54 TNSECTA SAUNDERSIAN'A. 



Tabanus sanguineus, Fern. 



Rufus, abdominis laterihusflavis, segmentorum marginihus posticis fulvis, 

 antennis basi pedibusque ferrugineis, tibiis Jlavis, tarsis nigris, alls 

 Umpidis basi et ad costam subfulvis. 



Body red, thinly clothed with pale yellow hairs : head tawny in front, 

 thickly clothed beneath with white hairs : eyes brassy-black, parted above 

 by a moderate interval ; facets small, but rather larger on the fore part 

 than elsewhere : sucker black ; lancets ferruginous ; palpi tawny : first 

 and second joints of the feelers ferruginous, produced above into short 

 black horns : abdomen obconical, much longer than the chest ; hind 

 borders of the segments tawny ; sides of the second, third and fourth seg- 

 ments yellow : legs ferruginous, clothed with short yellow hairs ; shanks 

 yellow, their tips and the foot-cushions ferruginous ; feet black, clothed 

 with black hairs : wings colourless, with a slight tawny tinge at the base 

 and along the fore border ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous ; curve of the 

 tip cross-vein almost obtusely angular, with no stump ; scales and poisers 

 tawny, the latter with white knobs. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the 

 wings 16 lines. 



Java. 



Tabanus obconicus, Mas. 



Ferrugineus, thorace fulvo subvittato, abdomine fulvo maculis trigonis 

 fermgineis ornato, antennis feiTugineis basi fulvis, pedibus fulvis, 

 tarsis piceis, alls snbcinereis basi et ad costam subfulvis. 



Body ferruginous : head tawny in front, clothed beneath with whitish 

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

 brassy red, composed of very large facets ; fore region purplish black, with 

 a brassy tinge, surrounding the other by means of a narrow band along the 

 hind border of the eyes, composed of small facets: palpi tawny: feelers 

 ferruginous ; first joint tawny ; third slightly conical above but with no 

 horn ; compound joint slightly curved upward, darker at the tip : chest 

 with indistinct tawny stripes, clothed with tawny hairs ; breast more 

 thickly clothed with pale yellow hairs : abdomen tawny, obconical, very 

 much longer than the chest, darker towards the tip ; third and each of the 

 folio wing segments adorned with two triangular ferruginous spots resting 



