GERTRUDE RICARDO. DIPTEREN II. 395 



It appears to be brownish in colour, the abdomen with paler segmentations. Antennàe 

 and legs brownish or yellowish. Wings clear, with an appendix. Palpi rather stout; ending 

 in an obtuse point, pale yellow with black pubescence. Beard pale brownish. Foreliead 

 narrow, a third narrower anteriorly, about eight times as long as it is broad. Frontal callus 

 pale yellow, pear shaped with short linear extension, not touching the eyes. Length 14 m. m. 



13. Tabajius woollastoni n. sp. 



Type (female) and 2 others in Brit. Mus. Coll. from Mimika River, New Guinea (A. F. R. 

 Woollaston), British Ornithological Union Expédition, and a séries of females in Dr. Lorentz's 

 - Coll. from Bivak Island, Regen Island and Alkmaar. 



A large black broad bodied species, the thorax covered with yellowish tomentum. 

 Antennàe and legs black. Wings brownish. Length 19 — 20 mm. 



Face covered with light yellowish tomentum, some black hairs on cheeks. Palpi large, 

 fairly stout at base, ending in a point, reddish with some brown tomentum and with thick 

 black pubescence, longer black hairs at base on lower border. Beard golden yellow. Antennàe 

 blackish, the first two joints reddish with thick black pubescence, third joint with a very 

 distinct tooth. Foreliead a little duller in colour than the face, with some black pubescence, 

 narrow, about ten times as long as it is broad anteriorly, where it is slightly narrower than 

 at vertex. Frontal callus very narrow with a long rather raised lineal extension, reddish 

 brown in colour. Thorax blackish, covered with yellowish tomentum which often dégénérâtes 

 into a greyish yellow colour, as in the type and other spécimens, pubescence black, short 

 but rather thick; sides and breast dullish yellow with thick black pubescence, in some 

 spécimens the shoulders and upper border of sides hâve reddish yellow pubescence; at base 

 of wings a small tuft of reddish yellow hairs and a larger one behind reaching to the scutellum, 

 in one or two of the spécimens the tufts consist of yellowish white hairs. Scutellum same as 

 thorax. Abdomen a very dark reddish brown appearing black by reason of the very thick short 

 black pubescence which covers the whole dorsum ; underside the same. Legs black, with black 

 pubescence which becomes fringe like on the middle and posterior tibiae, the fore tibiae 

 curved. Wings brownish, paler at apex and on posterior border, the usual pale streak between 

 the first and second longitudinal veins, at extrême base and on foreborder the colouring 

 becomes more reddish brown, veins brown. 



14. Tabanus pollinosus n. sp. 



Type (female) and two others from Simbang near Finsch Harbour in German New Guinea. in 

 Dr. Kertész's Coll. sent me for identification. 



A large black species, the abdomen with a greyish plum like bloom, thorax brownish. 

 Antennàe red, legs black. Wings brown. Length 20 m. m. (type) other 16 and 19 m. m. 

 Distinguished from Tabanus caerulescens Macq. from Java by the unicoloured thorax and 

 wholly black legs. 



Face covered with reddish brown tomentum and with some black hairs. Palpi large, fairly 

 stout at base ending in an obtuse point, dull reddish yellow with thick black pubescence. 



