BIPTERA. fiT 



interval ; all the facets very small : sucker pitchy ; palpi yellow, with 

 pitchy tips : feelers ta\vny ; first and second joints clothed with short 

 black hairs ; third ivith a protuherance, hul no horn : chest and breast 

 clothed with pale yellow hairs which are longest and most numerous on 

 the breast ; a tawny spot on each side at the base of the wing : abdomen 

 pale ferruginous, slightly obconical, a little broader and much longer than 

 the chest, adorned with a black stripe which widens and becomes irregular 

 towards the tip ; under side not striped ; fore borders of the segments to- 

 wards the tip pitchy ; hind borders yellow on each side : legs pale ferru- 

 ginous, clothed with short tawny hairs ; thighs clothed with longer hairs, 

 black towards the base ; a few black hairs towards the tips of the shanks ; 

 feet ferruginous, with pitchy tips ; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny : 

 wings gray, tawny at the base and along the fore border for more than 

 half the length ; brands yellowish brown ; cross-veins clouded with brown ; 

 wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base and along the 

 fore border ; angle of the tip cross-rein very obtuse, no stump ; scales tawny ; 

 poisers tawny, with pitchy knobs. Length of the body <> lines ; of the 

 winofs 12 lines. 



Tabanus sknior, Fem. 



Alho-rvfus, ahdomine fasciculis alhis bivittato, antennis ni(jris basi fnlvis, 

 pedihus ferrugineis, fenioribus alhidis, tarsis piceis,alis cinereis basi 

 casta nervorumque marffinibus fulvis. 



Body dull red : head white in front and beneath where it is thickly 

 clothed with white hairs : eyes bronzed, parted above by a very narrow in- 

 terval : sucker black ; lancets ferruginous ; palpi yellow, clothed with black 

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

 hairs ; third forming a verj/ obtuse angle beneath, armed above irilh a r^ery 

 stout, moderately long, acute horn : chest adorned with a whitish tinge, 

 clothed on each side with a few black hairs: breast whitish, clothed with 

 white hairs : abdomen slightly obconical, much longer than the chest, 

 adorned with two stripes of patches of white hairs ; sides and under side 

 more thickly clothed with white hairs ; legs ferruginous, clothed with short 

 black hairs; thighs tinged with white, clothed with white hairs; feet 

 pitchy; claws black, tawny at the base; foot-cushions pale tawny ; fore- 

 thighs and fdrc-Ceet black: wings gray, dark tawny at tlie base, bencatii 

 the fore border and alon<i' the l)()r<leis lA' tlio veins; wing-ribs and veins 



