282 Miss G. Rioimlo on the 



yellow, the femora blaokisli, with long wliitc hairs and grcv 

 tomcntum ; the tore tibiiie blackish on their basal halves, 

 the tibire dusky. IVings clear, stigma yellow, veins reddish 

 yellow ; no appendix present. 



$ . Similar, the median spots of abdomen hardly visible. 

 Eves with the large facets occupying two-tliinls of the 

 surface, reaching beyond the apex of the frontal triangle. 

 Lt'ijS arc wanting. 



Tabanus ytrmanicus. ? , sp. n. 



Type (female) and a series of females from Cairns and 

 Ilcrbcrton, X. Queensland, in German Ent. Museum. 



A small species, with slender pale yellow })al[)i, red an- 

 tenna?, and ycllowis.h-brown legs. Forehead narrow. Abdo- 

 men reddish brown, with grey bands and spots. 



Length \) mm. 



Face covered with greyish tomcntum and with a few scat- 

 tered white hairs. Beard white. Palpi pale yellow, slender, 

 a little stouter at base, ending in a long fine jjoint ; pubes- 

 cence white and \ ellow. Anlemue bright reddish yellow, the 

 first two joints pale yellow with black })ubescenec, the third 

 with the basal joint large and broad, the tooth obtuse. 

 Subeallus often partially denuded, when it appears shiny and 

 testaceous in colour. Forehead parallel, nearly five times 

 as long as it is broad, covered with yellowish tomcntum and 

 with some short black hairs ; frontal callus shining reddish 

 brown, pear-shaped, not reaching eyes, with a very short 

 lineal extension. Eyes bare. Thorax blackish brown, but 

 in well-jjreserved specimens appearing grey, being covered 

 with grey tomcntum, the pubescence consisting of appressed 

 scattered yellow hairs, with a few longer black hairs; breast 

 grey, with long white hairs. Scutellum same as thorax. 

 Abdomen reddish brown (when denuded reddish aud darker 

 at apex), the grey bands on posterior borders of segments 

 almost half as wide as the segment, narrower on the second 

 one, and altogether absent on the first segment, composed 

 of grey tonientum with yellowish pubescence ; there are 

 indications of grey median triangular spots of the same 

 composition; underside reddish at base, darker at apex; 

 pubescence of dorsum on the parts not occupied by the grey 

 bands is black and rather dense, on underside white. Leys 

 yellowish, the femora at base blackish, with grey tomcntum 

 and white hairs, often prolonged on the outer side ; basal 

 half of fore tibiae and apices of others blackish brown, all 

 the tarsi dark ; pubescence on tibiaj black intermixed with 



