204 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voiv. IV, 



Face and subcallus covered with yellowish brown tomentum, the 

 former with rather long blackish brownish hairs in the middle and 

 on the cheeks. Beard blackish brown. Palpi appearing black 

 by reason of their very close black pubescence on yellowish brown 

 tomentum , the insides yellowish, stout, ending in a point. A ntennac 

 reddish yellow, the first two joints with black pubescence, the 

 third with the apex in the other specimen blackish, in the type 

 partly broken off, the tooth at base acute, distinct. Forehead 

 about eight times as long as it is broad, and a third narrower 

 anteriorly, frontal callus dark brown, club-shaped, not reaching 

 eyes, with a lineal extension. Thorax (damaged) covered when 

 fresh probably with the same plum-coloured tomentum as abdo- 

 men, in the type it is discoloured, in the other blackish; shoulders 

 reddish, sides with black hairs. Scutelluni same colour as abdomen 

 which is an obscure reddish brown, covered with greyish blue or 

 plum-coloured tomentum, pubescence apparently black, under 

 side the same. Legs blackish, the tibiae in type dull reddish, in 

 the other female black, pubescence entirely black. Wings brown, 

 upper half of submarginal cell clearer and posterior border, in 

 the other female many of the cells have clear middles or streaks. 



Tabanus perakiensis, 9 , n. sp. 



Type 2 from Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay vStates, vStan- 

 ton coll., 1909, and another female from Perak (Pratt), London 

 School Tropical Medicine coll. 



A black species nearly allied to Tabanus inobservatus, a new 

 species from Sumatra, but distinct from it, having the face paler, 

 the beard largely white, the antennae reddish yellow, the palpi 

 paler, yellowish inside and on the outside yellowish but covered 

 with grev tomentum, and the black pubescence is thick. Tibiae 

 dull reddish. Length 15 mm. 



Face covered with gre^^ tomentum and with some .short black 

 hairs. Beard whitish with some black hairs. Palpi obscurely 

 yellow, with some grey tomentum and with black pubescence, 

 slender, a little stouter at base, ending in a point, base of first 

 joint with long black hairs. Antennae reddish yellow, darker at 

 apex, the first two joints paler with black pubescence, the tooth 

 of third joint very small. Frontal triangle covered with reddish 

 brown tomentum. Forehead narrow, a little greyer, with some 

 black hairs, about eight times as long as it is broad and quite a 

 third narrower anteriorly, the frontal callus reddish brown, long 

 and narrow, not reaching the eyes, with a lineal prolongation. 

 Eyes apparently with two or more cross-bands. Thorax brownish 

 black, with some greyish tomentum and traces of appressed 

 pale hairs, pubescence black, scutellum same as thorax. Abdo- 

 men narrow, blackish or brownish black, with close-lying black 

 pubescence, sides with black hairs ; under side black with grey 

 tomentum and white-haired segmentations. Legs blackish, the 

 femora with grey tomentum. the fore tibiae on basal half and 



