COLLECTED AT S15UAPOKE AND MALACCA. y 



segment. Legs testaceous ; liiiid tibise black towards the ti])s ; hiucl tarsi 

 black, with whitish tips. Wings lurid, brown towards the tips ; veins 

 brown. Halteres testaceous. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 

 14 lines. 

 Singapore. 



Pam. TABANID^, Leach. 

 Greii. Tabanus, Linn. 



20. Tabanus univentris, Walk. Cat. Dipt. pt. 1. 151. 



The description in the above reference wiU not well apply to the two folio v\iug 

 varieties of this species. 



Var. 1. Female. Brown. Head testaceous in front and beneath. Thorax 

 with two testaceous stripes. Abdomen ferruginous, tawny beneath and 

 with ^^orsal stripe of tawny triangidar spots. Legs blackish ; femora and 

 tibiae partly testaceous. Wings dark grey. — Var. 2. Like Var. 1. Ab- 

 domen blackish above, with a dorsal stripe of testaceous spots. 



Mount Ophir. Inhabits also Borneo. 



21. Tabanus partittts, n. s., foem. Nigricans, subtiis albidus, antennis fidvis 

 apice nigris, thorace cmerascente cano-quadrivittato, abdomine piceo albido- 

 trivittato, pedibus testaceis, femoribus tibiisque apice tarsisque nigrican- 

 tibus, alls subcinereis. 



Female. Blackish ; underside and head beliind with whitish tomentum. An- 

 tennae dull tawny, black towards the tips ; angle of the 3rd jomt minute 

 and obtuse. Thorax greyish, mth four hoaiy stripes. Abdomen piceous, 

 with three wiiitish stripes. Legs testaceous ; tarsi and tips of the femora 

 and of the tibiae blackish. Wings greyish, stigma and veins black ; foi-e 

 branch of the cubital vein sunplo, nearly straight. Length of the body 

 6 lines ; of the wuigs 10 Unes. 



Singapore. 



Note. — T. ruiidus, Wied., is very closely allied to the above species, but may 

 be distinguished from it by the following characters. 



T. rtihidus. Front with the caUus quite entu-e. Antennfe blackish. Middle 



stripe of the abdomen composed of triangular spots. Wings greyish. 

 T. partitus. Smaller. Front with the callus almost interrupted. Antennae 



pale tawny, with darker tips. Middle stripe of the abdomen entire, parallel. 



Wings quite hmpid. 



Gen. CiiRYSOPS, Meigen. 



22. Cluysops dispar, Fahr. St/sf. Anil. 112. 5. 



IMount Opliir and Malacca. Inhabits also Hindostan and Java. 



Fam. ASILID.^, Leach. 

 8ubfam. Dasypoooisites, Walk. 

 Geu. DlscocEPHALA, Ilacquart. 



23. DiscocEPHALA DORSALit-, n. s., fcBui. Nigricans, thorace subgibboso, 



