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with black pubescence, long and narrow like the Bigot species; 

 under side yellowish with a black median stripe, being dense!}- 

 covered with yellowish pubescence. Legs as in Bigot species but 

 more largely yellow as specified above. 



Wings tinged dark brown, on the fore ])order not reaching the 

 apex and extending almost as a band across the wing to posterior 

 border, becoming smoky brown in colour, costal border yellow, 

 stigma dark brown, veins brown. 



Tabanus tinctothorax^ 2 , n. sp. 



Type $ and another female from Malay States, the type from 

 Bukit Katu, vSelangor, 3,500 ft. (Robinson), and the other from 

 Kinta Valley, S. Perak, vSept.-Oct. (Ridley). 



A blackish species with the thorax and scutellum reddish 

 brown, covered with appressed red pubescence, under side of abdo- 

 men with white-haired segmentations. Wings pale brown, yellow- 

 ish on fore border and at base. Length 20 mm. 



Face black, with brownish tomentum, pubescence in middle of 

 face brownish, on cheeks thick, black. Beard black. Palpi dull 

 reddish, appearing black by reason of the thick black pubescence. 

 Antennae dull black, the first two with thick black pubescence, the 

 third long, the last four divisions short, not a third of the length of 

 the whole joint, which is broad at base with a short tooth. Sub- 

 callus covered with yellowish brown tomentum. Forehead a little 

 darker with some black pubescence, about nine times as long as 

 it is broad, almost half as narrow again at the vertex: frontal 

 callus narrow, long, with a not very long linear extension, reddish 

 brown, shining, furrowed in the type only. The thorax and scutel- 

 lum give the insect a distinctive appearance, some black hairs inter- 

 mixed with the appressed red pubescence, sides of thorax with long 

 black hairs; breast blackish brown with black pubescence. Abdo- 

 men oval, blackish brown with close black pubescence, in the 

 middle of the first segment some hairs similar to those on the 

 scutellum; under side similar, but with narrow white-haired segmen- 

 tations on the second , third and fourth segments. 



Legs black with black pubescence, femora and tibiae with some 

 yellowish brown tomentum, hind tarsi with red hairs below. 

 Wings with costal border, extreme base and stigma yellow, on 

 apical half and posterior border as far as anal cell tinged pale 

 brown, the basal and anal cell and axillar}- angle almost clear, veins 

 yellow, brown on apical half. Squamae pale brown. Halteres 

 yellow. 



Tabanus nigrotectus, 9 , Bigot. 



Nouv. Archives Mus. Hist. Nat. de Paris (3), ii, p. 204(1890). 

 [Bellardia.] 



Length 20 mm. 



Antennae (incomplete) with first two joints reddish; face and 

 forehead of a reddish grey ; frontal callus and vertex black, the 



