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liairs : sucker bUirk, clothed with short tawny hairs ; lancets ferruginous ; 

 palpi tawny, rather large: feelers black, first joint ferruginous, armeil with 

 a short horn ; Imm of the third joint long, curved downward : chest and 

 breast clothed with tawny haiis, which are most thick on the breast ; hind 

 border of the scutcheon red : abdomen nearly obconical, a little broader 

 and longer than the chest, red towards the base : legs dark red ; feet 

 pitchy ; claws black : foot-cushions tawny ; hind-shanks fringed with short 

 black hairs : wings gray, with a ferruginous tinge at the base and along 

 the fore border for most of the length ; cross-veins slightly clouded with 

 brown ; tip cross-vein forming a distinct obtuse angle near the base where 

 there is no stump ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the 

 base and along part of the fore border; scales blackish* poisers tawny. 

 Length of the body 7\ lines ; of the wings 17 lines. 



Columbia. 



TaBANUS HIRTITIIilA, Feui . 



Niger, thoracis latcribus abdoinineque ferrugineis, hujus vitta dursali nigra, 

 antennis hasi pedibusque nigris,Xibiis ferrugineis, tarsis posterioribus 

 piceis, tibiis posticis nigro cilia tis, alis nigro-cinereis, busi costa ve- 

 na rumq ue ma rginibus Jla vo-fuscis. 



Body black : head covered with yellowish brown, clothed with dull 

 tawny hairs ; a slender, shining, black ridge along the whole length of the 

 crown : eyes dark l)ronzc, parted al)ove by a moderately broad interval ; all 

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

 tawny, clothed with sliort black hairs: first and second joints of feeler-; 

 black: chest partly ferruginous and thinly clothed with ta\\ny hairs on 

 each side : abdomen deep ferruginous, very slightly obconical, a little 

 broader and much longer than the chest, adorned above with a black stripe, 

 which is interrupted on the hind borders of the segments towards the tip ; 

 sides and hind borders of the segments clothed with short black hairs ; 

 under side paler : legs black, thickly clothed with pale yellow hairs ; 

 shanks and feet clothed with short black hairs ; shanks very dark ferrugi- 

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

 shanks fringed with rather long black hairs; wiuus dark gray, yellowish 

 brown at the base and beneath the fore border and along the borders of 

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

 occasionally in the disk ; angle of the tip cross-vei7i veri/ distinct, slightli/ 

 ohtxtse, sending forth (on one wing only of the insect described) a short 



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