Tabanida' of the Austrah'an L'eo'ion. 389 



A species at once distinguislied by tlic absence of any 

 calli on the t'oreliead^ which, togctlier witli the abdomen, 

 legs, and palpi, is honey-yellow in colour. 



Length 12 mm. 



Face honey-yellow, with some greyish tomentum. Palpi 

 same colour, long ami slender, stouter at base. Beard 

 yellow, very scanty. Aniennfe ferruginous, the first two 

 joints piilcr in colour, the third joint with a small angle or 

 tooth. Forehead paralic^l, with golden-yellow pubescence, 

 about five times as long as it is broad. 7'/i<y?7/^ dark, covered 

 with short fulvous pubescence and tomentum of the same 

 colour. Abdomen stout, short, honey-yellow, appearing 

 darker at apex, as the pubescence at the sides is black, else- 

 where golden-coloured. Lef/s honey-yellow, tarsi blackish, 

 ])ubescence golden-yellow on femora, elsewhere chiefly black. 

 Ifinys clear yellow on fore border ; long appendix present. 



Group VII. 



Abdomen with one or more stripes, usually continuous. 



Tabanus cinerescens, MacLeay, King's Survey Coast Aus- 

 tralia, ii. p. 467 (1826) ; Austen, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. (8) xiii. p. 265 (1914). 



Tabanus cinerascens, Kinp:, see KertHSz, Cat. Dipt. iii. p. 2o4 (1908) ; 



AVied. Auszweifl. Iii.s. ii. p. 647 (1830). 

 Tabdiius tetrctUjieatus, Tavlor, Australian Institute Tropical Medicine 



lleport for 1911, p. 08, pi. xiv. fig. 20 (191-3). 



In Brit. Mus. Coll. are specimens from New South Wales 

 [Hunter) ; in German Ent. Museum females from Palmerston, 

 N. Australia ; in Mr. Wainwright's Coll. females from Port 

 Darwin, S. Australia. 



MacLeay's original description was of the vaguest and 

 shortest kind, as follows : — 



"Ashy grey, ferruginous, underneath whitish. Wings 

 hyaline, towards the base subluteous. Abdomen with an 

 ashy-grey median stripe and four ashy-gi*ey spots on each 

 side.''' 



Fortunately the species is easily identified, even from the 

 above ^cw words. The following description is based on the 

 fresh specimens : — 



A large reddish-brown species, with reddish legs and an- 

 tennae and yellow palpi. Abdomen with a faint grey tomen- 

 tose median stripe and grey tomcntose side-spots. 



Length 18-19^ mm. 



Face covered with yellowish tomentum and with some 



