50 INSECT A SAUNDERSIANA. 



pound joint ferruginous, slightly curved upward, shorter that the third joint : 

 chest and breast lioary ; disk of the former ferruginous, adorned with two 

 oblong hoary stripes : abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest ; 

 its back brownish ferruginous, adorned with three hoary stripes, the side 

 pair connected by a slender band at the base, and extending thence to the 

 hind border of the third segment ; the middle one begins at the fore border 

 of the third segment, and extends nearly to the tip ; under side pale 

 tawny, clothed with short whitish hairs : legs tawny, clothed with short 

 pale hairs ; hips and thighs tinged with gray ; feet ferruginous ; claws 

 black ; fore-feet and tips of fore-shanks pitchy -. wings colourless ; wing- 

 ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; curve of the tip cross- 

 vein slightly inclining to a very obtuse angle. Length of the body 5^ lines ; 

 of the wings 1 1 lines. 



East India. 



Tabanus crassus, Mas. 



Piceo-ferruginetts, latus, abdomiJie basi fulvo, antennis basi fulvis, pedibns 

 piceis, alis limpidis. 



Body very stout, dark ferruginous, inclining to pitch colour, with a 

 slight hoary covering : head dark tawny beneath ; eyes bronzed, of one 

 colour, but as usual, of two regions : sucker black ; first and second joints 

 of the feelers tawny : abdomen slightly obconical, a little longer and 

 broader than the chest, dark tawny towards the base above : legs pitchy ; 

 foot-cushions tawny ; claws black, tawny towards the base : wings colour- 

 less ; brands brown ; wing-ribs and veins pale ferruginous, the latter 

 darker towards the tips ; eitrve of the tip cross-vein slight ; scales and 

 poisers dark tawny ; knobs of the latter bright pale yellow. Length of the 

 body 8| lines ; of the wings 17 lines. 



East India. 



Tabanus vagus, Fern. 



Cinereus, thoracis lateribus ferrugineis, abdomine ferruginco maculis tri- 

 gonis Jlavo-pilosis trivillato, antennis basi fulvis, pedibus ferrugineis, 

 tarsis piceis, tibiis apice tarsisque nigris, alis subcinereis. 



Body gray : crown of the head with a dark tawny covering, which is 

 interrupted by a ferruginous, shining, club-shaped, convex mark ; front 



