Australian Species of Txih^ixwx?,. 2G5 



margins and posterior angles of tlie first four segments, and 

 a white-haired median fleck on tlie hind margin of each of 

 the first five segments) is entirely black. 



"Tabanns fuscipes, n. sp." (p. G2, pi. xiv. fig. 15). — The 

 name fuscipes is preoccupied by T. fuscipes, Ricardo, 1908 

 (for a species found in South and C'entral Africa). The 

 writer therefore ventures to propose the designation Tabanus 

 taylori for the species under consideration. 



Judging from the specimen sent to the British Museum, 

 the description of the legs would seem to be partly mis- 

 leading ; the femora and tibiae are cinnamon-coloured — a very 

 diflerent thing from " clove-brown." 



"Tobanus gregarius, Erich," (p. 63, pi. xiv. fig. IG). — This 

 is not Tabanus gr eg arius, Erichs., and docs not even agree in 

 any way with the original description of that species. It is 

 a species nova. 



"Tabanus lineatus, n. sp." (p. Go, pi. xiv. fig. \7),= T. rufi- 

 notatus, Big. (syns. T. elest'eem, Summers, Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. ser. 8, vol. x., Aug. 1912, p. 221 ; and 7'. desig- 

 natus, Ricardo, Res. de I'Exp. Scient. Neerland. k la Nouvelle- 

 Guinee, vol. ix., Zool., livr. 3, p. 390, 1913). — The name 

 lineatus is preoccupied by Tabanus lineatus, Eabr. (^1781) 

 (= r. giganteus, Deg.). 



"Tabanus pseudoardens, n. sp." (p. G6, pi. xiv. fig. 18). — 

 As siiown by two ? ? of this species kindly forwarded by 

 Mr. Taylor, the dorsum of the abdomen is mummy-brown 

 (dark brown at the distal extremity), not '' clove-brown," as 

 stated in tiie description ; the first four ventral scutes are 

 fawn-coloured, not ''clove-brown"; and the wings in the 

 two specimens received liavc a well-marked brownish (not 

 " creamy ") tinge. 



"Tabanus tetralineatus, n. sp." (p. G8, pi. xiv. fig. 20),= 

 T. cinerescens, MacLeay (King's 'Narrative of a Survey of 

 the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia/ vol. ii. 

 p. 467, J 826). — The name 'J abanus cinerescens and its author 

 liave hitherto been somewhat unfairly treated, Wiedcnuuiu 

 and subsequent writers, including Kcrt^sz (' Catalogus 

 Dipteroruiii,' vol. iii. p. 231, 1908), having written cinerascens 

 instead of cinerescens, and attributed the designation to King 

 instead of to MacLeay. The title-page of the volume iu 

 which the description was published Ijears the date 1827 ; 

 the present writer is, howcvei', infornied by Mr. C. Davies 



