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Length 16 mm. 



Face covered with pale toraentum and some white short 

 hairs. Beard white. Palpi pale yellow, swollen on their 

 basal half, ending in a point which is about equal in length 

 to the basal half, some grey tomentura ou this latter; pubes- 

 cence black, white l)elow. Antenna blackish, the first two 

 joints reddish, the third joint broad at its base. Forehead 

 parallel, about five times as long as it is broad ; the frontal 

 callus chestnut-coloured, oblong, not reaching the eyes, with 

 a lineal extension ; forehead darker than face, with black 

 hairs. Thorax blackish brown, with two narrow grey tomen- 

 tose stripes and grey at the sides. Scutellum identical. 

 Abdomen blackish brown with broad grey tomentose bands, 

 extending into blunt triangular spots in the middle; the 

 ground-colour under the tomentum often appears reddish, 

 and the sides are reddish yellow ; pubescence on segmenta- 

 tions white, and on sides, elsewhere black mixed with the 

 white at sides, and rather long and abundant at sides; 

 underside reddish brown with grey tomentum. Legs dusky 

 in appearance, the femora with grey tomentum, the ti4)ise 

 obscurely reddish ; pubescence chiefly black, some white 

 hairs on the femora and long ones on their under sides. 

 Wings large, clear ; veins blackish brown, with an appendix ; 

 stigma yellowish. 



Group X. 



Tabanus nigritarsis, Taylor, Eeport Austr. Inst. Tropical 

 Medicine, 1911, p. 18 (1913) ; Ricardo, Ann. & Mag. 

 Kat. Hist. (8) xiv. p. 288 (1915). 



Two females from Northern Territory. 



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

 p. 675 (1892) [Atyhtus'] ; Ricardo, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. (8) xiv. p. 287 (1915). 



Series of females from Mt. Tambourine, S. Queensland. 



Tabanus kershawi, ? , sp. n. 



Type (female) and another from Claudie River, N. Queens- 

 land (J. A. Kershaiv), 11/12 and 13.2. 14. 



The type is in the National Museum, Victoria. 



A small black species, at once distinguished by the pale 

 tibiffi and the reddish-yellow antennae. 



Length 10 ram. 



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