

COLLECTED AT SINGAPORE AND MALACCA. 9 



segment. Legs testaceous ; hind tibiae black towards the tips ; hind tarsi 

 black, with whitish tips. Wings lurid, brown towards the tips ; veins 

 brown. Halteres testaceous. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 

 14 lines. 

 Singapore. 



Earn. TABANID^E, Leach. 

 Gen. Tabanus, Linn. 



20. Tabanus univentris, Walk. Cat. Dipt, pt. 1. 151. 



The description in the above reference will not well apply to the two folio whig 

 varieties of this species. 



Var. 1. Female. Brown. Head testaceous in front and beneath. Thorax 

 with two testaceous stripes. Abdomen ferruginous, tawny beneath and 

 with a dorsal stripe of tawny triangular spots. Legs blackish ; femora and 

 tibiae partly testaceous. Wings dark grey. — Var. 2. Like Yar. 1. Ab- 

 domen blackish above, with a dorsal stripe of testaceous spots. 

 Mount Ophir. Inhabits also Borneo. 



21. Tabantts paktittjs, n. s., foem. Nigricans, subtus albidus, antennis fulvis 

 apice nigris, thorace cinerascente cano-quadrivittato, abdomine piceo albido- 

 trivittato, pedibus testaceis, femoribus tibiisque apice tarsisque nigrican- 

 tibus, alis subcinereis. 



Female. Blackish ; underside and head behind with whitish tomentum. An- 

 tennae dull tawny, black towards the tips ; angle of the 3rd joint minute 

 and obtuse. Thorax greyish, with four hoary stripes. Abdomen piceous, 

 with three whitish 3tripes. Legs testaceous ; tarsi and tips of the femora 

 and of the tibiae blackish. Wings greyish, stigma and veins black ; fore 

 branch of the cubital vein simple, nearly straight. Length of the body 

 6 lines j of the wings 10 lines. 



Singapore. 



Note. — T. rubidus, Wied., is very closely allied to the above species, but may 

 be distinguished from it by the following characters. 



T. rubidus. Front with the callus quite entire. Antennae blackish. Middle 



stripe of the abdomen composed of triangular spots. Wings greyish. 

 T. partitus. Smaller. Front with the callus almost interrupted. Antennae 



pale tawny, with darker tips. Middle stripe of the abdomen entire, parallel. 



Wings quite limpid. 



Gen. Chrysops, Meigen. 



22. Chrysops dispar, Fabr. Syst. Awtl. 112. 5. 



Mount Ophir and Malacca. Inhabits also Hindostan and Java. 



Fam. ASILID.E, £each. 

 Subfam. Dasypogonites, Walk. 

 Gen. Discocephala, Macquart. 



23. Discocephala doksalis, n. s., foem. Nigricans, thorace subgibboso, 



