7Ü TABANUS RIPUNCTATUS. 



nitidis signata; ahdomine utrinque fulvescente , dorso maculis 

 fuscis in seriebus dispositis ; palpis albescentibus ; antennis 

 pedibusque rujis; pedorum anticorum tibiis (praeter basin) 

 tarsisque nigris; posteriorum tibiarum apice tarsisque fuscis ; 

 alis hyalinis. — 9- Long. 11,5 mm. 



This species differs from all others known to me , by 

 its very broad front, with two shining black dots. 



Head light-grey ; face and palpi whitish , the latter with 

 some short black hairs ; front occupying about one fifth 

 of the breadth of the head , with two shining black dots 

 above each other, which are more or less cordiform and 

 longitudinally grooved. Eyes bare , reddish-bronze and 

 without stripes after having been moistened. Antennae 

 reddish-yellow; the two basal joints clearer; third joint 

 on the upper part enlarged into a tooth at the base and 

 further on slightly incised, upper surface of the thorax 

 cinereous, with hardly any indication of darker stripes; 

 pleurae whitish. Abdomen dark cinereous , with pale-yellow 

 segmentations, the four or five first segments reddish-yellow 

 laterally ; undersurface reddish-grey. — Legs reddish-yellow ; 

 the coxae whitish ; front legs with the tip of the femora 

 at the inner side dark brown , the tibiae , except their 

 base, for more than two thirds fuscous, the tarsi black; 

 on the posterior legs the tip of the tibiae and the four 

 last joints of the tarsi dark brown ; all the femora with 

 a short , decumbent , white pile ; the hind tibiae relatively 

 long and fringed on the outside with short blackish hairs. 

 Halteres whitish. Wings hyaline, on the anterior margin 

 with a yellow tinge; the veins along the costa reddish- 

 yellow, the other ones pale brovvn ; the upperbranch of 

 the furcated cell angular at its base. 



Two female specimens from St. George d'Elmina, W. 

 Africa (Nagtglas) in the Leyden Museum ; two others from 

 South Africa (de Selys Fanson) in that of Brussels. 



One of the specimens in the Leyden Museum has a small 

 recurrent vein at the upperbranch of the furcated cell. 



Notes from the Leyden ASuseum, Vol. VII. 



