64 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



Tabanus variatus, Fem. 



Cinereus, thoracis laterihus vittisque tribiis canis, abdumine fulvo maculis 

 trigonis canis nigra marginatis rittaque ferruginea variatis ornalo, 

 antennis nigris basi ferrugineis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus cinereis, 

 tarsis piceis, propedum femoribus tibiis apice tarsisque nigris, alis 

 subcinereis. 



Body gray : head adorned with a yellowish white covering, which is 

 interrupted by a pitchy convex club-shaped mark in front of the crown ; 

 under side white and clothed with white hairs : eyes bronzed ; the facets 

 as usual : sucker black ; lancets ferruginous ; palpi pale yellow, clothed 

 with short black hairs : feelers black, partly ferruginous towards the base ; 

 third joint slightly convex beneath, armed above with a small short stout 

 slightly acute horn ; compound joint curved upward, shorter than the third 

 joint : chest adorned with three hoary stripes ; sides and breast hoary ; 

 tip of the scutcheon ferruginous : abdomen obconical, tawny, longer than 

 the chest, pitchy towards the tip, adorned above with a stripe composed of 

 hoary triangular spots with black borders and inlaid in a broad ferrugi- 

 nous stripe : legs tawny ; thighs gray ; feet pitchy ; claws black, tawny at 

 the base ; fore-thighs, fore-feet, and tips of fore-shanks black ; tips of the 

 middle-shanks armed with black spines -. wings pale gray ; wng-ribs and 

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

 obtuse, slightly rounded; brands pale brown ; scales tawny ; poisers tawny, 

 >vith yellowish knobs. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 15 lines. 



Tabanus honestus, Fem. 



Niger fulvo tectus, thoracis lateribus fulvo maculatis, pectore cano, abdo- 

 mine fulvo, vitta apiceque nigris, antennis fulvis apice fei~rugineis, 

 pedibus fulvis, tarsis anticis nigris, alis limpidis basi et ad costam 

 fulvis. 



Body black : head covered with tawny bloom, tinged with hoary, and 

 clothed with yellow hairs beneath ; two shining, black, convex marks in 

 front of the crown, the one conical, the other round : eyes red, parted 

 above by a rather broad interval ; all the facets veiy small : sucker pitchy ; 

 lancets pale ferruginous ; palpi pale yellow, thinly clothed with short black 



