262 SUPPLEMENT. 



c? . Third antennal joint more slender. Thorax black throughout, the pleurae greyish-pollinose. Legs darker 

 than in the female, the front pair blacker. Length 12 millim. 



Hdb. Mexico, Northern Yucatan (Gaumer).— Antilles, Cuba 1 . 



Ten specimens. It is very probable that this species is identical with T. rufiventris, 

 Macq., though there is no trace of white spots on the abdomen. The name had been 

 previously used by Wiedemann. The colour varies not a little, from red to reddish- 

 brown, the abdomen sometimes almost yellow. The wings also vary in the intensity 

 of their colour. 



LEPIDOSELAGA (p. 57). 

 Hadrus*, Perty, Del. Anim. art. Bras. p. 182 (1834). 



1. Lepidoselaga lepidota. 



? Hamatopota crassipes, Fabr. Syst. Antl. p. 108 \ 



Tabanus lepidoius, Wiedem. Aussereur. zweifl. Ins. i. p. 193 \ 



Hadrus lepidotus, Perty, Del. Anim. art. Bras. p. 183, t. 36. fig. 9 3 ; Walk. List &c. i. p. 209 * ; 



v. p. 272 5 ; Bellardi, Saggio etc. i. p. 75 6 ; Schiner, Beise der Novara, Dipt. p. 96 7 ; Willist. • 



Kans. Univ. Quart, iii. p. 192 8 . 

 Lepiselaga lepidota, Macq. Dipt. Exot. i. 1_, p. 154, t. 18. fig. 3 9 . 

 Lepidoselaga lepidota, Loew, Dipt. Centur. viii. no. 8 10 ; O. Sack. Prodr. N. Am. Tabanidse, 



p. 475 n . 

 Lepidoselaga recta, Loew, loc. cit. 12 ; 0. Sack, antea, p. 57 13 . 



To the localities given, add : — Mexico, Santiago Iscuintla in Jalisco (Schumann). — 

 South America ; Antilles. 



One male and two females have been sent from Jalisco. Loew separated L. recta 

 from L. lepidota chiefly on account of the difference in the colour of the lower part of 

 the front, but 1 do not believe that the distinction is valid. This part in the male 

 before me is yellowish, with the middle dark, and in the females blackish. A single 

 male from Brazil, in my collection, has the lower portion of the front light yellow, and 

 it would be clearly referable to L. recta ; but in the four females sent, obtained at the 

 same time and place, the colour of this part varies from yellowish to deep black. I 

 can distinguish no difference whatever in the markings of the wings in any of the 

 specimens; neither do I find any appreciable difference in the shape of the tibiae. 

 From L. albitarsis, Macq. (= Hadrus parvus, Willist.), the shape of the front and the 

 spots in the brown of the wings will at once distinguish the present species. 



* This name is preoccupied in Goleoptera (Dejean Catalogue, 1833), though the genus was not characterized 

 till 1854. 



