30 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



Tabanus ferrifer, Feiu. 



Fen'ugineus, capiteflavo, vertice thoracisque littis quatuor fulvis, pectore. 

 carlo, abdomine nigro-fusco, dorso maculis fulvis trivittato, lateribus 

 basi venlrisque segmentorum marginibus posticis fulvis, anlennis fer- 

 rugineis basi fulvis apice nigris, pedibus fulvis, tibiis ferrugineis, 

 tarsis piceis, alis cinereis, basi venartimque marginibus subfuscis. 



Body with a dark ferruginous covering : head dark tawny above, pale 

 yellow in front and beneath where it is clothed with whitish hairs ; a long 

 club-shaped ferruginous mark on the crown: eyes dark bronze, parted 

 above by a moderately broad interval ; all the facets very small: sucker 

 pitchy ; lancets ferruginous ; palpi pale yellow, clothed with short black 

 hairs : feelers long, dark ferruginous ; first and second joints tawny, 

 clothed with short black hairs ; tip of the first joint produced above into a 

 long conical horn with a black tip ; tip of the second joint forming an 

 acute angle on each side ; horn of the third joint short, stout ; compound 

 joint black, very slightly curved upivard : chest adorned with four indistinct 

 dark tawny stripes : breast hoary, clothed with whitish hairs : abdomen 

 dark brown, obconical, very much longer than the chest, tawny on each 

 side at the base, adorned above with three rows of pale tawny spots ; mid- 

 dle row shorter and less distinct than the side pair ; a bright tawny band 

 on the hind border of each ventral segment ; legs tawny, clothed with short 

 yellow hairs ; shanks and feet clothed with short black hairs ; shanks fer- 

 ruginous ; feet pitchy ; claws and fore-feet black ; foot-cushions tawny : 

 wings gray, slightly brown at the base and along the borders of the veins ; 

 brands brown ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, here and there ferrugi- 

 nous ; a curve, which especially is clouded with brown, near the base of the 

 tip cross-vein ; no angle nor stump ; scales tawny ; poisers yellow, with 

 whitish tips. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



Barbadoes ? 



Tabanus submacula, Plate 2, fig. 8. 



Fem. Nigro-cinereus, thoracis vittis duabus pectoreque cariis, lateribus 

 ferrugineis, abdomine fasciculis albis ornato, antennis pedibusque 

 nigris, alis cinereis fusco maculatis basi et ad costam fulvis. 



Allied to Pangonia. Body black : covering of the head dark tawny 

 above, hoary beneath where it is thickly clothed with long white hairs ; a 



