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black ; thighs clothed with tawny hairs ; shanks and feet clothed with 

 short black hairs ; fore-shanks at the base, and four hinder shanks dark 

 ferruginous ; foot-cushions pale tawny : wings gray, brown at the base and 

 along the borders of the cross-veins, slightly tinged with brown beneath 

 the fore border as far as the brand, which is also brown ; wing-ribs dark 

 ferruginous ; veins black ; curve of the tip cross-vein very slight, no angle 

 nor stump ; scales gray, with tawny borders ; poisers tawny. Length of 

 the body 6 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



East India. 



Tabanus puella, Mas. 



Ferrugineus, pectore cano, abdomine bnsi fulvo pilis fulvis trivittato, an- 

 tennis pedibusque fulvis, tarsis posterioribus bnsijlavis,alis limpidis. 



Allied to T. Virgo, of Wiedemann. Body ferruginous : head adorned 

 with a tawny triangular spot at the base of the feelers, clothed beneath with 

 white hairs : eyes very large, divided into two very distinct regions ; upper 

 region bright red, very large, and composed of very large facets ; fore region 

 pitchy, small, composed of small facets, confined to the sides, not extend- 

 ing along the hind border of the eyes : sucker and lancets pale ferruginous : 

 palpi whitish yellow, clothed towards the tips with short black hairs : 

 feelers short, bright tawny ; tips of the first and second joints forming 

 acute angles above ; third joint deep, convex beneath, not horned, but form- 

 ing an obtuse angle above ; compound joint small, hardlif curved upward, its 

 tip black : chest tinged with gray : breast hoary : abdomen dull ferrugi- 

 nous, obconical, very much longer than the chest, tawny towards the base, 

 adorned with three indistinct stripes which are formed of short pale yellow 

 hairs ; a hoary tinge on the under side : legs tawny, clothed with short 

 whitish hairs ; shanks and feet clothed with very short black hairs ; four 

 hinder feet yellow at the base ; claws black towards the tips ; wings colour- 

 less ; wing-ribs and veins tawny, the latter darker towards the tips ; brands 

 pale tawny; angle of the tip cross-vein distinct, but vrith no stump; scales 

 grayish, with tawny borders ; poisers pale tawny. Length of the body 4 

 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



East India. 



