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Forehead almost parallel and about (ivc times as long as 

 it is broad ; frontal eallus [)ear-slia))ed. V(tli)i long and 

 slender, only sligbtly stouter at the base, yellowisli. An- 

 teniue reddish. Abdomen in the .si)ecimen in IJrit. Mus. Coll. 

 reddish Inown with grey segmentations and median spots. 

 U'iiK/s willi a long appendix. 



Type reeorded froui Darwin, Northern Territory, the same 

 locality as that of Tubanus anellosus, Summers (now a 

 synonym of Tubanus brevior, Wlk.), which, Mr. Austcu 

 remarks, it closely resembles. 



Tabanus townsvlUi, ^ ^ , sp, n. 



Type (female) and two other females from Townsville, 

 X. Queensland [F. P. Dodd, per Janson). 



Type i^niale) from same locality. 



A tlusky, roildish-brow n, medium-sized s[)eeies, with very 

 small, white-haired, median spots on abdomen. Forehead 

 almost parallel. Auteunie pale yellow at base, the third 

 joint blackish. Legs rctklish yellow and black. 



Length, cJ ? , 15 mm. 



? . Fuce covered with pale ashy-coloured tomcntum and 

 with fairly long while hairs. Beard white. Pa/pi pale 

 yellow, with some short black hairs, very stout at base, 

 ending in a short obtuse point ; some white hairs are visible 

 on uiulerside at base. Antenme with the first two joints 

 reddish yellow, the first one largely covered on its outer side 

 with ashy-grey tomcntum, and with a few black hairs on its 

 upper border; the second is very small, the third almost 

 wholly blackish, with a small angle as tooth. Forehead 

 almost parallel, about six. times as long as it is broad, much 

 darker than the face, covered with tawny tomcntum and 

 with black hairs ; a streak of white hairs is visible on each 

 side; frontal callus chestnut-brown, oblong or pear-shaped, 

 small, not reaching the eyes, with a lineal extension. Thorax 

 blackish brown, with three fairly well-marked grey toincn- 

 tose stripes ; dorsum with some grey tomcntum and with 

 tawny and black pubescence ; tufts of white hairs at base 

 of wings. Scutel/uin same colour, with a few tawny hairs 

 and with long black hairs. Abdomen ochraceous tawny, 

 a|)pearing darker by reason of the thick, short, black pubes- 

 cence on the whole dorsum ; the median spots are situated 

 on second to the tilth segments, and consist of grey tomcntum 

 covered with a few paie yellow or white hairs ; in two speci- 

 mens the spots are very small, in the third larger and trian- 

 gular ; underside paler, with grey tomcntum. Letjs reddish 



