402 GERTRUDE RICARDO. DIPTEREN II. 



abdomen pale transparent yellow, the last three or four segments brownish. Legs yellow the 

 same colour as abdomen, the tibiae and tarsi brownish with black pubescence, yellow pubes- 

 cence on the coxae and femora. Wings clear, veins brown, stigma yellowish. 



Maie. Identical, but larger and stouter. Palpi club shaped, with long black pubescence, 

 the brown hairs on cheeks longer. Beard yellowish. Eyes with large facets occupying the 

 upper two thirds and reaching the apex of frontal triangle, the small facets not reaching the 

 vertex. Legs the same, but the pubescence on the femora is short, black. 



27. Tabanus fulgidus n. sp. 



Type (female) and others from Heuvel Bivak (Lorentz). 



A small species closely allied to Tabanus breviuscuhis Walker, but immediately disting- 

 uished by the shilling brown face and by the wholly brown legs. Length 7 — S mm. 



Face shilling brown, leaving only the lower part and border touching the eyes, of the 

 cheeks, covered with yellowish grey tomentum. Beard scanty, brownish. Palpi yellow covered 

 with dense black pubescence, very narrow, ending in a point. Antennae as in Walker's species. 

 Forehead parallel, the same, the frontal callus only occupies half the length of the forehead, 

 large ending in a very short point, yellowish brown in colour. Thorax and abdomen yellow, 

 the latter darker at apex. Legs uniformly brown, the same colour as face, pubescence un- 

 noticeable but black. Wings clear. 



28. Tabanus raffrayi Bigot. 



Mém. Soc. Zool. de France, V, p. 690 (1892). 



Type (a female) from New Guinea in bad préservation. 



A small dark brown species with clear wings, the palpi narrow ending in a long fine 

 point, yellowish with thick black pubescence. Beard brown. Antennae yellowish, Forehead 

 parallel, narrow, about six times as long as it is broad, the frontal callus blackish brown, 

 spindle shaped, ending a little beyond half the length of forehead, rather protubérant. Legs 

 yellowish brown. Abdomen brown with traces of médian white haired spots. Length 9 mm. 



Tabanus rubriventris Macq, Dipt. exot. I, p. 135(1838); DE MEIJERE. Nova Guinea V. 

 Résultats Exp. Sci. Nouvelle-Guinée, Diptera p. 75 (1906) is unknown to me, described as 

 testaceous, the thorax black with red pubescence. Wings with veins shaded. Length 17 mm. 



Tabanus yulensis Rôder, Stett. Ent. Zeit. LUI, p. 244 (1892) I hâve not seen, it is 

 described as a large species, 21 m. m., blackish brown, the abdomen and breast with golden 

 and yellow hairs at sides. Antennae and legs black. 



Neobolbodimyia n. g. 



Formed for one species from New Guinea. 



Allied in its generic characteristics to Bolbodimyia Bigot (Wien. Ent. Zeit., XI, p. 162 

 1892), formed for one species from Venezuela, the antennae in both gênera being placed on 

 a bulbous projecting tubercle, but the shape of the palpi, antennae and forehead are différent 

 in this genus from those of Bolbodimyia, which has very narrow palpi, the first joint of 

 antennae round and the third conical, with a wide forehead. In this genus the palpi are not 



