174 Records of the Indian Museum. [Yoh. 1\\ 



the same colour as the face; frontal callus oblong, brownish, not 

 reaching the eyes, the linear extension narrow. Thorax obscurely 

 reddish brown, sometimes blackish, stripes indistinct, covered with 

 some yellowish brown tomentum and a few hairs of the same colour 

 and with scattered black pubescence, sides redder with black hairs ; 

 breast black with grey tomentum and obscure yellow pubescence. 

 Abdomen reddish j-ellow, the last three segments shghtly darker, 

 the small triangular grey tomentose spots with 3'ellowish pubes- 

 cence are present from the first to the fifth, sometimes reaching 

 the sixth segment, most conspicuous on the third, fourth and fifth ; 

 the dorsum with rather dense but inconspicuous black pubescence ; 

 under side with lighter segmentations, and yellowish white pubes- 

 cence. Legs : femora reddish brown with grey tomentum below 

 and with yellowish pubescence, tibiae reddish yellow, the fore pair 

 darker at apex with yellowish hairs on the paler part, the tarsi 

 reddish brown with black pubescence. Wings grey, tinged with 

 brown on fore border and round veins, veins yellowish brown, an 

 appendix is present onlv in the Bigot tvpe and in a female from 

 Khasi Hills. 



The male type (Macquart) has no sign of median grey spots 

 on abdomen, and may possibl}^ prove not to belong to this species, 

 which seems otherwise confined to India and Assam. 



Tabanus stantoni, $ , n. sp. 

 (PI. xiv, fig. 13.) 



In Brit, Mus. coll. a long series from Batu Tisa, Labuan 

 Padang, Federated Malay States (Pratt, Stanton), others from 

 Selangor, and Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States. 



A large reddish yellow broad-bodied species, distinguished 

 from Tabanus fumifer, Wlk., by the greater width of the forehead, 

 anteriorly never more than one-third narrower than it is at vertex, 

 in T. fumifer the forehead begins to get narrower half-way from 

 the vertex, in this species it is hardly perceptibly narrower and 

 only begins to be so just before it terminates. Thorax has a 

 paler appearance. Abdomen more reddish yellow. Length 

 19^ — 25 mm. 



Face with yellowish hairs. Palpi yellow with black pubes- 

 cence, not very stout at base, ending in an acute point. Forehead 

 eight to nine times as long as it is broad and barely a third 

 narrower anteriorly, nearly parallel, frontal callus long and 

 narrow, not touching the eyes, slightly club-shaped. Antennae 

 reddish, with the third joint black. Thorax brownish with in- 

 distinct stripes, covered with brownish yellow tomentum, 

 appressed fulvous hairs and some black pubescence. Abdomen 

 appearing reddish brown, more strictly reddish yellow, but the 

 close black pubescence gives it the darker appearance and with 

 some brownish yellow tomentum makes it appear not uniform in 

 colour, the median spots often indistinct, are 3^ellow haired, short, 



