24 TNSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



tawny, clothed with short yellow and black hairs : feelers bright pale fer- 

 ruginous ; first and second joints tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; 

 third joint convex hetieath, armed above with an extremely short horn whose 

 tip is black ; compound joint black, slightly curved upward : chest tinged 

 with dull pale tawny, clothed on each side with bright tawny hairs : breast 

 with a hoary tinge : abdomen ferruginous, obconical, very much longer 

 than the chest, clothed with short tawny and black hairs, adorned with a 

 tawny middle stripe which widens on the hind border of each segment, 

 and is accompanied on each side by a black stripe ; the latter widens 

 towards the tip, where it occupies the whole breadth ; under side tawny, 

 with a black tip : legs tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs ; thighs black, 

 with tawny tips ; tips of four hinder shanks, fore shanks for half the length 

 fi-om the tips, four hinder feet towards the tips and fore-feet black ; foot- 

 cushions tawny : wings hardly tinged with gray, tawny at the base and 

 along the fore borders for three-fourths of the length ; brands yellowish- 

 brown ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; a curve 

 but no angle nor stump near the base of the tip cross-vein ; scales grayish 

 tawny, with tawny borders ; poisers tawny, with pale yellow knobs. Length 

 of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



United States. 



Tabanus conterminls. Fern. 



Cinere^is, pectore cano, ahdomine fulvo vittis duabus piceis unaque cana 

 vittam piceam includente ornato,antennis ferrngineis basi fuliis apice 

 nigris, pedibus fulvis piceo variis,femoribi(s cinereis, tarsis anticis 

 nigris, alis limpidis. 



Crown adorned with a pale dull tawny covering, which is interrupted 

 by a round, convex, pitchy, shining spot in front ; under side of the head 

 white, and clothed with white hairs : eyes bronzed, parted above by a 

 rather broad interval ; the facets as usual : sucker pitchy ; lancets ferrugi- 

 nous ; palpi yellowish-white, clothed with very short black hairs : feelers 

 ferruginous ; first and second joints tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; 

 third joint slightly convex beneath, armed above with a shalloiv right angle 

 ivhose hind side is twice the length of its fore side, the latter forms a very 

 obtuse angle with the continuation of the third joint to the tip ; compound 

 joint black, curved upward, as long as the third joint : ehest gray, clothed 

 with short hoary hairs : breast hoary, clothed with white hairs : abdomen 



