'27-2 Aliss G. Rioardo on the 



Palpi pale yellow, stout on basal half, the apieal lialf ciulinj^ 

 in a tine jjoint, witli yellow ami hlaek hairs. Antentue 

 blackish. Forehead abont a thii'il narrower anteriorly than 

 at vertex and abont six times as long as it is broad anteriorly ; 

 frontal callus long and narrow, not reaching the eyes. 

 Thorax, scutcUum, and ahdomen very much the same colour, 

 all denuded. Abdomen narrow, median stri[)c with traces of 

 white hairs, which arc also present at the sides. IViugs 

 clear, shaded pale brown along the longitudinal veins, stigma 

 and veins yellowish. 



Tabamis pseudoardens, Taylor, Austr. Inst. Trop. Med. lUll, 

 p. 0(5, pi. xiv. fig. 18 (1913) ; Austen, Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (8) xiii. p. 265 (11)14). 



This narrow-bodied mummy-brown species, measuring 

 12-13 mm., comes from Queensland. Palpi long and 

 slender. Forehead narrow, parallel, frontal callus ol)long, 

 raised, with a lineal extension. Abdonwii with a yellow- 

 haired indistinct median stripe. Leys reddish brown. 



Group VIII. 



Species with median or lateral spots, or both, on abdomen, not usually 

 forming a continuous type. 



Tabarius propinquns, Macquart, Dipt. exot. Suppl. v. p. 47 

 (1854), descriljcd as in Mr. liigot's Coll. from Sydney, is 

 proljably lost, as it is not among the types sent me by 

 iMr. Collins from the late Air. ^'erral^s Coll. It is described 

 as black with three series of white spots on the abdomen. 

 Legs black, tibise testaceons. 



Length 18 mm. 



Part of the abdomen was wanting when described. 



Tabanus leucophilus, Walker, List Dipt. i. p. 154 (1848). 



Type (^female) from New Holland. 



A stout species with pale whitish wings, abdomen blackish 

 with three rows of white spots. Antenna reddish. 



Length 19 mm. 



A species very easily recognized. Is it possible that it 

 does not belong to this region at all? I have seen nothing 

 like it as yet in collections from Australasia. 



F^ace covered with ashy-grey tegmentum and with long 

 pale yellow hairs. Palpi canary-coloured, stout, ending in 

 a short ])oint, pubescence apparently black. Antennce broken 

 off, described by Walker as ferruginous, the first two joints 



