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SOME UliOOD-BL'CKINO AND OTIIEK DU'TKUA FUOM Till: ANOl.O-KU Yl'TIAN SIDAN 



Talianus 



I'I'alianiu 

 dorsivitin) 



Tabanus 

 biguttalus 



Fig. 24.- Tadanus sociis. Walk. ? 

 S. Africa to the While Nile 



Thorax greyish ; abdomen rulou>, with median ^ircyish white longitudinal stripe bordered on each 

 side with a dark brown zitj-xag stripe ; leys yellowish, front tarsi and tips of front tibia: dark brown, 

 middle and hind tarsi brownish. 



7'ti/Kiiins viriiiitii.t, noni. iiuv. 

 (For rahitnnt ilnrm-ilhi, Walk., — nuiauii bis lectuni.) 

 (Fig. 25) 

 7(j/«//i«)i (/orji/(iV/</, Wiilkcr, List Dijit. Ins. in ((ill. IJrit. Mus., Part V., Supiiifiiicnt I. 



(18r)4), p. 231 („ec 

 T. tlvrs'trillii. Walk., 

 Insecta Saiinijrrsiana. 

 Diptera, part 1.(1850) 

 p. 89.) 



A 1 1 h o u g li 1 h (■ 

 species is apparently 

 less cummoii in tlie 

 Anglo-P^gyptian Sudan 

 than the foregoing, 

 specimens of 7. tv';'- 

 ffatiiK were taken on 

 tlie Wliite Nile in 

 19UU, by Major H. N. 

 Dunn, wlio also met 

 with the species in 

 Senaar, on the lilue 

 Nile, in September, 

 1902. 

 The range of '/'(i/miiii.-! n'nidlns, wliicli is abundant in the Northern Nigeria and other 

 parts of Wrst Afiica, imludcs the ivist Africa Protectorate and IJritish Central Africa. 



Tubanus liujiUlnInf, 



Wied. 

 (Figs. 26, 27, $ %) 

 3\i(itiiiiis liiiintliiliis^ 

 Wiedemann, Ausser- 

 europiiische zweifliige- 

 lige Insekten, II. 

 (1830), p. 623. 



Ttilianux ri'rlii'riis^ 

 Walker, List Dipt. Ins. 

 in coll. Brit. Mus., I. 

 (1848), p. 149. 



7'rt /( It II II .1 iiiirl is, 

 Walker, Insecta Saun- 

 dersiana. Diptera, I. 

 (185U), 1.. 42. 



'/'iiliiiiiii.i /ii/iiiiii'- 

 li/rr, Walker, Appeiidi.x to the Zoologist for 1850, p. XCV. 



(N.U. — This synonymy is new.) 

 This is a common species of conspicuous appeurunce and large size, which it is hoped 



HjE-mtii 



Fig. 'JA.— Tabanis vikgati's, Austen. ? 

 f iambia and Nigeri.i to Sen.lar .ind the K. Africa Protectorate 



Thor.ix Krcyish with darker stripc» ; .ilidomcn retidish, with light grey median longitudiiul stripe ; 

 legs yellowish, with brown t.-irsi. 



