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thinly clothed with short black hairs ; third gibbous and armed with a black 

 point above, but not forming a horn ; compound joint black, very slightly 

 curved upward : breast hoary ; sides clothed with pale yellow hairs : abdo- 

 men black, obconical, much longer than the chest, thinly clothed with 

 short pale yellow and black hairs, adorned with a large tawny spot on each 

 side towards the base, and with a tawny hind border to each segment : legs 

 gray, clothed with short yellow hairs ; tips of the thighs tawny ; shanks 

 tawny, with pitchy tips ; feet pitchy above, tawny beneath ; claws black ; 

 foot-cushions tawny : wings pale gray, tawny at the base and along the 

 fore border as far as the brand, which is pale brown ; wing-ribs tawny ; 

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

 vein, but no angle nor stump; scales tawny; poisers ferruginous. Length 

 of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



East India. 



Tabanus calidus, Fem. 



Cinereo-fulvus, thorace fulvo trivittato, abdomine fulvo vitta pallidiorc, 

 upice piceo, antennis basi pedibusque fnlvis,femorihus cinereis, tarsis 

 piceis, alis cinereis, basi cnsta venarumque marginibus fulvis. 



Body grayish tawny : head covered above with buff, hoary behind and 

 beneath where it is thinly clothed with white hairs ; crown adorned with 

 a shining, pitchy, club-shaped, convex mark, which has slight oblique fur- 

 rows : feeler region with a slight interrupted cross-fturow behind, and with 

 a more distinct longitudinal furrow; region of the face divided by a curved 

 furrow from that of the eyes, and having on each side a ridge which ex- 

 tends to the base of the palpi : eyes bronze, with a purple tint in front, 

 parted above by a moderately broad interval ; facets very small, a little 

 larger on the inner side of the fore part than elsewhere : sucker rather 

 long, tinged with grayish tawny towards the base, pitchy towards the tip ; 

 palpi yellow, clothed with very short black and pale yellow hairs : first and 

 second joints of the feelers tawny -. chest with three indistinct tawny stripes ; 

 sides somewhat tawny ; l)reast hoary, partly clothed with whitish hairs : 

 abdomen tawny, obconical, very much longer than the chest, pitchy to- 

 wards the tip, adorned above with a silky lustre, and with a broad regular 

 buflf stripe which extends along the whole length, and has on each side 

 one of the same colour, but indistinct and irregular ; under side tinged 

 with hoary ; segments above and beneath impressed with several rows of 



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