GERTRUDE RICARDO, NOTES ON TABANI ETC. 549 
coxae with white pubescence, elsewhere black. Wings clear, 
veins brown. 
Tabanus batavus n.sp. Types male and female from Java. 
A species belonging to Group X, distinguished by the 
abdomen being yellowish at base, otherwise black. Antennae 
reddish. Legs black. Wings tinged brown. Length 15 mm. 
©. Face covered with reddish brown tomentum, the pubes- 
cence brownish. Beard blackish brown. Palpi yellowish brown 
with black pubescence, stout, ending in a point. Antennae 
- slender, reddish, the first two joints with some black hairs, 
the third with a distinct tooth, long and slender. Forehead 
darker than face, narrow, about ten times as long as it is 
wide anteriorly, where it is hardly more than half as wide 
as at vertex, frontal callus narrow, shining yellowish brown, 
reaching the eyes. Thorax dark brown, shoulders yellowish. 
Seutellum yellowish. Abdomen with the first two segments 
yellowish, the others black, the first four segments with pale 
yellow hairs on posterior borders, pubescence on dorsum yellow 
on the first two segments, elsewhere black; underside almost 
wholly black witb pale haired segmentations. Legs blackish, 
the tibiae more reddish, the fore tibiae pale, at base obscurely 
reddish yellow. Wings tinged brown, paler at base, veins 
reddish yellow. 
The male is similar, Palpi reddish yellow with black hairs. 
The large facets of eyes reach beyond the apex of the frontal 
triangle, but do not reach the vertex, a narrow border of 
the small facets extending to the vertex. 
Abdomen with the anterior border of third segment also „, 
yellowish. — 
After comparison with Bigot’s Type my Tabanus designatus, 
to be published in Nova Guinea vol. 9, p. 390, has shown to 
be identical to Tabanus rufinotatus Bigot (Mém. Soc. Zool. de 
France V, p. 675), from Australia. 
Tijdschr. v. Entom. LV, 23 
