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hairs : feelers tawny ; first and second joints pale tawny, clothed with 

 short black hairs ; third joint convex beneath, angular above, but not horned ,• 

 compound joint pale ferruginous, curved upward : chest tinged with dull 

 tawny ; a tawny spot on each side at the base of the wings : breast hoary, 

 partly clothed with white hairs : abdomen bright tawny, slightly obconical, 

 clothed with short tawny hairs, veiy much longer than the chest, adorned 

 above with a black stripe which widens towards the tip, where it occupies 

 the whole surface ; under side paler: legs bright tawny, clothed with yel- 

 low hairs ; shanks and feet clothed with short black hairs ; tips of feet and 

 of fore-shanks pitchy ; claws and fore-feet black : wings colourless, tawny 

 at the base and along the fore border as far as the brand which is also 

 tawny ; wing-ribs and veins tawny, the latter pitchy towards the tips ; an- 

 gle of the tip crosa-vein obtuse, I'ery distinct, sending forth a short stump ; 

 scales slightly gray, with tawny borders ; poisers yellow, with whitish 

 knobs. Length of the body 7 lines; of the ivings 14 lines. 



Tabanus fulvigeh, Mas. 



Fulru.t, pectore cano, an tennis ferrugineis basi fulvis, pedibns fulvis, alis 

 limpidis. 



Body tawny : head pale tawny in front, whitish, and clothed with 

 white hairs beneath ; eyes brassy, of one colour but divided into two dis- 

 tinct regions ; upper region composed of very large facets ; fore region on 

 each side of the front, not extending along the hind border, composed of 

 very small facets : sucker pitchy ; palpi pale yellow, clothed with long 

 yellowish white hairs : feelers ferruginous ; first and second joints tawny, 

 clothed with short black hairs ; third nnusualli/ shallow at the base, almost 

 straight beneath, slightly rixiyig and forming a very obtiise angle above ; com- 

 pound joint dark ferruginous, rather long and slender, hardly curved up- 

 ward : chest thickly clothed with short tawny hairs : breast hoary, partly 

 clothed with whitish hairs : abdomen obconical, clothed w ith short tawny 

 hairs, longer and a little broader than the chest ; segments impressed with 

 rows of little punctures, their hind borders pale : legs tawny ; thighs 

 clothed with pale yellow hairs ; shanks and feet rather darker than the 

 thighs, clothed with short black hairs ; claws black ; foot-cusliions pale 

 tawny : wings quite colourless ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; an obtuse dis- 

 tinct angle sending forth a moderateli/ long slump near the base of the tip 



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