New Australian Tabanidae. 3 



ihorax is brown with suberect black hairs and with scattered 

 depressed reddish pubescence ; in one female there is a very 

 fine greyish line present on each side of median area (the other 

 specimen has the thorax discoloured) ; the breast has reddish, 

 not black, hairs; the wings are faintly tinged grey. In other re- 

 spects the specimens agree with Miss Ricardo's description. 



Hab. : — Victoria, Warburton (J. E. Dixon, Dec, 1918; Spry, 

 15/12/18). 



Pelecorrhynchus flavipennis, n.sp. (Plate I.) 



A large black species with yellow submedian thoracic vittae, 

 yellow wings spotted with brown, and bicolorous legs. 



£ Long: — 17 mm. 



Black. Face clothed with dark grey tomentum and long black 

 hairs, with a few whitish hairs below ; beard white behind, black 

 in front ; palpi clothed with long black hairs. Antennae bright 

 reddish yellow, the basal two joints black. Eyes barely touching 

 in middle. Posterior surface of head clothed with dense white 

 pubescence, the upper margin with black. 



Thorax black with a conspicuous yellow line on each side of 

 median area, and a very short, less conspicuous line above wing 

 roots ; pubescence black, with hoary white tufts of hairs behind 

 wing roots, shoulders grey with black hairs, becoming hoary 

 below ; sides with dense hair tufts, black in front, hoary pos- 

 teriorly beneath wing roots. Scutellum black in centre, grey 

 at sides, clothed with black pubescence and fringed with hoary 

 white hairs at each side and with black in middle. 



Abdomen shining black, with depressed black pubescence and 

 long black hairs along lateral margins of segments. Venter 

 shining black, lateral margins with hoary white hair tufts. 



Legs with femora black, tibiae and tarsi bright yellow. Wings 

 bright yellow with dark brown markings (1) along posterior 

 border, extending to apex; (2) across base of discal cell, not 

 reaching anterior margin but connected with (1); (3) at apex 

 of discal cell connected with (1) ; (4) a single isolated spot above 

 apex of discal cell on second longitudinal vein; (5) at apex, 

 where there are three semi-confluent spots, connected with dark 

 -markings of posterior border. 



2 Long: — 13 mm. 



Face strongly protuberant, clothed with brown tomen- 

 tum, with grey tomentum below, and a patch of yel- 

 lowish tomentum on each side of middle above, with 



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