372 Records of the S.A. Museum 



Spt-ciniens of this species were identified hy comparison with Miss Ricardo's 

 ty|)e in I^ondon ; siihsequently specimens were received from Mr. Taylor under 

 tlie name T. iiiastcrsi, and proved identical with those determined as T. straiig- 

 iiiaiuii. For confirmation a specimen was resuhmitted to the British Museum 

 ;uid was returned as T. strattijmanm. 



Hub. N.T.; O., Cairns. 

 TABANUS PSEUDOARDENS Taylor. Q.. Cairns. 



TABANUS HERONI sp. nov. 



A large species resembling T. victoricnsis in general appearance, but 

 alxlnmen reddish with median black stripe and whitish spots. 



9 Face black, densely clothed with grey tomentum, separated from 

 cheeks liy deep grooves, the latter clothed with grey tomentum and with short 

 black pubescence; beard white, a few black hairs intermingled; palpi nearly as 

 long as proboscis, reddish brown, clothed with rather long intermingled pale and 

 dark hairs, second joint stout, rather strongly curved ; antennae black, first and 

 seccind joints clothed with rather long black hair, third joint rather strongly 

 angulate and toothed at base, annuli about as long as rest of joint; subcallus not 

 ])roiiiinent, densely clothed with yellowish grey tomentum. Forehead of mod- 

 erate width, subparallel. if anything slightly wider at vertex than anteriorly, 

 densely clothed with greyish tomentum, brownish above except at vertex, and 

 with short black pubescence ; callus dark reddish, elongate, not quite reaching 

 eyes anteriorly and extending to middle. Eyes apparently bare, but under the 

 microscope short thin widely separated hairs can be made out. Thorax black, 

 lateral margins yellowish brown, clothed with brown tomentum with indistinct 

 traces of grey submedian tomentose lines ; pubescence suberect, black, a few 

 greyish hairs at sides and posteriorly ; shoulders with black hairs ; pleurae red- 

 dish brown with tufts of long hair, black anteriorly, white posteriorly ; scutel- 

 luni black with brown tomentum and some straggling grey hairs. Abdomen 

 wide, flark reddish brown with a medium black stripe, clothed with black 

 decumbent pubescence, with median apical spots of white pubescence on seg- 

 ments, most evident on second, third, and fourth; lateral margins with similar 

 wliile spots at postero-lateral angles of segments. \'enter reddish with short 

 black pubescence. Legs reddish brown, tarsi darker. Wings with all veins 

 sufYused with brown, narrowly in basal half, more distinctly in apical half; first 

 ])Osterior cell widely open, no appendix present. Long.: 20 mm.; width across 

 head, 6 mm.; wing, 18 mm. 



Hah. N.S.W., Dorrigo (W. Heron). 



