274 Miss G. Ricardo on the 



Coll., an;l two females in "NFr. Froiicli's Coll., both from 

 Endeavour Rivor, QtiopusLmd. ^Valkcr's type was described 

 from an unknown loeality, tlie other female from New 

 IloUand. Both specimens from Endeavour River have been 

 compared with the Macquart type in the Paris Mnscum 

 by myself and ISTonsieur SnrcouP. 1 consider them also 

 identical with \yalker's type. 



A nicdium-si/ed brownish spcfies with indistinct median 

 fifrey spots on the abdomen. Forehead narrow, antcnuie. and 

 IcfTs reddish. 



Length 12.\-15 mm. 



Face covered with greyish toraentum, and with some 

 few pale hairs. Beard yellowish. Palpi yellow with black 

 ])nbescence, stout, ending in a fairly fine point. Anfcnme 

 reddish yellow, dusky at apex, the first two joints with black 

 hairs, the third rather broad at the base with a distinct 

 angle. Forehead narrow, about eight times as long as it is 

 broad anteriorly, a third narrower anteriorly than at vertex ; 

 the frontal callus chocolate-brown, oblong, taking up nearly 

 the whole space between the eyes, with a narrow lineal 

 extension. Eyes bare. Thorax blackish with grey tomcu- 

 tum. Scittellum appearing reddish, being denuded. Abdomen 

 tawnv, with grey toraentose median spots not forming a 

 continuous stripe, on all the segments, commencing from 

 the second one, on which the spot is largest, being triangular, 

 pubescence on dorsum black ; underside the same colour 

 with pale segmentations. Leps with femora redc\ish, the 

 tibiie chamois-leather with black pubescence, tarsi blackish 

 at apex. Wings clear, stigma and veins yellow, no 

 appendix. 



Walker's type is in poor condition, but appears to be 

 identical with the specimens T compared with type in tlie 

 Paris Museum. 



Tabanus facliosus, Walker, Proc. Linn. Soc. London, iv. 

 p. 102 (1859) -, Ricardo, Records Indian Museum, iv. 

 no. vi. p. 1/9 (1911). 



Tfibanus fastiosus, Kertesz, Cat. Tabanidarum, p. 49 (1900). 

 Tabanus sucairvus, Walker, Proc. T^inn. Soc. iv. p. 102 (1859). 



The female type of Tabanus succurvus, Walker, from 

 ^Macassar, Celebes, the same locality as that of Tabanus 

 facfiosus, appears to me identical with this latter species, 

 though a dark-coloured specimen, the tibiae being only dull 

 reddish at base (not yellowish), and the spots on the abdo- 

 men not visible, probably owing to denudation ; the beard 



