New Australian Tabanidae. 5 



light yellowish brown with semi-erect dark hairs and decumbent 

 white pubescence. 



Legs dark brown, anterior and intermediate tibiae and tarsi 

 lighter yellowish brown. 



Wings dark grey in cells, clear for a narrow zone along veins ; 

 stigma dark brown, conspicuous; short or rudimentary appendix 

 present. 



Hab.:— New South Wales, Narrabri (J. B. Cleland, 10/18). 



Four specimens were taken around a well in Pilliga Scrub, 

 20 miles south-west of Narrabri, biting the horses. 



In the coloration of the wings the species strongly resemble E. 

 macro porum, Macq., but may be distinguished by the abdomen 

 not uniformly dark reddish. It also differs from specimens 

 from South Australia, which appear to be E. macroporum, Macq., 

 in having the second joint of the palpi noticeably shorter, not 

 longer, than the first. 



Type presented to Australian Museum, Sydney. 



Erkphopsis subcontihua, n. sp. 



Closely allied to E. contigua, Walk., but differing in palpi, 

 .antennae, abdomen and legs. 

 2 Long : — 14 mm. 

 . Face clothed with brown tomentum, more yellowish brown 

 •on sides, with black pubescence and a few straggling creamy 

 hairs, especially at sides ; beard creamy. Palpi dark reddish 

 brown and clothed with black hairs along edges, second joint 

 long, only moderately dilatate at base and ending in a long point, 

 l>asal portion strongly grooved. Antennae reddish, basal joint 

 blackish, with long black hairs above and creamy below, second 

 joint lighter than third, with long black hairs longest above. 



Forehead distinctly wider anteriorly than at vertex, clothed 

 with brown tomentum, yellowish brown at sides, pubescence 

 black, some long black hairs on vertex. Eyes hairy. 



Thorax black clothed with dark brown tomentum, more grey- 

 ish anteriorly, with feeble traces of grey submedian longitudinal 

 lines, pubescence black, with some long mingled black and yellow 

 hairs on lateral borders above wing roots and posteriorly, also 

 a prominent tuft of creamy hairs just behind wing roots. Shoul- 

 ders brown with black hairs. Sides with a prominent tuft of 

 creamy hairs above and black hairs below. Scutellum black 

 with scanty black hairs. 



