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covered with grey tomentum, the segmentations yellowish, the 

 pubescence chiefly black. Legs : the coxae and femora black with 

 grey tomentum and with white pubescence, the tibiae reddish, darker 

 at extreme apex, with chiefly black pubescence, the tarsi the same 

 colour but appearing darker on account of the thicker black pubes- 

 cence. Wings grey, tinged with brown on fore border, and round 

 veins. Halteres reddish brown, knobs pale yellowish red. 



The two females from N. Khasi are rather paler in colouring, 

 the abdomen more reddish, the thorax with sides and shoulders 

 reddish, the legs slightly redder, the wings clear with stigma and 

 veins yellow. 



The t3'pe and the majority of the specimens have a blackish 

 brown abdomen, but some are reddish brown. 



Tabanus brunnipennis, ? , n. sp. 

 (PI. xiii, fig. 9.) 



Type ( 2 ) and two other females from Basi, N. Kanara, S. W. 

 India (T. R. Bell), 1908; one 2 from Bangkok, Siam (vS. S. 

 Flower), 1908. 



In Howlett coll. one 9 from Gorakhpur, U. P., India. 



A well-marked brown species with a rather broad very dis- 

 tinct grey median stripe on abdomen, and two grey spots on the 

 second segment. Legs and antennae reddish. Wings gre}', tinged 

 brown on fore border as far as the second longitudinal vein. 

 Lens^th of tj^pe 16 mm. , other specimens from 13 — 15 mm. It is dis- 

 tinguished from T, monotaeniatus , Bigot, b}" its smaller size, and 

 the wings have not the cross- veins shaded, but the tinged fore 

 border sharply defined. 



Face covered with whitish grey tomentum and a few scattered 

 white hairs. Beard white. Palpi yellow with rather numerous 

 black hairs, stout at base ending in a long obtuse apex. Antennae 

 reddish, the first joint appearing paler with whitish tomentum and 

 some very fine black pubescence, the third slender with a ver^^ 

 slight tooth, brown at apex. Forehead covered with yellowish 

 brown tomentum and with a few black hairs, the same width 

 throughout, about six times as long as it is wide, the frontal callus 

 shining reddish brown, not reaching the eyes, club-shaped, the 

 linear extension thick ending in a point beyond the middle of the 

 forehead, in some of the specimens the callus appears larger, 

 apparently owing to denudation, a slight furrow appears each side 

 of the apex of callus converging towards the vertex. Thorax 

 blackish (when denuded reddish), covered with greyish tomentum 

 and black pubescence, two indistinct grey stripes apparent, with 

 traces of yellowish pubescence anteriorly, sides grey with white 

 hairs, shoulders reddish with black hairs, breast covered with 

 grey tomentum and white pubescence. Scutellum reddish with 

 grey tomentum and black hairs, white hairs on borders. 

 Abdomen dark reddish brown, usually redder on the anterior 



