'28 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



short yellow hairs; shanks and IVet clothed also with very short black 

 hairs; feet ferruginous, tawny at the base; claws black; foot-cushions 

 tawny: wings slightly tinged with gray ; wing-ribs tawny; veins black, 

 tawny towards the base and along the fore border ; a curve near the base of 

 the tip cross-vei?i, but no angle nor stump ; scales pale gray, with tawny 

 borders ; poisers lawny, with bright pale yellow knobs. Length of the 

 l)ody 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



Bolton, North America. 



Tabanus obliquus, Fern. 



Fulvus, abdominis apice ubscitriure, palpis antennis pedibusque fuivis, alts 

 cinereis, nervis transversis fusco 7iebulosis. 



Body tawny : head clothed beneath with tawny hairs : eyes dark 

 bronze, parted above by a very narrow interval ; facets verj'^ small, but 

 larger on the fore border than elsewhere : sucker dark tawny, with a pitchy 

 tip, clothed with tawny hairs, not much shorter than the chest, a character 

 among others in which this species approaches Pangonia ; palpi tawny, 

 clothed with short black hairs: feelers tawny: horn of the third joint 

 acute, extremely short ; compound joint ferruginous : abdomen nearly li- 

 near, dai'ker towards the tip, a little broader than the chest, and nearly 

 twice its length ; sides of the segments impressed with oblique rows of 

 little punctures ; legs tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; claws black : 

 wings dark gray, with a dark lawny tinge at the base and beneath the 

 fore border ; cross-veins clouded with brown ; wing-ribs and veins dark 

 tawny, the latter partly black ; brand pitchy, narrow, slightly oblique ; 

 a curve near the base of the tip cross-vein but no angle nor stump ; a small 

 almost colourless spot on each wing beneath the tip cross-vein ; scales 

 gray, with dark tawny borders ; poisers tawny, with pale yellow tips. Length 

 of the body 5| lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



Jamaica. 



