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with a small tooth and at the apex darkened (see plate). Abdomen 

 black ; the borders of the thorax and the posterior border of the 

 scutellum with pale pubescence : on the fore breast and the fore 

 coxae a very long dirt}^ white pubescence ; breast sides with ashy 

 grey tomentum ; the first four segments of abdomen with a rusty 

 coloured stripe on each side, which is broadest at the base, but 

 posteriorly narrower, a pale pubescence is visible on them; on the 

 dorsum are some traces of reddish segmentation ; on the under side 

 the}' are distinct and light grey. Legs black-brown, somewhat 

 shining; the femora by their pubescence greyish. Halteres brown. 

 Wings with a grey-brown tinge, darkest on the fore border; 

 stigma dark brown; veins black-brown, neuration normal. V. d. 

 Wulp, Sumatra Exped. Dipt., p. 17. 

 This species is unknown to me. 



Tabanus jucundus, d" 5 , Walker. 

 (PI. xiii, fig. 10.; 



List Dipt., i, p. 187 (1848). 



Type (f and another specimen with no head, from Hongkong; 

 male and female from Pundaluo5^a, Ceylon (Green); females from 

 Kohat, Punjab, and India; all in Brit. Mus. coll. 



In Howlett coll. females from Igatpuri, W. Ghats, Bombay 

 Presidency; from Mussoorie, N. India, about 7,000 ft. high. 



Walker described the male onl3^ 



A well-marked small black species with two very distinct 

 lateral grey stripes on the thorax and with a grey median stripe 

 on the abdomen, starting from the third segment and continued to 

 the sixth segment, two lateral stripes commence on the first seg- 

 ment but terminate abruptly on the second segment. Wings clear. 

 Legs reddish yellow. Antennae red. The large protuberant 

 frontal callus with the short linear extension distinguishes this 

 species. It differs iror^ Tabanus hilar is, Wlk., by the presence of 

 the lateral stripes confined to the first two segments, by the more 

 distinctly striped thorax, and by the shorter linear extension of 

 the frontal callus which is darker and larger, and by the narrower 

 forehead anteriorly. 



Length males 13 mm., females lo-ii mm. 



5 . Face covered with whitish tomentum and with white 

 pubescence. Beard white. Palpi stout, ending in a short apex, 

 pale 3^ellow in colour covered with white hairs, a few black hairs 

 are also visible. Antennae: the first joint pale with white pubes- 

 cence, black at the upper edge, the second very small, pale red, the 

 third red with very obtuse tooth, apex reddish brown. Forehead 

 broad, narrower anteriorh', about four times as long as it is broad 

 at narrowest end, covered with greyish tomentum and with some 

 patches of black pubescence ; the frontal callus is large, almost 

 square, entirely filling up the space between e^^es, tuberculous, 

 rising above the plane of the head, dark blackish brown, shining 



