2"2 INSECTA SAUNDKRSIANA. 



there are species which unite Tabanus and Pangoiiia, and several kinds 

 which have been separated from Tabanus are but aberrant, or the last 

 links of its variations. 



European Species. 

 Tabanus solstitulis, Var. ? Mas. 



Cinereus, capite antico fiilvo, -pectore cano, abdomine nigro-piceo, lateribus 

 basi et segmenturum margmibus posticis fulvis, antennis ferrugineis 

 basi fulvis, pedibus cinereis, tarsis ferrugineis, tarsis anlicis nigris, 

 alls subcinereis basi el ad costam fidvis. 



Body gray : head tawny in front, hoary behind and beneath, where it 

 is clothed with white hairs : eyes dark bronze ; all the facets very small : 

 sucker black ; palpi yellow, clothed towards the base with long white hairs, 

 towards the tips with short black hairs : feelers ferruginous ; first and se- 

 cond joints tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; third joined, armed with 

 an angular hump, but with no horn ; compound joint pitchy, very slightly 

 curved : chest thinly clothed with tawny hairs : breast hoary, clothed with 

 pale yellow hairs : abdomen pitchy-black, obconical, much longer than the 

 chest, clothed with yellow hairs which are mostly along the sides ; a broad 

 tawny stripe on each side from the base to the middle ; hind borders of the 

 segments tawny ; under side covered with yellowish gray, clothed towards 

 the tip with a few black hairs : legs gray, clothed with pale yellow hairs ; 

 trochanters ferruginous ; shanks and feet clothed with short black hairs ; 

 shanks and foot-cushions tawny ; feet feiruginous with pitchy tips ; fore- 

 shanks towards the tips, fore-feet and claws black : wings pale gray, tawny 

 at the base and along the fore border as far as the brand, which is yel- 

 lowish brown ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base and 

 along the fore border ; angle of the tip cross-vein obtuse, and in one wing 

 of the specimen described sending forth a short stump ; scales grayish 

 tawny, with ferruginous borders ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 6 

 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



Sicily. 



