of the Family Tabatiidaj. 119 



point. TIk' lt';;s are Mack, the tibia forrui^inou''. Wings 

 witli an a|)|»fn(lix on fork of tliird longitudinal v^-in. 

 Hall. Austialia. 



Diaiomtneurn le)da,\\'\\\W^ MS., Walker, Dipt. Sauml. |(t. i. 

 p. 10 (18'>0) ; Walk. Li.st Dipt. pt. i. p. 141 (l«i8j. 



Tabaniu Unla, Wliito, MS., IJull.r, Cist. Ent. i. p. Soo (I87d). 



Sec reinark.s on Krej/hrosis adrel, White, whicli apply to 

 this species al.so. 



Jlab. New Zealand. 



Diatomineura minima, i^p. n. (PI. I. fiijs. ■\: S -, •'^ ? •) 



One male and two females. 



This may pos.sibly be the same as D. (jafjanlina, Bigot 

 (Mem. See. Zool. Fr. v. p. 620, 181)2), but the description is 

 8o incomplete that it is impossible to determine any tly from 

 it (Bigot himself doubts whether his species belongs to iJia- 

 tomineura). For the present, therefore, I prefer to regard 

 the British Museum specimens as belonging to a distinct 

 species. 



Black (male and female). Face and forehead grey ; frontal 

 stripe on upper half of forehead black in female ; black hairs 

 on the face. 



Antenna3 with the first two joints grey ; the third is reddish 

 at the base, black at the tip ; the palpi are reddish ; in the 

 female with black hairs, curved, broad at base, tapering to 

 a point. Beard scanty and whitish. Thorax with black 

 hairs at sides, and grey hairs on breast. Abdomen with fine 

 white hairs on lateral margins of segments, in the female 

 greyish ; underside of abdom<m with grey tomentum. Legs 

 brown, whitish tomentum on the posterior femora of female. 

 Wings dark brown, paler on the posterior borders. 



Length 8 millim. 



Hah. Sydney or Moreton Bay, Queensland. 



Diatomineura aurithuij 9 , Donovan, Gen. Illust. Ent. pt. i. 

 (1805). 



Tabanus auri/luus, Don. /. c. 



Farujmia solida, $, Walker, List Dijit. pt. i. p. 141 (1848). 



Walker's type seems the same as auriflua^ of which Dono- 

 van gives a plate. Walker's description should be referred 

 to for the species, and may be amended thus as regards the 

 abdomen. Palpi broad at base, ending in a point. Ab- 

 domen with golden or white tufts of hair on the middle of 



