56 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



Tabanus consocius, Fem. 



Nifjro-cineretis, capite siihtus Jlavescente, jjectore cano, ahdomine fulvo apice 

 nigro, segmentorum marginibiis posticis Jlavis, antennis haai fulvis, 

 pedihus fulvis, tarsis anticis femorlhiisque nigris,tibiis tarsisque apice 

 ferrugineis, alis subcinereis basi et ad costam subfulvis. 



Body black : head tliickly covered witli tawny bloom, pale yellow 

 and clothed with pale yellow hairs beneath : eyes dark bronze, parted on 

 the crown by a moderate interval ; all the facets very small : sucker black ; 

 lancets pale ferruginous ; palpi pale tawny with darker tips, clothed with 

 short black hairs : first and second joints of the feelers tawny, clothed with 

 black hairs : chest tinged with gray, clothed on each side with some pale 

 yellow hairs ; breast hoary : abdomen tawny, obconical, much longer than 

 the chest, black towards the tip ; hind borders of the segments yellow : 

 legs tawny, clothed with short black and tawny hairs ; thighs black, with 

 tawny tips, clothed with long pale yellow hairs ; tips of the shanks and of 

 the feet ferruginous ; claws and fore-feet black ; foot-cushions dark tawny : 

 wings slightly gray, tawny at the base and along two-thirds of the length 

 of the fore border ; brands yellowish brown ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, 

 tawny towards the base ; angle of the tip cross-vein obtuse, distinct ; no 

 stump ; scales grayish ; poisers bright pale tawny. Length of the body 

 6J lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 



East India. 



Tabanus perlinea, Fem. 



Cinereus, pectore cano, ahdomine nigro, mactda utrinque basi et segmen- 

 torum marginibus posticis fulvis, antennis ferrugineis basi fulvis, 

 apice nigris, pedibus cinereis, tibiis tarsisque fulvis, his supra piceis, 

 alis subcinereis basi et ad costam fulvis. 



Body gray : head covered above with tawny bloom, hoary behind and 

 beneath where it is clothed with pale yellow hairs ; a pitchy, shining, con- 

 vex mark in front of the crown : eyes black, parted above by a moderately 

 broad interval, composed of very small facets ; the facets on the inner 

 sides of the fore part are rather larger than those elsewhere : sucker black ; 

 lancets pale ferruginous ; palpi tawny, clothed vvith short black and pale 

 yellow hairs: feelers l)right pale ferruginous ; first and second joints tawny. 



