19 1 1.1 G. RiCARDO : Revision of the species of Tabanus. 187 



Head gre^-ish white ; face of the cf ochraceous ; on the front of 

 the 9 a raised line , which is broader below. Antennae and palpi 

 reddish yellow; third joint of the antennae on the upper part 

 with a rather sharp tooth, slender towards the end, the tip brown. 

 Palpi in the female as long as the rostrum, in the male much 

 shorter. Eyes bare, bronze-coloured, even after having been 

 moistened without cross-bands ; in the male the facets of the upper 

 portion large. Thorax and scutellum greyish black, with hardly 

 any indication of longitudinal bands; pleurae cinereous with a 

 yeilow pile. Abdomen in the male pointed, in the female a little 

 narrower towards the end, in both sexes reddish yellow; the first 

 segment blackish below the margin of the scutellum, on the second 

 and third segments a dark grey dorsal spot ; the following segments 

 fuscous, with pale reddish yellow hind margin; under surface of 

 abdomen testaceous, with yellow hind margins of the segments. 

 Legs reddish yellow ; the tarsi a little darker ; front coxae with 

 a long pale yellow pile; hind tibiae in the male fringed with short 

 hairs, the hairs of the outside black. Wings with a reddish grey 

 tinge ; the upper branch of the furcated cell angular at its base 

 and with a recurrent vein. A single pair from Ningpo (near 

 Shanghai) presented to Ley den Museum by Dr. Felder. V. d. 

 Wulp, Notes Leyden Museum, vii, p. 78. 



Tahanus hucolicus was described by Schiner from one male 

 specimen taken at Hongkong, and from the description and the 

 comparison of one male specimen in the Brit. Mus. coll. with no 

 locality specified, it is possible that Wulp and Schiner described 

 the same species, but as there are no females in any of the col- 

 lections, the matter must be left doubtful for the present. I ap- 

 l)end all that Schiner says regarding his species. 



" Is exactly the same as Tahanus inter medius, Egger, which, 

 as the name T. intermedius was used earlier by Walker for a 

 North American species, I sh^U in future name Tahanus eggeri. 

 [Brauer however retains the original name as he says Walker's 

 species is doubtful ; Kertesz in his last Cat. 1906 follows Schiner.] 

 It will suffice to give the differences. The middle of the face in 

 Tabanus hucolicus as well as the frontal triangle are snow-white, 

 the remainder bright yellow, the beard is golden yellow, the legs 

 are entirely bright reddish yellow, the tarsi hardly a little darker. 

 In all other respects similar to Tabanus eggeri. ii lines." 



Brauer remarks at the end of his description of Tabanus inter- 

 medins that Tahanus hucolicus has much larger facets of the eye 

 ( & ) and these extend above to the ocelligerous tubercle, and thence 

 almost entirely" to hind 1)order. 



Tabanus Icucosparsus, 9 , Bigot. 

 Nouv. Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris (3), ii, p. 203 (1890). 

 Length 18 mm. 



Antennae incomplete, the fnst two joints brown ; palpi, beard, 

 face and forehead whitish grey, frontal callus and tul)cMcle of 



