'riihaniihe of the Austr duin l!>jioii. 27 7 



An easily ri'co«jiiizo(l larj^o rrdtlish-browu spocirs, tlio first 

 posterior cell of wings closed, and all veins of wing .shaded 

 brown. 



I.ength :,M) mm. 



Palpi yellow with hhiek pnbcsccncc, fairly stout throngh- 

 ont their length, eniling in an obtuse point. Antriiiue 

 reddish, black at apex, with a well-defined tooth. Furelirad 

 about ei;;ht tiujes as long as it is broad, parallel ; frontal 

 callus ohliiug, ehcstnut-red, reaching eyes, with a long lineal 

 exti'usion. j-^ycs apparently b;iri'. 7 '//'y/v/a* (denuded) reddish 

 with darker stripes. Ahdijiiwn reddish brown, the dorsal 

 white spots very indistinct owing to denudation. Lef/s 

 described by .Maccjuart as black; the tibia; yellow, the 

 anterior and posterior pairs hiaek at apices. 



Tabanus inacfjuarti, Kicardo. 



Tii/ianu* liiiibatinevris^ Macquart, Dipt. Kxut., Siippl. iv. ji. (533 



Macquart named t\>o species /iinbaiiiievris, the one from 

 Tasmania takes priority (1840). 



Type (femalcj in the Paris .Museum, from the east coast 

 of New S. Wales, was examined by me in 1911, and a 

 specimen from the Brit, Mns. Coll, compared with it, from 

 Brisbane. 



In Brit. Mus. Coll. arc females from Morcton Bay, New 

 S. Wales {Vigors's Coll.) ; from Brisbane (H. Tryoil), Dec. 

 1903 ; from Bnrpengary and S. Queensland [Dr. T. L. 

 Bancroft). In Mr. Froggatt's Coll., females from Queens- 

 land and Tweed River, New S. Wales. In Mr. Wainwright's 

 Coll. a long scries from llcrbcrtou, Kuranda, and Townr.- 

 villc, N. Queensland (Dui/d), and females iu the German 

 ICntomological Museum from the same localities and by the 

 same collector. 



An easily identified species, but somewhat variable in the 

 colour of abdomen and iu the length of the long tooth of 

 third antennal joint. Abdomen black, often reddish at the 

 sides, nnirkcd with white or yellowish. haired median spots 

 on all segments except the last one, these extend as a very 

 narrow, whiti>h-haircil band to the sides where they expand 

 Komewhat ; the niulcrside with grey tomentose and white- 

 liaircd bands. I Tings clear, tinged brown, leaving the 

 discal cell clear, l-orvhead almost parallel, about six times 

 as long as it is wide; the frontal callus oblong with spindle- 

 shapccl extension, the forehead with greyish tomcntum. 

 Palpi long, fairly stout, ending in an ol)tusc point covcicd 



Ann. cC- Maj. X. Hist. ,Scr. 8. ]'ol. w. 10 



