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Tabanis Janus, Fem. 



Fidvo-cinereus, thorace subvittato, pectore cano, abdomine fulvo apice 

 piceo, antennis ban pedibusque fuh-is, femoribus cinereis, tarsis 

 piceis, alis subcinereis basi et ad costamfuhns. 



Body gray : covering of the head tawny above, hoaiy beneath where 

 it is clothed with white hairs ; crown adorned with a pitchy, shining, in- 

 terrupted stripe : eyes bronze, parted above by a moderately broad inter- 

 val ; all the facets very small : sucker black ; palpi pale yellow, clothed 

 vFitli very short black hairs : first and second joints of the feelers tawny, 

 clothed with very short black hairs : chest adorned with a tawny tinge, 

 very indistinctly striped ; breast hoary, clothed with whitish hairs : abdo- 

 men tawny, obconical, clothed with short black hairs, paler beneath, 

 pitchy at the tip, very much longer than the chest : legs tawny ; hips and 

 thighs gray, clothed with whitish hairs ; shanks fringed with short black 

 hairs ; feet pitchy : wings pale gray, tawny at the base and along the fore 

 border as far as the brand which is dark tawny ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; 

 veins black, fermginous at the base and along the fore border ; curve of 

 the tip cross-vein rather slight, no angle' nor stump ; scales pale gray, with 

 ferruginous borders ; poisers tawny, with yellow tips. Length of the body 

 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



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Tabanus planus, Mas. 



Cinereus, pectore cano, abdnminis niaculis duabus basi lateribusque fulns, 

 antennis basi pedibusque Jlavis, femoribus cinereis, tibiis apice tar 

 sisque piceis, tibiis anticis fulvis apice nigris, tarsis anticis nigris, 

 alis limpidis. 



Body gray, thickly clothed with pale tawny hairs : covering of the 

 head pale tawny : under side clothed with pale yellow hairs : eyes red, of 

 one colour but divided into two distinct regions ; upper region shining, 

 larger than the other, composed of large facets ; fore region dull, composed 

 of very small facets, surrounding the first by means of a narrow band along 

 the hind border : sucker black, clothed with tawny hairs ; palpi pale yel- 

 low, clothed with paler hairs : first and second joints of the feelers clothed 

 with short black hairs ; first joint yellow, second tawny . i)rcast hoary : ab- 

 domen obconical, longer than the chest, adorned on each side of the base 



