2o8 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol.. IV, 



partl}^, blackish. Head above and below white with white pubes- 

 cence; palpi pale with very short black hairs. Thorax and scutel- 

 lum subcoriaceous, with brown stripes; pleurae and breast greyish. 

 Abdomen dull brown, with a dorsal intermediate series of whitish 

 spots, but obsolete; the segmentations with short pale yellow hairs, 

 on the under side with more distinct white hairs. Wings palely 

 brownish, the veins bordered brown yellowish, the costal border 

 browner, the stigma ferruginous. Legs, the anterior femora black, 

 the anterior tibiae at the base widely reddish; posterior femora 

 pitchy black, the tibiae red, the anterior tarsi wholly black, the 

 posterior ones reddish at the base. Halteres reddish, with the 

 club pale subluteous. Rondani, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, vii, p. 456. 



T3^pe 9 seen in the Museum at Genoa. This large reddish 

 brown species, length 23 mm., from Sarawak, is nearly allied to 

 Tahanus sta7ttoni, n. sp., but is distinguished from it b}' the absence 

 of any median spots on the abdomen (the type is not in very 

 good condition, but does not appear much denuded) which appears 

 reddish brown, from the third segment onwards it is covered with 

 yellowish brown tomentum, and with some short yellow pubes- 

 cence, under side the same but with black pubescence. Thorax 

 reddish brown covered with the same tomentum , and some greyish 

 tomentum on the shoulders, the pubescence appears to have been 

 chiefly black, the scutellum reddish with tomentum yellowish 

 brown. Wings hyaline, tinged pale yellowish brown along all the 

 longitudinal veins, no appendix, veins yellow. Face with grey 

 tomentum and white hairs. Palpi pale yellow, long, slightly 

 stout at base, ending in an obtuse point. Forehead narrow and 

 about seven times as long as it is wide, and two- thirds narrower 

 anteriorly, the frontal callus pear-shaped with a rather short 

 linear extension. Antennae reddish, duskier at the tips, with a 

 prominent tooth, pubescence black on the first two joints. 



No specimens of this species are in any of the collections 

 mentioned in this paper. 



Tabanus leucohirtus, 2 , Ricardo. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), iii, p. 488 (1909). 



Type 9 and two other females from Kanara, Bombay, in 

 Howlett coll. 



A medium-sized dull reddish brown species, not unlike 

 Tahanus fumifer, Walker, in appearance, but distinguished from 

 it by the absence of spots on the abdomen and by the dark beard 

 and hairs on face. Wings tinged with brown. Legs blackish 

 brown, tibiae obscurely red. Length 20—22 mm. 



Face covered with grey tomentum, pubescence brown, but 

 some white hairs are visible on sides of face, beard is similar but 

 very scanty. Palpi dull reddish, thickly covered with black 

 hairs, large, stout ending in an obtuse point. vSubcallus, fore- 

 head and sides of cheeks covered with yellowish brown tomentum. 

 ^w^mwa^ bright reddish, the apex black, and the first two joints with 



