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Face thickly covered with bright orange-red pubescence, the 

 hairs in middle of face and a tuft at sides rather more golden 

 yellow, a few brown hairs are visible on cheeks bordering the eyes, 

 and a tuft-like fringe between the antennae and the e^^es. Beard 

 orange-red, thick. Palpi dull reddish, appearing black ^by reason 

 of the thick black pubescence, stout, almost the same width 

 throughout. Antennae red, the first two joints covered with black 

 hairs, the third large, broad, the last four divisions forming hardly 

 a fourth of the whole length ; the tooth is represented only by a 

 very slight angle indeed. Subcallus blackish, covered with reddish 

 brown tomentum. Forehead darker, narrow, about nine times as 

 long as it is broad, and a third narrower anteriorl}^; frontal callus 

 black, shining, long and narrow, almost reaching the eyes with a long 

 stout linear extension. Thorax, scutellum and abdomen dull black- 

 ish brown, covered with close black pubescence, on the shoulders 

 and sides of thorax it is longer ; breast with dense orange-red long 

 pubescence ; in the centre it is nearly bare, covered with reddish 

 brown tomentum. Abdomen with white-haired segmentations on all 

 the segments but the first, thickest at the sides, hardly ever reach- 

 ing the centre but usuall}^ represented on the median line by a few 

 scattered white hairs ; the type itself is denuded and only shows the 

 white bands on the second and third, the segmentations under the 

 white pubescence at sides only, appear golden yellow, sides of ab- 

 domen with thick tuft-like black pubescence ; under side black with 

 white-haired segmentations. Legs black with black pubescence, the 

 tibiae white on the basal half with white pubescence, but black at 

 the extreme base. Wings a dark rich brown, a clear streak is visible 

 in the costal cell below stigma, another in the marginal cell, the discal 

 cell is whollv clear, the extreme apex, the basal cells and posterior 

 border much paler if not quite clear, veins and stigma blackish 

 brown, first posterior cell a little narrowed at opening. Squamae 

 brown. Halteres brown, the club at apex yellow. It is named 

 after the gentleman who has enriched the London School of 

 Tropical Medicine and Brit. Mus. coll. with a considerable number 

 of specimens from the Malay Archipelago. 



Tabanus fuscicornis, ? ^ n. sp. 



T^^pe 9 in Brit. Mus. coll. from Punkio, Formosa (A. E. 

 Wileman, 1909). 



This species is nearly allied to Tabanus pratti, n. sp., in 

 colouring, but is at once distinguished by the black antennae and 

 black palpi and by the more hyaline wings, quite clear at apex. 

 Length 17 mm. 



Face brownish yellow, paler at base, with a few black hairs, 

 the bright orange-red pubescence is here confined to the beard. 

 Palpi blackish with black pubescence more pointed than in 

 T. pratii. Antennae wholly black, the first two joints with 

 black pubescence, the third broad at base with a perceptible 



