392 Miss G. Rlcurclo 07i the 



A medium-sized yellowish species, with a narrow grey 

 median stripe on a wider darker stripe on the yellowish 

 abdomen. Antennae, palpi, and legs all yellowish. 



Length 12|^ mm. 



Face covered with ashy-grey tomentum and some long 

 pale hairs. Beard white. Palpi pale yellow, with spai-se 

 black pubescence, rather stout, ending in a point. AntenrKB 

 reddish yellow, the third joint (which is incomplete) with a 

 distinct tooth, the first two joints paler in colour, with black 

 pubescence. Forehead broad, about four times as long as it 

 is wide anteriorly, almost parallel ; frontal callus large, 

 square, not reaching eyes, reddish brown, with a short lineal 

 extension. Thorax dark in colour, with traces of lighter 

 tomentum. Scutellum is similar. Abdomen (faded) warm 

 buff-colour, with a broad median mummy-brown stripe, on 

 Avhicli appears a narrow grey tomentose stripe ; the apex and 

 sides are also mummy-brown; underside very similar, Imt 

 no stripes are visible. Legs reddish yellow. Wings clear, 

 stigma yellow; no appendix present. 



No fresh specimens of this species occur in any of the 

 collections to which I have had access. 



Tabanus rufinotaius. Bigot, Mem. Soc. Zool. de France, v. 

 p. 673 (1892) {Atylotus). 



Tcihayius elesteem, Summers, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) x. p. 224 



(1912). 

 Tabanus desiqnnhis, Ricardo, Et5sultats Expedition Sci. Neerlandaise 



NoLiv. Giiiuee, ix. (3) p. 390 (1913) ; id. Tijd. Ent. Iv. p. 349 (1912). 

 Tabanus lineatus, Taylor, Austr. Inst. Trop. Med. 1911, p. 16 (1913) ; 



Austen, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xiii. p. 265 (1913). 



Since the publication of my description of T. designatus 

 I have had the opportunity of examining Bigot's type in the 

 late Mr. Verrall's collection, and establishing the identity of 

 my species with it. Females of this species are in the Brit. 

 Mus. Coll. from S. Queensland and S. Australia ; in 

 Mr. Froggatt's Coll. from New South Wales ; in Mr. Wain- 

 wrighfe's Coll. from Kuranda and Townsville, Queensland ; 

 in the German Ent. Museum from Herberton [Dodd), xii. 

 1900, 3700 ft. 



Mr. Taylor records it from Queensland, Miss Summers 

 from Port Darwin, S. Australia, and the specimens I named 

 as T. designatus were collected in Dutch New Guinea. 

 Bigot's type came from Australia. 



The species is easily recognized by the presence of three 

 greyish stripes on the reddish-brown abdomen. 



