 tomineura). For the present,, therefore, I prefer to regard 

 the British Museum specimens as belonging to a distinct 

 species. 



Black (male and female). Face and forehead grey ; frontal 

 stripe on upper half of forehead black in female ; black hairs 

 on the face. 



Antenna? with the first two joints grey ; the third is reddish 

 at the base, black at the tip ; the palpi are reddish ; in the 

 female with black hairs, curved, broad at base, tapering to 

 a point. Beard scanty and whitish. Thorax with black 

 hairs at sides, and grey hairs on breast. Abdomen with fine 

 white hairs on lateral margins of segments, in the female 

 greyish ; underside of abdomen with grey tomentum. Legs 

 brown, whitish tomentum on the posterior femora of female. 

 Wings dark brown, paler on the posterior borders. 



Length 8 millim. 



Hab. Sydney or Moreton Bay, Queensland. 



Diatomineura auriliua, ? , Donovan, Gen. lUust. Ent. pt. i. 

 (1805). 



Tabanus aurifluus, Don. /. c. 



Famjonia soJida, 5 , Walker, List Dipt. pt. i. p. 141 (1848). 



Walker's type seems the same as auriflua^ of which Dono- 

 van gives a plate. Walker's description should be referred 

 to for the species, and may be amended thus as regards the 

 abdomen. Palpi broad at base, ending in a point. Ab- 

 domen with golden or white tufts of hair on the middle of 



