Ti\\)i\mL\ic of (Jie Australidu Uefjion. 395 



Length 18 mm. 



Face covered with greyish tomciitum and with white 

 liairs. Beard white. Palpi yellow, largo, stout, ending in a 

 sliort point, covered with sliort black pubescence, becoming 

 tliieker at the apices. Antenna reddisli, the first two joints 

 yellow with black hairs, the third joint wide at its base, with 

 a distinct tooth situated almost halfway up on the upper 

 l)order, the apical half of joint dusky in colour. Forehead 

 covered with yellowish-brown tomentura, slightly narrower 

 anteriorly, about seven times as long as it is broad ; the 

 Irontal callus small, pear-shaped, witli a lineal extension, 

 reddish brown. Thorax reddish brown, with indistinct 

 l)!ackish strij)es, and with grey tomentum ; pubescence 

 chiefly black, short. <S^6'm/6'//«w dusky, with grey tomentum. 

 Abdomen reddish brown, the black median stripe composed 

 of oblong black spots almost continuous, those on the first 

 three segments most distinct, their posterior borders with a 

 few yellow or white hairs ; pubescence of dorsum otherwise 

 black, at sides white; underside reddish, with the stripe 

 appearing through, Ler/s reddish yellow, the fore coxte 

 covered with dense white pubescence and grey tomentum, 

 the others the same but the pubescence less thick ; tarsi 

 daik in colour, the hind pair less so ; the pubescence on 

 tibise white, elsewhere black. IVings clear, large, veins 

 yellow. 



This species and T. laticallosiis are distinguished from 

 Tabanus sordidus, Walker, List Dipt. v. p. 256 (1854), from 

 xVew Zealand, by the smaller, narrower, frontal callus and by 

 the narrower forehead. 



Tabanus laticallosus, ? , sp. n. 



Type (female) and two other females from Moreton 

 Island, Moreton Bay, near Brisbane (Voyage ' Rattlesnake,' 

 Macffillivray), in Brit, Mus. Coll. ; and a male from Strad- 

 brooke Island, Queensland, 8. x. 1911 {H. Hacker), 



A species nearly allied to T.parvlcal/osus, but distinguished 

 by the black antennae, larger frontal callus, darker legs, 

 brownish wings, and b}' the less distinct black stripe, which 

 hardly consists of more than a black oblong spot, on the 

 second segment. Beard yellowish. Palpi reddish, with 

 black pubescence and grey tomentum. Forehead i)arallel ; 

 frontal callus reddish brown, larger than that of 7'. parvi- 

 c:illosns. Thorax and sculclluni darker. Abdomen reddish 

 brown, darker at the apex, the posterior borders of segments 



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