2S8 Miss G. Ricanlo on the 



]Mr. Frog^att records Tahaniis sanr/iiinarius woder T.7ilf/rO' 

 pictuji in " March Flics ^' (Science iJull. New St)utli Wales, 

 No. 3, p. 8. 1011), as found near Richmond River, New 

 South Wales. 



Tabanus nigritarsis, Taylor, Report Austr. Inst. Tropical 

 Medicine, 1911, p.' 18 (1913). 



This reddish-yellow species from Queensland, measuring 

 15-17 mm., may be distinguished from Tahanns avidus, Bigot 

 [7'ahatiifs fiiscipes, Taylor, Tabanus tayJor'i, Austen], by the 

 palpi, which are swollen and stout at the base, ending in a 

 ratlier long obtuse point; the frontal callus is narrower and 

 the femora are blackish, not cinnamon-coloured. 



Tabanus spatiosus, $ , sp. n. 



Tvpc (female) and a long series from Stannary Hills, 

 N. Queensland, circa 3000 ft. {Dr. T. L. Bancroft), 1901, in 

 Brit. Mus. Coll. 



A small yellowish-brown species, smaller than Tabanus 

 Tiyperythreus, Bigot, from which it is distinguished by the 

 wider forehead ; this character also serves to distinguish it 

 from Tabanus tuf/7'imanus, AVlk. From Tabamis n'igritarsis, 

 Taylor, it may be distinguished by the colour of the legs. 



Antenna reddish yellow. Palpi pale yellow. Leys yel- 

 lowish. ]Vings clear, with an appendix present. 



Length IH mm. 



Face chamois-coloured, covered with grey tomentum on 

 the cheeks ; the sparse pubescence consists of short white or 

 yellow hairs. Beard white. Palpi the same colour or a 

 shade brighter, -with short white and black hairs, slender, 

 nearly the same M'idih throughout, ending in a short point. 

 Antennce Mars-yellow, the first two joints paler, the third 

 with its basal joint broad, and a small tooth. Forehead 

 same colour as face, parallel, broad, about four times as long 

 as it is broad anteriorly ; the frontal callus dark brown, 

 pear-shaped, not reaching the eyes, and with hardly any 

 lineal extension. Thorax olive-coloured, with recumbent 

 white pubescence and a few longer black hairs. Scutellum 

 identical. Abdomen ochraceous tawny, the three last seg- 

 ments darker, with obscure brown markings, all segments 

 covered with fairly numerous short whitish hairs, thickest 

 on segmentations, and in the middle in the form of a faint 

 stripe; underside identical. Legs ochraceous tawny, the 

 femora sometimes with a dark streak ; apical joints of tarsi 



