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



(1828); V. d. Wulp, Sumatra Exped. Dipt., p. 16 (1881) ; id., Notes 

 Leyden Museum, vii, p. 71 (1885). 



Tabanus dorsilinea, cf , Wied., Anal. Entom., p. 22 (1824); id., 

 Auss, Zweifl. Ins., i, p. 184 (1828). 



Tabanus sinicus, cf , Wlk., I^ist Dipt., i, p. 163 (1848). 



Tabanus ienens, 2 , Wlk., Ins. Saund. Dipt., i, p. 49 (1850). 



Tabanus megalops, & , Wlk., Ivist Dipt., v, Suppl. i, pp. 247, 

 407 (1854). 



Tabanus partitus, 2 , Wlk., Proc. Linn. Soc. London, i p. 9 

 (1856). 



? Tabanus manilensis, 2 , Schiner, Reise Novara Dipt., p. 84 

 {1868). 



Atylotus macer, d» , Bigot, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, v, p. 649 

 (1892). 



Tabanus mfocallosus, 9 , Bigot, /. c, p. 679. 



Reddish brown; thorax with white stripes, abdomen with 

 three wide white stripes. Length 5-6 lines, 0" 2 . From China 

 and Java. Fabr., Ent S3^st., iv, 371, 39 (1794). 



Ashy gre}^, abdomen brown with three abbreviated white lines. 

 Fabr., Syst. Antl., 103, 47 (1805). 



Antennae rusty yellow. Face grey-haired. Beard whitish. 

 Forehead yellowish with a smooth band widened above and below 

 into a square callus. Thorax in certain lights appearing white, 

 with four broad whitish stripes and a line in the middle always 

 apparent. Sides of breast white-haired. Abdomen in unrubbed 

 specimens with three broad white unabbreviated stripes; the 

 side borders also white so that really five stripes are present. 

 Wings h3^aline. Halteres brownish with white knob. Femora 

 reddish rust}- brown, tibiae paler. Tarsi blackish brown. Wied., 

 Auss. Zweifl. Ins., i, 155, 69 (1828). 



Van der Wulp records a male from Soerian Sumatra, in 

 Sumatra Exped. Dipt., 16, 3 (1881), and gives the following 

 details : — 



'' cf . Eyes are naked, flatter above than in other species, with 

 a coarse network and a purple transverse band, below which the 

 network becomes very fine. The white stripes on the thorax are 

 indistinct, as are the two side stripes on the dorsum of 

 abdomen, which latter ends in a point. The wings are quite clear, 

 but have a pale grey tinge, the costal cell is yellow, the stripe- 

 like stigma yellow-brown. " 



In Notes Leyden Museum, vii, 71, 24 (1885), he records cf 

 and 2 from Java and Sumatra and adds — 



'* Eyes bare, in cf reddish bronze above with large facets, the 

 lower third and the borders blackish with small facets ; the two parts 

 distinctly separated ; in the 2 the eyes are uniform bronze with 

 small facets. " 



