DIPTERA, 20 



TaBANUS TINCTUS, FcDl. 



Cinercus, thorace vittis diiabus canis maculisque dual us fulvis ornalo, 

 pectore cano, abdomine fulfo,fasciis piccis ornato maculisqne trrgonis 

 canis trivittato, ventre cinereo vitta picen ornato, antennis ni(/ris bast 

 fuliis, pedibus ni(/ns, libiis fulvis, alis cinereis basi et ad costam sub- 

 fulris. 



Body gray : covering of the head dull tawny above, white beneath 

 where it is clothed with white hairs ; a slender, shining, pitchy stripe on 

 the crown : eyes dark bronze, parted above by a moderately broad interval ; 

 all the facets very small : sucker black ; lancets pale ferruginous ; palpi 

 pale yellow : feelers black ; first and second joints dark tawny, clothed with 

 short black hairs, their tips angular; third joint ferruginous at the base, 

 convex beneath, rarxeo? above into a slightly obtuse angle; compound joint 

 very slightly curved upivard : chest adorned with two hoaiy stripes ; a 

 tawny spot on each side near the base of the wing, between which and the 

 fore border of the chest there are a few black hairs : breast hoary, partly 

 clothed with whitish hairs : abdomen dull tawny, slightly obconical, 

 clothed with short tawny hairs, a little broader and veiy much longer than 

 the chest ; a broad pitchy band on the fore border of each segment from 

 the third to the tip, which is black ; segments from the third to the sixth 

 adorned with three rows of hoary triangular spots which rest on the hind 

 borders ; under side gray with a broad pitchy stripe ; hind liorders of the 

 segments pale tawny : legs black ; hips and thighs tinged with gray, 

 clothed with short whitish hairs ; shanks tawny with black tips, fringed 

 with short black hairs ; foot-cushions pale tawny : wings gray, with a tawny 

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

 brown ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base and 

 along the fore border; curve of the tip cross-vein very slight ; scales gray, 

 with tawny Itorders ; poisers pitchy, with tawny knobs. Length of the 

 body I H lines ; of the wings 21 linos. 



St. Thomas i' 



