66 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



cross-vein; scales colourless, with tawny borders ; poisers tawny- Length 

 of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. 



Tabanus rufoniger, Fem. 



Niijer, capite anticc suhtusque fidvo, thoracis laierihus viltis (hiabus pec- 

 toreque rujis, ahdomine hasi suhtusque rufo, segmentorum marginibu-^ 

 posticis siibtus fulms, pedihus piceis, alls ciiiereis, hasi casta venarum- 

 que marginibus fuscis. 



Body black : head in front and beneath tawny, covered with a hoary 

 bloom, clothed with pale yellow hairs : eyes bronze, large, parted by a very 

 narrow interval on the crown, and almost in contact on the fore part ; fa- 

 cets very small, Init a little larger in front than elsewhere : sucker black ; 

 lancets ferruginous ; palpi yellow : feelers black ; the horn stout, cw~i^ed, 

 rather long : chest and breast dark red ; disk of the chest black, with the 

 exception of two dark red stripes : abdomen obconical, much longer but 

 not broader than the chest, dark red above at the base and on the sides of 

 the second segment ; beneath dark red, clothed with short tawny hairs, 

 and adorned with a tawny hind border to each segment : legs pitchy, 

 clothed with short black hairs ; thighs clothed with tawny hairs ; knees 

 dark red ; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny : wings dark gray, brown at 

 the base and beneath the fore border for three-fourths of the length and 

 along the borders of the veins in the disk ; wing-ribs and veins black ; 

 tip cross-veiti forming a slightly obtuse angle, ivithout a stump ; posterior 

 submarginal areolet open to the border ; scales blackish ; poisers white. 

 Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



Tabanus redactus, Fem. 



Niger, abdomine ferrugineo vitta nigra ornato, antennis fulvis, pedibus 

 ferrugineis, alls cinereis basi et ad costam fulvis. 



Body black : head thinly clothed beneath with short pale yellow hairs ; 

 crown with four shining pitchy convexities, the fourth large, occupying the 

 space between the third and the feelers, slightly furrowed : eyes dark 

 bronze, thinly clothed with short tawny hairs, parted above by a very bi'oad 



