40 TABANIDif:. 



Black. Head hoary, clothed in front with pale yellow hairs. Eyes 

 seneous-green, with 3 purple bands. Third joint of the antennce tawny. 

 Thorax hardly striped. Wings grey, tinged with brown at the base 

 and thence along two-thirds of the fore border. Halteres brown, 

 tawny at the tips and towards the base. Hind borders of the abdo- 

 minal segments with a triangidar hoary spot in the middle, and with a 

 short hoary band on each side. Tihice dark tawny, vfith black tips. 



Eare. ^E.) 



11. austriacus, Fb. s. a. 96. 17 (1805). — micans, Mg. ; Mq. 

 Niger, capite cano, thorace vix vittato, alls cinereis basi et ad costam 

 et ad venas disci nonniUlas fuscis ; Mas. abdomine maculis canis uni vit- 

 tato ; Foem. abdomine maculis canis trivittato, lateribus anterioribus 

 cano-maculatis. Long. 6-7 ; alar. 14-16 lin. 



Black. Head hoaiy, clothed in front with pale yellow hairs. Eyes 

 Eeneous-green, adorned with 3 pm'ple bands. Thorax hardly striped. 

 Wings grey, brown at the base and thence along three-fourths of the 

 fore border and along some of the veins in the disc. Halteres black. 

 Male. Abdomen with one row of hoary spots. Pore tarsi fringed with 

 long hairs. Fern. Abdomen with 3 rows of hoary spots, and with a larger 

 hoarv spot on each side near the base. 



Rare. (E.) 



12. cordiger, Wdn. ; Mg. zw. ii. 47. 23 (1820). Nigro-fuscus, 

 capite flavo, antennis ferrugineis apice nigris, thorace cinereo-tri\dttato 

 ad alasfulvo, alls subciuereis basi et ad costam fulvis, abdomine macidis 

 trigonis cinereis trivittato, segmentis prinio ad tertium fidvo-bivittatls, 

 pedibus nigris, tibiis anticis basi fulvis, tibiis posterioribus et tarsis 

 fulvis. Long. 6 ; alar. 12 liu. 



Dark brown, narrow. Head yellow, clothed in front with yellow 

 hairs. Eyes seneous-green, with 3 purple bands. Antennae ferru- 

 ginous, black towards the tips. Thorax vfiiXx 3 grey stripes, tatvny 

 above the base of each wing. Wings pale grey, tawny at the base and 

 thence along two-thirds of the fore border. Halteres brown, yellow at 

 the tips and towards the base. Abdomen with a row of cinereous 

 triangular spots along the disc and with a taiony stripe along each 

 side of the first, second, and third segments. Legs black ; fore tibiae 

 towards the base, posterior tibife and tarsi, tawny. 



Rare. In the collection of the Entomological Club. (E.) 



13. rusticus, L. s. n. ii. 1000. 11 (1763) j Eb. ; Eln. ; Mg. ; 

 Mq. ; Ztt. Cinereus, capite cano, antennis fulvis basiflavis apice ferru- 

 gineis, alls sublimpidis, pedibus nigris, tibiis fulvis apice nigris ; 3Ias. 

 abdomine basi fulvo-bivittato ; Faem. abdomine maculis cinereis trivit- 

 tato. Long. 6 ; alar. 12 lin. 



Grey. Head hoary, clothed in front with pale yellow hairs. Eyes 

 yellowish-green. Antennce tawny, yellow at the base, ferruginous 

 towards tfie tips. Thorax not striped. Wings almost colourless. 



