134 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol,. IV, 



Atylotus bituberculatus, Bigot, Mem. Soc. Zool. de France, v, 

 659 (1892). 



Bigot gives China with a query as the locality for his type, 

 which is identical with Meigen's species. 



In British Museum collection are two females from Chinkiang 

 Yangtze River, China (B. G. Tours); and another from China is 

 in the Kertesz collection, so that the range of the species to the 

 east coast of China and within the line of the Oriental Region 

 is well established. 



The type of Tabanus hoang, 9 , Macq., Dipt, exot., Suppl. v, 

 p. 46 (1855), is apparently lost as, though the label is existent 

 among the Bigot types lent me by Mr. Verrall, there are no speci- 

 mens which answer to the description given by Macquart, in which 

 he says it is related to Tabanus fulvus, Mg. ; it was possibly identical 

 with this latter, judging from the description. In any event it 

 may now be deleted from the list of Tabanus. 



Tabanus ditaeniatus, & 9 , Macquart. 



Dipt, exot., i (i), p. 130 (1838); Walker, List Dipt., v, 

 pp. 236, 355 (1854) ; Bezzi, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2), xii 

 {xxxii), p. 184 (1892) ; Austen, Report Gordon Memorial College 

 {1906), p. 57, fig. 22; id., African Blood-Sucking Flies, p. 118, 

 pi. xi, fig. 82 (1909). 



Tabanus pyrrhus, Walker, Dipt. Saund., i, p. 47, pi. ii, 

 figs. 4, 5 (1850). 



Tabanus bipunctatus, v. d. Wulp, Notes Ley den Museum, 

 vii, p. 75, pi. V, fig. 5 (1885). 



Atvlotus nigromaculatus , Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), 

 vi, p. 165 (1900) ; Newstead, Ann. Tropical Medicine, 1907, 

 p. 44. 



The type was recorded [by Macquart from Mauritius ; it is 

 a common species in South Africa ; Coquillet records it from 

 Japan as Tabanus pyrrhus, — see Proc. U. States Mus., xxi, 

 p. 31 T (1898) ; as may be seen from the localities given below, 

 it has a wide distribution ranging from Africa to India, China 

 and Japan. 



In Indian Museum coll. and Howlett coll. are specimens 

 from Perso-Baluchistan Frontier; Pusa; Belgatchia, Calcutta, in 

 Bengal; Madras Coast; Umballa, N. W. India; Balighai in 

 Orissa, S. E. Bengal. In Brit. Mus. coll. specimens from Wei 

 Hai Wei, China ; " biting cows" (Muat). 



A greyish yellow species, the abdomen yellowish with a black- 

 ish brown broad median, and narrow lateral stripes, on the median 

 one appear greyish yellow tomentose triangular spots, the lateral 

 stripes do not reach the sides of abdomen and at apex coalesc e 

 with the median stripe ; the abdomen often varies in appearance 



