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"■On June 14, 1905, while coming into Shreveport un the Kansas 

 JCiiy Southern Railway, and while standing on the rear platform of 

 the last car, I noticed two of these insects following the train, and 

 oocasionally alighting upon the coach. The train was running about 

 twelve miles an hour and was a few miles Out of Shreveport. I suc- 

 <'eeded in capturing .but one of the two specimens." (Newell). 



Mr. Garrett made the following note at Logansport ou September 

 6: "These flies usually attack the horses' legs and are quite annoying, 

 for when they have once settled the horse can hardly get rid of them. 

 They are quite numerous at this date." 



Again: "These little insects were taken from the legs of horses 

 which were being driven to a buggy. They usually alight on the horse's 

 leg between the hock and the hoof, and are rather diflBcult for the 

 horse to drive off. which he usually tries to do by stamping or kicking." 



TABANUS FULVULUS Wiedemann. Length, three-fifths of an 

 inch. Some specimens are larger and some are smaller. Thorax with- 

 out stripes; wings with the anterior margin narrowly yellowish, but 

 otherwise hyaline; abdomen with a median dorsal band and a row of 

 ■spots on each side, whitish or yellowish. It differs rrom T. xar/aj- by 

 having the femora yellovvish instead of blackish, and the third seg- 

 ment of the antenna is not so plainly aUgulated above as in that 

 species. It is known from Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina and 

 New Jersey, and appears to be common near the seacoast. Taken from 

 a horse that was being driven to a buggy, June 17, 1905, near Crowley, 

 in the southern part of Louisiana (Martin). 



Fli;. 2(1. — Say's liorsedy (Tabdiiiis iiiolcxfiiNi. fcniale. pu- 

 lar.tcod li> one and a half diameters. 



TABANUS MOLESTUS Siiy (Say's Horsefly). The thorax is dark- 

 imjwn, plainly striped with gray; the abdomen is black, with the pos- 

 terior margin of each segment narrowly gray, expanding into a promi- 

 nent triangle at the middle of the third, fourth and fifth segments. 

 There is also a small triangle on the second segment, but it is so 

 small in comparison with those on the following segments that it is 

 bardly noticeable. Wings subhyaline, veins brown, but not margined 



