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tufts of white hairs on the tliorax at base of wing and by 

 the white-haired fringe of scutellum. 



Lengtli 15 mm. 



Face covered with ashy-grey tomentiim and in the centre 

 with hnig, fairly dense, white hairs. Beard wiiite. Palpi 

 yellowish with grey toraeutum, stont at base, ending in a 

 rather short point ; the pubescence scanty, chieHy pale. 

 Antenna dusky, tlie first two joints with black hairs. Eijfs 

 very distinctly pubescent. Forehead broad, about three 

 times as long as it is broad anteriorly, where it is distinctly 

 wider than at vertex ; forehead and subcallus a Itttle darker 

 than face ; frontal callus bare, protuberant, almost reaching 

 the eyes, pear-shaped, witli a short lineal extension, pitcliy- 

 brown in colour ; pubescence on forehead black. Thorax 

 blackish brown, with two grey tomentose stripes and another 

 on each side below the suture ; shoulders reddish with black 

 hairs; a tuft of white hairs below base of wings, and another 

 continued to the scutellum; pubescence on dorsum black. 

 Scutellum blackish brown, fringed with white hairs on its 

 posterior border. Abdomen blackish brown^ with broad 

 greyish-white tomentose segmentations and traces of white 

 hairs on them, which are distinct on the side edges of the 

 segments ; pubescence elsewhere on dorsum black. Leys 

 black, the fore coxse covered with ashy-grey tomeutum and 

 with white hairs; the tibiae reddish yellow, black at their 

 apices; femora and tibiae with chiefly white pubescence. 

 Wings clear, veins blackish; an appendix present ; stigma 

 brownish. 



Tabanus neocirrus, ? , sp. n. 



Type (female) from Swansea, Tasmania (Lea)^and another 

 female from S. Australia. 



The type is in the South Australian ]\Iuseum. 



A black species Avith whitish spots and segmentations on 

 the abdomen ; smaller than Tabanus cirrus, sp. n. 



Length, type, 12 mm.; the other female 10 mm. 



It differs from Tabanus cirrus in the following par- 

 ticulars : — Palpi slender, the long point nearly as long as 

 the slightly incra>sate basal part, covered with white 

 pubescence. Third joint of antenncB broad at base. Pubes- 

 cence on thorax black with many white hairs, which are 

 long anteriorly and shorter posteriorly. Abdomen with a 

 distinct stripe composed of white-haired, median spots ^ 

 segmentations also white-haired, thickest at the sides. 



