Tabankla3 of tlie Australian Region. 277 



liairs on face white. Palpi cream-coloured, slender^ endin;^ 

 ill a long point; pubescence chiefly white, a few black hairs 

 on upper border. AnteniKP. reddish, the first two joints 

 yellower with black pubescence, the third rather short, broad 

 at base, Mitli very slight tooth. Subcallus yellowish, covered 

 with grey tomentum. Forehead broad, parallel, about three 

 times as long as it is broad anteriorly, covered with brownish- 

 yellow tomentum and with some few black hairs. Frontal 

 callus shining chestnut-colour, pear-shaped, not reaching the 

 eyes, with a short lineal extension. Eyes with slight pubes- 

 cence. Thorax olivaceous black, covered Avitli some grey 

 tomentum and with recumbent, short, golden, inconspicuous 

 pubescence ; the longer hairs at sides brownish. Scutellum 

 identical. Abdomen darker than thorax, covered with 

 isabella-coloured tomentum, and with short golden hairs on 

 the posterior borders of segments, the first two segments 

 reddish at the sides ; underside lighter in colour, covered 

 with greyish tomentum. Legs cinnamon-coloured, the 

 femora darker, with grey tomentum and white hairs; pul)es- 

 cence otherwise cliieHy black, apical tarsal joints blackish. 

 1l'int/s clear, stigma pale yellow, veins darker, appendix 

 present. 



j\Jr. Marshall gives me the following additional localities, 

 the collectors being Dr. J. Burton Cleland and Dr. E. W. 

 Ferguson : — four females, i. & ii. 1915 ; one female, 5. xii. 14, 

 Milson Island, Hawkesbury River; one female, Sydney, 

 20. xii, 14. Eyes of a dull brown colour i» life. 



Tabanus vetustus, ? , Walker, List Dipt. i. p. 179 (1848). 



Type (female) from Swan River, West Australia. 



Another female from Encounter Bay, S. Australia, 1907 

 {Lr. J. B. Cleland), with the following note: — "'Bites 

 severely " ; and another female from unknown locality. 



A medium-sized pale-coloured species, not unlike the 

 European Tahanus fiilvus in general appearance. Forehead 

 with no callus. Tibiae reddish yellow. Abdomen covered 

 with short grey pubescence. 



Length 15 mm. 



Face covered with ashy-grey tomentum and with some 

 short white inibescence. Palpi pale chamois-coloured, stout 

 for more than half their length, ending in a slender point, 

 ])ubescence scanty, pale-coloured. Antennae reddish yellow^, 

 the last four divisions of the third joint black ; third joint 

 wide at base, with the angle representing the tooth not quite 

 halfway up on the outer border, the first two joints paler in 



