46 TNSECTA SAUNDEESIANA. 



stump near the base of the tip cross-vein ; scales dull grayish lawny : i)()isers 

 feiTuginous. Length of the body 4i lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



Cape. 



Tabanus siccus, Fern. 



Cinereus, abdomine ru/o, palpis JJavis, antennis rujls, pedibus fulvis, tarsis 

 piceis, tibiis anticis rujis, tarsis anticis nigris, alis subcinereis. 



Head adorned with a tawny covering which is interrupted by two fer- 

 ruginous, shining, convex dots on the crown ; eyes red, parted above by a 

 moderate interval : sucker pitchy ; lancets tawny ; palpi pale yellow, 

 clothed with very short black hairs : feelers pale red ; horn of the third 

 joint forming a very shalloiv, slighthj obtuse angle : chest and breast gray, 

 clothed with tawny hairs; sides pale red: abdomen pale red, obconical, 

 darker towards the tip, very much longer than the chesl ; hind borders of 

 the segments pale, and clothed with pale yellow hairs ; under side tawny : 

 legs tawny, clothed with very short black hairs ; thighs clothed with pale 

 yellow hairs ; feet pitchy ; claws and fore-feet black ; fore-shanks pale red -. 

 wings pale gray; wing-ribs and veins tawny; tip cross-vein forming a dis- 

 tinct, slightlg obtuse angle, and sending forth a stump which is rather longer 

 than its inner side ; scales pale gray, with tawny borders. liCngth of the 

 body 6^ lines ; of the wing.s 12 lines. 



Egypt- 



Asiatic Species. 

 Tabanus albulus, Mas et Fem. 



Canus, abdomine fusco-fulvo lateribus flam maculatis (fem. dorso cinereo), 

 antennis fulvis basi flar is, pedibus fulvis, alis alhidis. 



Male. Body hoary ; head yellow in front, whitish and clothed with 

 white hairs beneath : eyes of two regions and colours, the one pale red of 

 large facets, the other bronze-black, occupying the sides and extending in 

 a narrow band along the hind border: sucker pale ferruginous; lancets 

 tawny; palpi whitish, clothed with white hairs: feelers tawny ; first and 

 second joints yellow ; third slightlg convex beneath, the angle above extremely 

 shallow and obtuse, its fore side much more than twice the length of the hind 



