Loew, Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, VIII, p. 585, 1858. 



Bonsd., Finl. Tvaving. Ins., I, p. 108, 1861. 



Brauer, Denkscer. Akad. Wien XLII, p. 1 39, pi. I, fig. 3, 1880, 



Speiser, Zeitschr. Wiss. Insektenbiol., 1, p. 407, 19O4 ; Schrift. 

 Physik.-Oekon. Ges. Koenigsberg, XLVI, p. 163, 1905. 



Villeneuve, Ann. Soc. Entom. France, LXXIV, p. 309, 1905. 



Kertesz, Cat. Dipt., Ill, p. 284, 1908. 

 Therioplectes trandinus Kertesz, Zoolog. Ergebn. Asiat, Forshungsr. 



Grafen E. Zichy, II, p. 191, fig. 5, 19DI. 



Verrall, Brit. Fl., V, p. 760, 1909. 

 Tabanus tarandicus, Vill., Ent. Linn., Ill, p. 552, 1789. 

 Tabanus karafutonis, Matsumura, Journ. Coll. Agr. Tohoku Imp. 



Univ., Sapporo, Japan, IV, 1, p. 64, pi. II, fig. 14, 1911. 



A large robust handsome species, distinguished from any other 

 Japanese species of the genus Tabanus (sens, lat.) by the hindmargins 

 of the abdominal segments with a distinct golden yellow pubescence. 



Female. Head very short but slightly broader than the thorax, 

 somewhat arched. Frontal stripe broad, slightly narrowed rather rapidly 

 about the lower one-third though the remaining part is parallel-sided, 

 about three and a half times as long as its broad, with two frontal calli, 

 in which the lower one is larger, roundish, moderately convex, occupying 

 more than the middle three-fifths of the space between the eye-angles, reddish 

 brown but darker above, shining though minutely striolate, while the 

 upper one is rather inconspicuous, long, narrow, and shining black ; 

 these two calli sometimes connected with a ocelligerous tubercle reddish 

 brown, small though distinct and sharply elevated, situated just front 

 the occiput ; frontal stripe black but densely obscured by a yellow or 

 pale yellowish grey dust (leaving all the callosities) and bearing some- 

 what long dense sloping brownish yellow or yellow pubescence with a 

 few similar blackish hairs intermixed, leaving a narrow median line 

 from the ocelligerous tubercle to the lower callus so that the callosities 

 all seen to be connected with a narrow blackish line ; frontal 



