260 SUPPLEMENT. 



11. Tabanus albonotatus (p. 55). 



To the localities given, add : — Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 



13. Tabanus lineola (p. 56). 



Tabanus propinquus, Bellardi, Saggio etc. i. p. 65 *. 



To the localities given, add .-—Mexico *, Amula in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 



Four specimens. T. propinquus, Bell, (nee Macq.), differs in the colour of the 

 hind legs and in the appendiculation of the submarginal cell; the first-mentioned 

 character is of no importance, as similarly coloured specimens of T. lineola are known. 



14. Tabanus subruber. 



Tabanus ruber, Macq. Dipt. Exot., Suppl. ii. p. 42 x (nee Thuiib.). 

 Tabanus subruber, Bellardi, Saggio etc. i. p. 55 2 . 



Eab. Mexico 1 2 , Teapa in Tabasco, Amula (H. H. Smith), Atoyac in Vera Cruz 

 (Schumann). 



Five specimens. 



15. Tabanus puniiloides, s P . n. (Tab. IV. figg. 21, 21 a, $ .) 



$ . Pront yellowish-brown, with a square shining black callosity below, with a slender line reaching to a 

 darker brown spot above. Antennae red, the first joint and the annulate portion of the third joint black • 

 annulate part a little shorter than the basal portion, obtuse at the tip ; basal portion somewhat angulated 

 but not produced into a process above. Face opaque light grey. Palpi yellowish- white, with white and 

 black hairs. Mesonotum greyish-brown, opaque, with sparse white hairs and indistinct stripes. Abdomen 

 greyish or yellowish-brown, the segments each with a narrow whitish hind margin and an obsolescent 

 median stripe. Legs black ; the basal half of the front tibiae, and the middle and hind tibiae, except the 

 immediate tip, yellow ; basal joints of the posterior tarsi yellowish, the distal joints blackish Wings 

 hyaline; first posterior cell broadly open; anterior branch of the third vein with a stump Leneth 

 9-11 millim. 5 



Eab. Mexico, Xucumanatlan and Omilteme in Guerrero, 7000 to 8000 feet (H. II. 

 Smith). 



This species is allied to T. pumilus, Macq., T. spams, Whitn., and T. cribellum, 

 O. S., from all of which it will be easily distinguished. The eyes are bare, with green 

 cross-bands. 



16. Tabanus furunculus, sp. n. 



6 . Pace and front silvery-white, the latter blackish above ; hair white. Eyes bare. Antenna black; basal 

 annulus of third joint with a tuberculate process above, longer than the following annuli together. Palpi 

 light yellow, with white hair. Mesonotum brownish-black, whitish-pruinose, with dusky hair. Pleura, 

 white-pollinose, with white hair. Abdomen black, with a median continuous white stripe; sides of the 

 first four segments broadly red, leaving the black as a broad median stripe; all the segments with a 

 narrow whitish hmd-margin Wings hyaline; first and fourth posterior cells broadly open; second 

 submarginal cell not appendiculate. Legs black ; base of front tibiae, the tip of the four posterior femora 

 and their tibiae, except the distal end, yellow; hair of front femora black, of the other femora white 



