284 Miss G. Ricaido on the 



brown, pear-shaped, with short lineal extension. Eyes \y\i\\ 

 traces of pubescence. Thorax black, with some grey 

 toiuentum on dorsum ; slioulders obscurely reddish with 

 Ion-; dark pubescence. Scutellum same colour. Abdomen 

 similar in colouring, tlie grey tonientum thick, especially at 

 base ; there are traces of white pubescence on the segmenta- 

 tions laterally, with black hairs at apex and on the sides. 

 Legs with dark pubescence. Wings grey, on fore border 

 yellowish brown, at base pale brown ; all the veins shaded 

 Avith dark brown, which appears as blotches round all 

 the cross-veins ; stigma brown, veins brown ; appendix 

 present. 



Judging from the figure of the wing of Tabanus funebris, 

 Macq., this is a different species. 



Tabanus dubiosa, ? , sp. n. 



Type, a female, and another from Burnett River District, 

 Queensland (Dr. T. L. Bayicrofi), 19]2, 242. One female 

 from Katoomba, Blue Mts., New S. AVales, in Mr. Wain- 

 wright's Coll. 



A small black species with well-marked grey spots and 

 segmentations on abdomen. Antennae, palpi, and legs 

 black. 



Length 13 mm. 



Face covered with greyish tomentum and with some 

 brown hairs, among which are a few white ones. Beard 

 white. Palpi black, some grey tomentum on the basal half, 

 which is stout, ending rather abruptly in a long point ; 

 pubescence black, a few white hairs on basal half. Antennae 

 dusky brown, a dull reddish brown on the basal division of 

 the third joint ; pubescence on the first two joints black, the 

 tooth of third only represented by an angle. Forehead 

 broader anteriorly than at vertex, about three times as long 

 as it is broad, covered with gi'eyish tomentum ; the frontal 

 callus blackish, shining, large, almost reaching the eyes, 

 oblong, the lineal extension ending in a point. Thora.v 

 blackish covered with grey tomentum, and with short dense 

 grey pubescence, so disposed that the black ground-work 

 appears as stripes, sides with white hairs ; shoulders reddish 

 with brown hairs, ])ubescence on breast grey. Scutellum 

 blackish with long white hairs on posterior border. Abdo- 

 men black, the posterior border of each segment except the 

 first one with a narrow grey tonientose band, extended in 

 tiie middle as a median spot ; the black j)ubescenceon dorsum 

 short and dense, on the bands white ; underside similar, but 



