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liEPOKT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



Tithimns 



ochraceous-rufous colour and usually greater breadth of the proximal portion of the third 

 joint of the antennae, the absence of conspicuous longitudinal stripes on the dorsum of 

 the thorax, the less clearly defined median stripe or median longitudinal series of lighter 

 markings on the dorsum of the abdomen, by the presence of an appendix to the anterior 

 branch of the third vein, and by the middle and j)osterior femora being fawn-coloured 

 instead of slate-grey. Dorsum of thorax mouse-grey, clothed with minute, appressed, 

 buff-yellow mixed with minute black hairs ; dorsum of abdomen tawny-ochraceous or ' 

 ochraceous, with alternate longitudinal series of light and dark markings, last two segments 

 clove-brown ; wings tinged with sepia, anterior branch of third longitudinal vein bent 

 at an angle, with a backwardly directed stump or a^jpendix. 



Head : light grey, occiput somewhat darker than face and jowls, front yellowish-grey, 

 of moderate breadth, inner margins of eyes parallel, a more or less faintly marked light 

 mummy-brown horizontal liand between base of each antenna and margin of eye on same 

 side; frontal callus black or clove-brown, rectangular, broader than high; front clothed 

 with short, erect, blackisli hair, immediately above callus with yellowisli hair, lower surface 

 of head clothed with whitish hair ; jtalpi cream coloured, proximal joint clothed with 

 whitish hair, terminal joint moderately swollen at base, then tapering to a point, clothed 

 with minute, appressed; pale straw-yellow hairs, sometimes mixed in front with a few 

 minute black hairs; first and second joints of antennae ochraceous-buff, first joint clothed 

 below with pale-yellowish and above with minute black hairs, third joint ochraceous-rufous 



with dark brown distal extremity, 

 expanded portion of third joint 

 fairly broad, terminal annuli shorter 

 than in T. tieniiila, Pal. de Beauv. 



Tliarax : Dorsum with but a 

 faint trace of paler longitudinal 

 stripes ; swelling in presutural 

 depression on each side tinged with 

 fawn-colour, and clothed with fairly 

 long blackish hair ; pleurae and 

 pectus grey or smoke-grey, clothed 

 witli whitish hair, scittellntn agreeing with remainder of dorsum in coloration and hairy 

 covering. 



Abdomen : Dorsum marked as shown in Plate II., fig. 2, except that the median pale 

 greyish stripe, which is clothed with minute, appressed, yellowish hairs, is sometimes 

 more distinctly composed of a series of truncate triangles ; when abdomen is viewed at 

 a low angle from behind, median stripe or truncate triangle on second {i.e. second visible) 

 segment is seen to extend, like its successors, to front margin of segment ; hind margin 

 of first segment with a small patch of yellowish hairs in middle line ; admedian stripes 

 dark sepia-coloured, clothed, like dark patcli near each lateral margin of each of the first 

 five segments, with minute black hairs ; each of the first five segments with an elongate 

 and somewhat ill-defined pale mark (clothed with minute bufl'-yellow hairs) on each side 

 of middle line, between admedian stripe and dark patcli near lateral margin ; extreme 

 lateral margins of first six segments clothed with whitish hair, hind margins of fifth and 

 sixth segments clothed for most part witli yellowish hair ; sixth and seventh segments 

 exce];)t posterior and lateral margins of former, clothed with black hair ; venter ochraceous- 

 bul'f, clothed with minute, appressed, straw-yellow hairs, hind margins of second to sixth 

 segments inclusive cream-coloured or whitish, seventh segment entirely or for the most part 



T-ailsof: (a) Tabanus kingi . -Austen, 9 ^"-^ 

 (/') Tabaniis tcpitiota, P <l^ P- . 9 



