Tabaiiid.'i' cf the Ansfrdltait Ukjiih. -75 



ami liairs on face arc l)r()\vii, not wliitc as in the type ot 

 Tabaniisfact'wsus. The two males from the I'iiilippines, wliicli 

 I placed under T. factiosua^ also have the beards brown. 



Tabnnus .tpoliofus, cj, Walker, Proe. Linn. Soc. London, iv, 

 p. 103 (IHGO). 



Type (male) from Macassar, Celebes, and another male 

 from (.'elebes (Wallace ('oil.). 



These mrdes are allied to Tabunus ruh'icniitlus, ^[acq.ifrom 

 India and Java. 



A reddish-yellow species measurinjij lS}-2() mm. Eyes 

 with facets all eciual. Anfounc reddish, the third joint 

 dusky. Abdomen tawny, with traces of yellow or whitish- 

 haired median spots, and yellowish hairs on segmentations, 

 apex of abdomen blackish, a black spot on the second scgf- 

 ment in the centre ; the other male has traces of paler bands 

 on the segmentations, pnlieseenee on dorsum consists of 

 numerous short black hairs. Thorax i\\n\ scvti'lliini blackish. 

 Lei/s reddish yellow, the fi-mora black, the tarsi dusky. 

 U liufs clear, stigma and veins reddish yellow, no appendix 

 present. 



Tabnuus cluri/xnuiis, Bigot, Mem. Soc. Zool. dc France, v. 

 p. or.") ( 1.SU2) [Alijlotits^. 



The type in fair preservation is a female from Australia. 



A small narrow-bodied species with a dull yellow-coloured 

 abdomen and traces of round grey spots on sides and of a 

 blackish spot on second segment. It may be at once dis- 

 tinguished by the shining red-brown snbcallus united to the 

 same-coloured, nearly sqjjare, frontal callus. The forehead 

 is brown, narrower anteriorly, barely four times as long as it 

 is ])road. J'n/jji pale yellow, short and stout with black and 

 some white haiis. Antcnnic were incomplete when deseribeil 

 by Bigot. Wings cleai", stigma yellow. 



Length 12 mm. 



Tabanus victoriensis, ? , sp, n. 



Tyjjc (frujalc) and two other females, all from Pandenong 

 Banges, Victoria, in Mr. French's Coll. Li i\Ir. Froggatt's 

 Coll. one female from N. S. Wales. In (icrman lOnt. 

 ^luscum two females from N. S. Wales. A stout black 

 species with white-haired spots on the abdomen and veins of 

 wings shaded \\ith brown, the palpi pale yellow, very long 

 and narrow. Antennie and legs black, the tibiic testaceous. 



