218 Mitfs G. RicarJo on Tabanid£e//om 



of abloraen are absent. Lg^;/^ duskier. Tlie following note 

 on the eyes of the male is funrished by the collector : — 

 " Eyes brilliant green^ with reddish -brown lines across at 

 lower third; lines sharply defined below, fading above; 

 similar line round whole eye. Eyes appear reddish brown 

 iu some liuhts.'' 



Tabanus. 



Group IV. * 



Tabanus angusticallus, $ , sp. n. 



Type (female) and another from Melville Island, N. Aus- 

 tralia (JV. D. Dodd). The type is in the South Australian 

 Museum. 



A small _^-reyish-brown species, which may be included 

 in Group IV., as the frontal callus is only represented 

 by a very small black line. Antennae and. legs reddish 

 yellow. 



Length 7\ mm. (type) ; the other female 9| mm. 



Face ViW^ forehead covered with yellowish-grey tomentutn ; 

 pubescence on face consists of a few white hairs and longer 

 brown hairs belo\v and on cheeks. Palpi long and narrow, 

 hardly iucrassate at base, yellow, with short black pubes- 

 cence. Beard consists of white hairs below and brown 

 above. AntenncB bright red-yellow, the two first joints 

 pale yellow with black hairs, the third joint very broad at 

 base, with a few black hairs at angle. Forehead parallel, 

 about five times as long as it is broad, viith some black 

 pubescence. Eyes bare. Thorax, scutellum, and abdomen 

 the same colour, blackish brown, with grey tomentum, and 

 ■with short black pubescence ; a few yellowish hairs at base 

 of thorax, segmentations of abdomen narrowly pale ; Tinder- 

 side w^ith wider yellow segmentations and white jmbescence. 

 Legs yellow, with black pubescence. Wings clear, grey; 

 veins and stigma very pale yellow ; long appendix present. 



Tabanus nemotuberculatus^ Ricardo, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. (8) xiv. p. 388 (1915). 



Three females from Cape York. '^ 



One female from Claudia River, N. Queensland. | 



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Tabanus nemopunctatus, Ricardo, Ann. & jNIag. Nat. Hist. ;.' 



(8) xiv. p. 388 (1915). ■^ 



A series of females from Ycelanna, S. Australia, appear 



