62 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



with a large pale tawny spot, which is continued in a side stripe to the 

 tip : legs pale yellow, clothed with pale yellow hairs ; hips and thighs gray ; 

 tips of the shanks pitchy ; feet pitchy, tawny at the base ; fore- shanks dark 

 tawny, black from the middle to the tips ; claws and fore-feet black ; foot- 

 cushions pale tawny : wings colourless ; wing-ribs and veins pale tawny, 

 the latter black towards the tips ; brands tawny ; angle of the tip cross-vein 

 very distinct, slightly obtuse, sending forth a moderately long stump ; scales 

 colourless, with pale yellow borders ; poisers tawny, with whitish yellow 

 knobs. Length of the body 6^ lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



Tabanus connexus. Fern. 



Cinereus, thoracis vittis trihus pectoreqve canis, abdomine piceo vittis una 

 integra duabusque interruptis cinereis ornato, segmentorum margini- 

 bus -posticis fidvis, antemiis fulvis apice nigris, pedibvs flavis, feniori- 

 btis cinereis, tarsis piceis, tarsis anticis nigris, alls cinereis. 



Body gray : covering of the head tawny, hoary beneath where it is 

 clothed with white hairs : eyes dark bronze, parted by a rather broad in- 

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

 with very short black hairs : feelers dark tawny ; first and second joints 

 clothed with short black hairs, their tips lengthened into acute angles ; 

 third joint slightly convex beneath, ividened above into a nearly right angle, 

 black towards the tip ; compound joint black, very slightly curved upivard ; 

 chest adorned with three indistinct hoary stripes: breast hoary, partly 

 clothed with white hairs : abdomen pitchy, dull, slightly obconical, very 

 much longer than the chest, adorned with three gray stripes, the middle 

 stripe entire, the side stripes formed of spots ; under side tinged 'with gray ; 

 hind borders of the segments pale tawny : legs yellow, clothed with short 

 pale yellow hairs ; hips and thighs gray ; tips of the shanks pitchy ; feet 

 pitchy, ferruginous towards the base ; claws and fore-feet black ; foot- 

 cushions pale tawny : wings gray ; brands brown ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins 

 black, ferruginous at the base and along the fore border ; a slight curve 

 near the base of the tip cross-vein, no angle nor stump ; scales gray, with 

 tawny borders ; poisers tawny, with paler tips. Length of the body 6 

 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



