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Legs yellow, anterior half of front tibia;, front tarsi, tips of middle and 

 posterior tarsi, extreme tip of posterior femora and distal third of pos- 

 terior tibia;, black. Wings : costal cell, about one-fourth of first basal, 

 extreme base of second, cross-band, apical spot and a cloud on fifth vein, 

 brown. The cross-band is narrowed posteriorly, reaching the margin in 

 the fourth cell and barely crossing the vein into the fifth. The apical 

 spot is narrow, extending along the costa and filling the apical third of the 

 second submarginal cell. 



Six $ . July. Milford, N. H. 



Taba?ms superjumcntarius. 



°. . Length 16-19 m. m. Palpi long, slender, gray, thickly beset 

 outwardly with short black hairs. Face and cheeks gray, with white pollen 

 and hairs. Antenna; black, base of joints reddened, upper angle of third 

 joint prominent. Front without ocellar tubercle, coarctate anteriorly, gray 

 with a central brown spot and brown vertex with black hairs. Callus 

 chestnut brown, higher than wide, fusiform above. Eyes naked, uni- 

 colorous. Thorax chocolate brown, with white stripes, the middle one 

 narrow, geminate, abbreviate. Thorax and scutellum densely clothed 

 with white hairs. Humeri and pleurae pale carneous with black pile. 

 Abdomen tapering, black, with dense appressed glossy hairs. Segments 

 3 to 6 faintly margined posteriorly with white, which expands centrally 

 into small triangles on the anterior segments by a few white hairs. Venter 

 black, whitish pollinose laterally, the segments margined with white and 

 with white ciliae. Legs black, with black hairs, base of tibiae testaceous 

 interiorly. Wings tinged with fuliginous. Base, costal cell and stigma 

 pale yellow. A faint cloud on divarication of third vein. First posterior 

 cell slightly coarctate. 



Two £ . July 4. Milford, N. H. 



Tabanus Dodgei. 



%. Length 12-14 m. m - Face and cheeks densely covered with 

 light gray pollen and long white hairs. Palpi whitish with white and a 

 few black hairs. Antennae pale yellow, third joint black, upper angle 

 rounded. Front parallel, gray, no ocellar tubercle, callus dark chestnut 

 brown, rectangular, a little wider than high, and frequently emarginate 

 above. A disconnected ovate lanceolate spot above. Eyes pubescent, 

 purple, with two parallel green stripes, the upper wider, and wider than 



