48 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



than its inner side ; brands pale yellow ; scales whitish with pale tawny 

 liorders ; poisers yellow. 



Fern. Crown of the head hoary, adorned with two black shining spots : 

 eyes red ; the facets as usual : sucker pitchy towards the tip : abdomen 

 gray, slightly obconical, clothed with short pale yellow hairs ; sides of the 

 first, second and third segments tawny ; under side hoary. 



Length of the body 5 — 5^ lines ; of the wings 9 — 10 lines. 



East India. 



TaBANUS ALBIMEDIUS, FeUl. 



Cinereo-ferrugineus, pectore cano, abdomine macidis fidvis siibtrif/onis 

 trivittato, antennis fulvis apice nigris, pedibus ferrugineis, tibiis 

 anticis apice tarsisque anticis piceis, alis limpidis. 



Body ferruginous : crown of the head adorned with a buff covering 

 which is interrupted by a ferruginous, convex, shining, club-shaped 

 mark ; under side white and clothed with white hairs : eyes brassy, 

 parted above by a moderate interval : sucker black ; lancets fen'uginous ; 

 palpi whitish yellow, clothed with short whitish hairs : feelers ferruginous ; 

 first and second joints tawny, beset above at the tips with very short black 

 bristles ; third joint slightly convex beneath, its horn forming a very shallow 

 and obtuse angle, ivhosefore side is very short and forms an extremely obtuse 

 angle tvith the continuation of the third joint to the tip; compound joint 

 black, curved upward, rather more than half the length of the third joint : 

 chest tinged with gray ; breast hoary, clothed with white hairs : abdomen 

 obconical, with a slight hoary tinge, much longer than the chest, adorned 

 above with three pale tawny stripes which are composed of imperfectly 

 triangular spots : legs ferruginous, clothed with short pale yellow hairs ; 

 thighs much paler than the shanks ; claws black ; fore-feet and tips of 

 fore-shanks pitchy : wings quite colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, 

 tawny towards the base ; brands dark tawny ; curve of the tip cross-vein in- 

 clining to an obtuse angle ; scales and poisers tawny, knobs of the latter 

 bright pale yellow. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



East India. 



