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Black, with five gre}^ stripes on the thorax and three on the 

 abdomen. Legs and antennae ^^ellowish. Wings clear. Length 

 10 mm. 



9 . Face covered with grey tomentum and with white pubes- 

 cence. Beard white. Palpi greyish, with some white hairs at base, 

 and black hairs elsewhere, but these last are not very numerous. 



Antennae: the first joint yellow, the second and third red, 

 tooth at base small. Forehead broad, quite a third narrower an- 

 teriorly, and four times as long as it is wide, covered with yellow- 

 ish brown tomentum and with some black pubescence ; the frontal 

 callus yellowish brown, nearly square, and almost reaching the 

 eyes ; beyond it and sometimes connected by a very fine line is an 

 irregular-shaped black or brownish callus isolated in the middle of 

 the forehead. Eyes with three cross-bands. Thorax : the median 

 stripe is linear, the other ones broad, sides of thorax greyish, with 

 black pubescence. Scutellum : the lateral stripes are continued 

 here, leaving the centre blackish. Abdomen narrow, all three 

 stripes reaching from the first to the sixth segment; sides grey, 

 with white pubescence ; under side covered with grey tomentum. 

 Legs uniforml}^ reddish yellow, only the tarsi a little darker ; the 

 femora with grey tomentum and white pubescence. Wings clear, 

 the stigma and veins yellow. 



cf . The male is identical. Eyes with large facets above ; the 

 small ones on the lower third of eyes are continued round the head 

 as a verv narrow border. 



Group II. 



Forehead with two callosities, the first one usually transverse, 

 the second one smaller, oblong, or irregular shaped, separated from 

 each other ; forehead broad, four to six times as long as it is broad. 

 Small species , q — 14 mm. Scutellum white or yellow haired . Abdo- 

 men with white or yellow-haired bands. Tibiae white, fore tibiae 

 curved, and sometimes slightly incrassate. 



The species as yet described in this group are conferred to 

 India, Assam, Burma and Federated Malay States. 



Tabanus flavicinctus, 9 , n. sp. 



Type 9 from Shillong, Assam, in Howie tt collection ; 2 other 

 females from N. Khasi Hills, Lower Ranges (Chennell collection), 

 in the British Museum collection ; and another female from the 

 Nilgiris in Howlett collection. 



A species nearly allied to Tabanus leucocnematus , Bigot, but 

 distinguished from it by the presence of narrow yellow-haired 

 bands on every segment of abdomen except the first one. The sub- 

 callus and palpi are yellowish, the latter with the long-haired pubes- 

 cence yellow, the tibiae are yellowish, with the apices of the 

 fore pair more widely black, and the white pubescence on them 



