■i-i TNSECTA SAUNDKRSIANA. 



a dull tawny covering : legs tawny, clothed with short yellow hairs ; hips 

 and thighs black with a tawny tinge ; shanks and feet clothed with short 

 black hairs ; tips of hind shanks pitchy ; claws, fore-shanks from the middle 

 to the tips and fore-feet black ; four hinder feet pitchy, tawny at the base ; 

 foot-cushions dull tawny: wings colourless ; brands dark tawny : wing-ribs 

 and veins tawny, the latter pitchy towards the tips ; a nearly right angle 

 with a long slump near the base of the tip cross-vein ; scales pale tawny ; 

 poisers whitish yellow. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 12 

 lines. 



Cape. 



TaBANUS ALBII'ALPnS, FcUl. 



Nigro-cinereus, capitis vet lice thoracisijue laterihus fulm niaculalis, abdo- 

 minis later ibus basifulvis, segmenlurum marginibns posticis ferrugi- 

 neis, anlennis fiilvis apice ferrugineis,pedibusJiavis,femoribus basi 

 tibiis anticis apice tarsisque anlicis nigris, alis limpidis. 



Body grayish-black : head thinly clothed beneath with whitish hairs ; 

 a small tawny spot on the hinder crown -. eyes red, parted above by a very 

 broad interval, each adorned with an oblique dark stripe which extends 

 from the fore inner to the hind outer border ; all the facets very small : 

 sucker dark ferruginous, very short ; lancets tawny ; palpi yellowish white, 

 clothed with short white and black hairs : feelers tawny, very short ; first 

 and second joints clothed with short black hairs, each produced above into 

 a black angle ; third joint convex above at the base, not horned ; compound 

 joint ferruginous, short, rery slightly curved upward : a tawny spot on each 

 side of the chest at the base of the wings : abdomen slightly obconical, 

 very much longer than the chest, adorned with a short tawny stripe on 

 each side near the base ; hind borders of the segments ferruginous ; undei 

 side mostly gray : legs pale yellow ; thighs towards the base and hips 

 black; tips of the joints of the feet brown; claws, fore-shanks from the 

 middle to the tips and fore-feet black : wings colourless ; wing-ribs and 

 veins tawny ; angle of the tip cross-veins very obtuse, with no stump ; 

 brands very indistinct; scales colourless, with pale yellow borders ; poisers 

 whitish yellow. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



Gambia. 



