58 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



little punctures which are variously disposed : legs tawny, clothed with 

 short whitish hairs ; hips and thighs gray ; feet pitchy ; fore-feet and tips 

 of fore-shanks black : wings gray, tawny at the base and beneath the fore 

 border as far as the brand, and along the borders of the veins ; brand yel- 

 lowish brown ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; 

 ow almost angular curve, but no stump near the base of the lip cross-vein ; 

 scales dull tawny ; poisers bright tawny. Length of the body 7| lines ; 

 of the wings 15 lines. 



Asia ? 



Australian Species. 



Tabanus abstersus, Feni. 



JNigro-cinereus, thoracis lateribus, peclore, abdominisque segmenlorum mar- 

 ginibus posticis ferrugineis, antennis ferrugineis apice piceis, pedibus 

 ferrugiiieis, tibiis anticis apice tarsisque piceis, tarsis anticis nigris, 

 alis cinereis. 



Body black : head adorned with a hoary covering, which is inter- 

 rupted by a black, shining, club-shaped mark on the crown ; under side 

 clothed with white hairs : eyes bronzed ; the facets as usual : sucker 

 black ; lancets and palpi pale ferruginous ; a hoary tinge on the palpi : 

 feelers dark ferruginous, seated on a ferruginous tubercle ; third joint 

 forming above an extremely obtuse and shallow angle whose fore side is 

 slightly concave, its hind side slightly convex ; compound joint pitchy, very 

 slightly curved upward, much longer than the third joiyit : chest tinged with 

 gray ; sides and breast pale ferruginous, thinly clothed with hoary hairs : 

 abdomen slightly obconical, much longer than the chest, thinly clothed 

 with short hoary and black hairs ; hind borders of the segments pale fer- 

 ruginous : legs ferruginous ; hips and thighs tinged with gray ; feet and 

 tips of the fore-shanks pitchy ; claws and fore-feet black ; foot-cushions 

 tawny: wings gray ; wing-ribs ferruginous; veins black, ferruginous to- 

 wards the base ; angle of the tip cross-vein slightly obtuse, very distinct, its 

 stump as long as its shorter side ; scales gray ; poisers tawny with pitchy 

 tips. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



New South Wales. 



