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with obtuse apex, almost the same width throughout, 3'ellowish 

 red but densely clothed with black pubescence. Antennae reddish 

 brown, the first two joints with black pubescence, tooth of third 

 joint distinct. Forehead narrow, covered with yellowish brown 

 tomentum, nearly eight times as long as it is broad, barely half as 

 wide anteriorly as it is at vertex; frontal callus brownish, long, 

 narrow, not reaching the e3^es with a rather long linear extension. 

 Thorax reddish brown or blackish with stripes hardly apparent , 

 some greyish yellow tomentum on dorsum, the pubescence black, 

 with some short appressed 3-ellowish hairs, shoulders more red, sides 

 with black hairs ; breast covered with gre}^ tomentum and with 

 3'ellowish hairs. Scufelkim identical with thorax. Abdomen red- 

 dish brown, often more yello^^-red anteriorly and darker at apex, 

 spots usually present on each segment but often indistinct and 

 indicated by a few yellow hairs only, usually small with short 

 triangles; under side reddish brown, the segmentations bordered 

 with yellowish hairs ; sides of abdomen with black hairs and a few 

 yellow hairs below or, with almost wholly yellow hairs. Legs : 

 femora black covered with grey tomentum below, the pubescence 

 black and short above, yellow and longer below, coxae black covererl 

 with grey tomentum and with thick whitish pubescence on the fore 

 pair, the pubescence on the dark red tibiae black and rather thick, 

 some yellow or white hairs on the fore tibiae at base which alone 

 is reddish. Wings in type very distinctly tinged brown on all the 

 veins, but this is fainter in man}" specimens and sometimes almost 

 confined to fore border ; veins brown, stigma yellow. 



cf . The male t3'pe has now lost part of abdomen, but other 

 males in the Brit. Mus. coll. from Singapore and vSumatra appear 

 identical. 



Beard and hairs on face in type brownish, in the other males 

 whitish. The palpi j^ellowish red, with black pubescence. The 

 frontal triangle reddish brown. E3^es with large facets on the 

 upper part, not extending beyond the apex of the frontal triangle, 

 reaching the vertex but gradually sloping away from it towards 

 the centre of eye. Abdomen on its anterior half 3^ellowish red, the 

 apex darker, the sides bordered with a short fringe of black hairs, 

 but on the posterior lateral angles of the segments are some yellow 

 hairs ; under side reddish brown with yellow-haired segmentations. 

 Wings in type deeply tinged yellowish brown, in other males 

 yellow on fore border only, between the costal border and the 

 first vein. 



Tabanus malayensis, 2 , n. sp. 



In Brit. Mus. coll. type 9 and a long series from Darien 

 Tip us, Negui Sembilan, Federated Malay vStates, collected by Dr. 

 A. T. Stanton on a new road running through jungle in Februar3- 

 and March, 1908, and others in 1909 by him at Batu Tiga, others 

 from Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Federated Malay States (Durham), 

 and from Singapore (Ridley). 



