72 TABANUS MINIMUS. 



bare and of a bronze color , with small facets ; even after 

 having been moistened they show no trace of crossbands. 

 In these Javanese specimens the yellow color of the legs 

 is so pale, that it may be called whitish. 



26. Tahanus hasalis , Macq. 

 Macq. Dipt. ex. I. 1. 126. 10. 



Two female specimens from Sumatra (v. Lansberge). 



]n the most essential points they agree with the des- 

 cription. There are however some disagreements to be 

 mentioned. 1°. According to the description the third and 

 following segments of the abdomen ought to be shining 

 black; in my specimens the color of these segments is 

 fuscous and rather dull ; moreover the hind margin of the 

 segments shows remains of a white hairfringe ; the under- 

 surface is wholly fuscous and there the white fringe is 

 complete , even on the second segment. — 2°. According 

 to Macquart the legs are blackish , the tibiae yellow with 

 black tips; this may be the thruth in regard to the front 

 legs , in the posterior ones however I find the tibiae brown 

 and not darker at the end. 



This species may be easily recognized by the light 

 brownish-yellow color of the two first abdominal segments , 

 on account of which it resembles more or less the N. Ame- 

 rican T. cinctus Fabr. 



The eyes are bare , reddish-bronze , without crossbands 

 even after having been moistened, and with very small 

 facets all over. 



27. Tahanus multipunctatus , n. sp. ') 

 (Plate 5, fig. 2). 

 GrUeus; thorace striis quatuor fuscis; ahdomine maculis 



1) Besides this new species of Tabamis and the following ones, described 

 here, there are still several others in the Leyden Museum, which I must 

 leave undetermined, because I cannot recognize them among the existing des 



Notes from the I-ieyden JMuseum, Vol. VII, 



