222 Miss G. Rlcaido on Tahiui'ulx fro :n 



Face black, with some brown tomentiim and black Inirs. 

 Palpi blackish, very stout, ending in a very sliDrt point ; 

 pn!)escence black. Beard black. Antenntc reddish yellow, 

 with a very small anp;le on the third joint ; some hbick liairs 

 on tlie first two joints. Siibcallns shining black. Forehead 

 a third narrower anteriorly, al)ont eight times as long 

 as it is broad anteriorly, covered with grey and brown 

 tomentnm ; frontal callns small, oblong, reaching tlie eyes, 

 with a lineal extension. Eyes bare, with traces of three 

 stripes. Thorn.v, scutellum,, and abdomen bhickisli with some 

 few appreSsed grey liairs on tlsorax: and scntellnm, and on 

 segmentations of abdomen; pnbescencc at sides black. Legs 

 black, the fore tibiae whitish, darker at extreme apex, the 

 middle tibiae and the hind pair wholly whitish; fore tarsi 

 black, tlie others almost wholly Avhitish. Wings clear, 

 veins and stigma yellow; no appendix. 



Gronp XI. 

 Subgenus Tiierioplectes. 

 Species with pubescence on the eyes. 



Tabanus regis georgii, Macqnart, Dipt. Exot. i. p. 13,2 

 (1838); liicardo, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xvi. 

 p. 276 (1915). 



One female from S. Australia {Tiev. A, P. Burgess). 

 (''Eyes in this species are dull-coloured^': note by the 

 collector.) 



Tabanus circwndatus , Walker, List Dipt. i. p. 185 (1848) ; 

 liicardo, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xiv. p. 280 

 (1915); White, Royal Soc. Tasmania, 1915, pt. ii. 

 p. 14. 



( Tabanus nepos, Wlk. ; abstersus, Wlk. ; brevideniaius, 

 Macq. ; and hebes, Wlk., are all synonyms of this species.) 



A series of females from Yeelanna, S. Australia, aud from 

 Swansea, Tasmania. 



Tabanus cirrus, ? , sp. n. 



Female (type) from Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, 

 New South Wales. 



A stout, medium-sized, black species, distinguished by the] 



