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30. Tabanus fulvimedius, Walker (PI. X. figs. [4 & 15). 



(Tahvan-Kisuji-Alm). 



List Dipt. Brit. Mus., I, p. 152, 1848. 



Kertesz, Cat. Dipt., Ill, p. 243, 1908. 



Ricardo, Rec. End. Mus., IV, p. 197, mil ; Ann. Hist. -Nat. 



Mus. Nat. Hung-., XI, p. 169, 1912 ; Suppl. Entom., III. 



p. 65, 1914. 



Atylotus melanqpygatus, Bigot, Men. Soc. Zool. France, V. p. 651-3 1892. 



Tabanus melanopygatus, V. d. Wulp, Cat. Dipt. South Asia, p. 63. [896. 



Kertesz, Cat. Dipt., Ill, p. 260, 1908. 



Ricardo, Rec. End. Mus., IV, p. 197, 191 1. 

 Atylotus pa godinus, Bigot, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, V, p. 654. 1892. 

 Tabanus pagodinus, V. d. VVulp. Cat. Dipt. South Asia, p. 63. [896. 



Kertesz, Cat. Dipt., Ill, p. 267, 1908. 



Ricardo, Rec. Ind. Mus., IV, p. 197, 191 1. 



A medium-sized reddish brown species, with a large oblong 

 shining black callus prolonged as a thick linear extension on the rather 

 broad frontal stripe, with the greyish yellow-brown thorax, and with a 

 greyish yellow median stripe on the abdomen. 



Female. Head apparently broader than the thorax, very short. 

 Frontal stripe yellowish grey to yellowish brown, almost always 

 broadest as just below the vertex and then gradually narrowed down- 

 wards, and about five and a half or six times as long as its narrowest 

 part or about three and a half or four times as long as its broadest 

 part, furnished with very short mostly sloping black pubescence on the 

 upper two-third but on the lower thirds with pale yellowish white one 

 which sometimes very inconspicuously extends up to just before the 

 vertex along the sides ; lower frontal callus shining black, rather large 

 and about twice or one and a half times as long as it is broad, usually 



