52 TNSECTA SAUNDERSIAiNA. 



Tabanus umbrosub, Felii. 



Cinereus, thorace vittis trihus ferrugineis ornato, abdomine rufo-fusco 

 vittis tribus fulvis, antennis basi pedibusque fulvis, femoribus sub- 

 cinereis, tarsis piceis, tarsis anticis nigris, alis cinereis. 



Head adorned with a whitish covering, clothed beneath with white 

 hairs : a club-shaped, dark tawny, shining mark on the crown : eyes 

 bronzedj parted above by a moderate interval : sucker pitchy : palpi pale 

 yellow, clothed Avith very short black hairs : first and second joints of the 

 feelers tawny : chest and breast gray ; sides ferruginous ; chest adorned 

 with three indistinct ferruginous stripes: abdomen reddish brown, slightly 

 obconical, longer than the chest, adorned with three pale tawny stripes ; 

 middle stripe narrow, linear ; side pair broader and composed of spots ; 

 under side tawny : legs tawny, clothed with very short black hairs ; thighs 

 tinged with gray, clothed with pale tawny hairs ; claws, fore-feet and tips 

 of fore-shanks black ; feet pitchy ; foot-cushions pale tawny : wings gray ; 

 wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy at the base and along the fore border ; 

 curve of the tip cross-vei7i not angular ; scales dark tawny, poisers pitchy, 

 with yellow knobs. licngth of the body 8| lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



East India^ 



Tabanus hirtus, Mas. 



NigrO'cinerevs, abdominis hasi utrinque el segtnentorum marginibns posti- 

 cis fulvis, palpis fulvis, antennis pedibnsq^ie nigris, tibiis posterioribus 

 ferrugineis, alis cinereis basi casta nerinsqne transversis fuscis. 



Body grayish black : head clothed in front and beneath with dull pale 

 tawny hairs : eyes dark bronze, very thickly clothed with short tawny 

 hairs, having only one region, which is composed of very small facets : 

 sucker black : palpi dark tawny, very thickly clothed with black and pale 

 tawny hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints thickly clothed with 

 black hairs ; third joint very shallow, rather convex beneath, slightly rising, 

 and forming a very obtuse angle above : chest clothed with dull, dark 

 tawny hairs ; breast tinged with gray, clothed with paler hairs : abdomen 

 obconical, longer and a little broader than the chest, clothed on each side 

 with black and taw ny hairs ; a large dark taw ny spot on each side of the 

 first and second segments ; hind borders of the segments pale tawny ; legs 



