26 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



Tabanus rufofrator, Fern. 



Cinereo-rufm, abdominis maculis trigonis et segmentorum marginibitJi 

 posticis fidvis, palpis anlennisque fidvis, his apice niyris,pedibu~s fer- 

 rugineis, larsis piceis, alls sublirnpidis, nervis transversis fusco sub- 

 nebulosis. 



Body dull red : head tinged with gray, clothed beneath with white 

 liairs ; two shining convex marks on the crown, the first spindle-shaped, 

 the second round : eyes dark bronze, parted above by a rather broad inter- 

 val, composed of very small facets, which, however, are a little larger on 

 the inner fore border than elsewhere : sucker black, rather long and stout ; 

 palpi tawny, long, clothed with very short black hairs : feelers dark tawny ; 

 first and second joints clothed with short black hairs, their tips lengthened 

 above into short horns, the first stout, the second slender ; third joint black 

 towards the tip, convex beneath, forming above a slight angle which is beset 

 with short black hairs ; compound joint black, slightly curved upward : 

 breast tinged with gray, partly clothed with whitish hairs : abdomen ob- 

 conical, much longer than the chest, thinly clothed with whitish hairs on 

 each side, and along the pale tawny hind border of each segment ; a tawny 

 stripe above, forming on each segment a triangle whose base rests on the 

 hind border; under side pale red: legs ferruginous, clothed with short 

 whitish hairs ; shanks towards the tips and feet clothed with short black 

 hairs ; feet pitchy, dark ferruginous beneath ; claws and fore-feet black ; 

 foot-cushions tawny : wings almost colourless ; cross-veins very slightly 

 clouded with brown : wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at 

 the base and along the fore border ; a ctirve near the base of the tip cross- 

 vein, no angle nor stump ; scales .grayish tawny, with dark tawny borders ; 

 poisers ferruginous. Length of the body 8^ lines ; of the wings 17 lines. 



Georgia. 



Tabanus incisus, Fem. 



Nigro-cinereus, capite fulvescenti, thorace vittis quatuor canis ornato, la- 

 teribus ferrugineis, pectore cano, abdominis lateribus ventreque fulvis, 

 antennis fulvis apice nigris, pedibus nigris, tibiis basi fulvis, alis sub- 

 cinereis. 



Body black : head adorned with a pale tawny covering ; two pitchy, 

 shining, convex marks on the crown, one spindle-shaped, the other in 

 front, nearly round: eyes pitchy, parted above by a rather broad interval : 



