i82 Records of the Indicoi Museum. [Voi.. IV, 



A red-brown species easily distinguished by the prominent 

 whitish tomentose triangular spots on the third and fourth abdo- 

 minal segments, and with the same coloured spots on the lateral 

 borders of the first four segments. Wings clear. Legs blackish. 

 Tibiae reddish. Length 21 mm. 



Head large. Eyes with the large facets distinct, reaching the 

 apex of frontal triangle, and the vertex, the small facets extending 

 behind as a narrow border but not reaching the vertex apparently 

 (eyes discoloured). Face covered with grey tomentum and with 

 white hairs. Palpi yellow with black hairs. Beard white. 

 Antennae incomplete, Walker does not describe them ; the first two 

 joints reddish with black hairs. Thorax reddish brown with three 

 grey stripes, sides with black hairs. Scutellum reddish brown. 

 Abdomen conical, reddish brown, becoming darker towards the 

 apex, the two triangular median spots have very short apices, and 

 broad bases, the spots o'.i lateral borders do not join them, a small 

 whitish tomentose median spot is visible on the second segment at 

 its base, pubescence black, but white on the spots ; under side the 

 same but with no median spots visible. Legs (incomplete) blackish 

 with black pubescence, the tibiae reddish. Wings yellow on costal 

 border, stigma yellow, veins yellowish brown, appendix present. 



The species first named by Walker Tabanus apicalis, List 

 Dipt., i, p. 176, and later changed by him to Tabanus finalis (the 

 first name being preoccupied), List Dipt., v, p. 258, is allied to this 

 species, and is also a male, but differs in having three large white 

 spots on the third, fourth and fifth segments and the cross-veins of 

 wings are shaded ; it is a badly preserved specimen from unknown 

 locality; it may possibly belong to the American fauna. 



Tabanus significants, 9 , n. sp. 



Type $ and another female from Kuala Lumpur, Federated 

 Malay States (H. C. Pratt), in London School Tropical Medicine 

 coll. and another female from Darien Tipus, Malay States, in 

 Stanton coll. 



This well-marked species alhed to Tabanus signifer, Walker, 

 from China, is distinguished by the two well-marked grey tomen- 

 tose median spots on the brown abdomen, by the white tibiae and 

 wings slightly shaded on the cross-veins. Antennae red, forehead 

 narrow. Length 18 mm. 



Face covered with whitish tomentum and with long white 

 hairs, a band across the base of antennae and the subcallus on its 

 outer borders with yellowish brown tomentum, between the 

 antennae and the eyes the band bears some long brown hairs ; 

 centre of subcallus covered with greyish tomentum. Beard white. 

 Palpi pale yellow with black pubescence, stout, ending in a point. 

 Antennae red, the first two joints paler and yellowish with black 

 pubescence, the third joint broad but with a very slight tooth 

 indeed. Forehead very narrow, about ten times as long as it is 



