rgii.] G. RiCARDO : Revision of the species of Tahsums. 21 r 



the apex, and legs, and b}- the long narrow palpi only slightly 

 stouter at the base with a long obtuse point. Forehead almost 

 parallel but anteriorly a little broader, about six times as long as it 

 is broad, the frontal callus large, oblong, not reaching the eyes, 

 yellow, shining, witli a long lineal extension. Breast only black 

 below legs, is probably reddish in fresh specimens and the same 

 may be said of the thorax. Abdomen with short black pubescence 

 on the dorsum. Legs with some white pubescence on the fore 

 coxae and on the femora, otherwise black. Wings with all the veins 

 tinged with a l)r()wn border, veins and stigma yellow. T.ength 

 18 mm. 



Tabanus joidus. 9 , Bigot. 



Mem. Soc. Zool. France, v, p. 657 (1892). [Atylo[iis.\ 



Type $ from India and another female from vSibsagar. Assam, 

 this is the second specimen included in the original description. 



In Indian Museum coll. females with no locality specified, 

 with the exception of one labelled Sibsagar : two have MS. names in 

 Bigot's handwriting. 



A narrow-bodied species with a reddish l)rown abdomen and a 

 darker apex, sometimes the third and fourth segments are darker. 

 Wings deeply tinged yellowish brown ^ paler on posterior border. 

 Legs black, tibiae white. Forehead narrow with an oblong narrow 

 callus. Antennae slender, reddish. Length of type lyh mm., others 

 from 16 — 20 mm. 



Face reddish brown with brownish yellow foment am, pubes- 

 cence appears brownish. Beard brown or yellowish brown. Palpi 

 yellow with thick black pubescence, stout ending in a j^oint. 

 Antennae pale red, the first two joints yellowish red with black 

 pubescence, the third joint longer, slender, not very wide at base, 

 with a distinct but small tooth. Forehead about six times as long 

 as it is broad, and a third narrower anteriorly, covered with brown- 

 ish yellow tomentum and some black pubescence, the frontal callus 

 yellowish brown, narrow, oblong, furrowed in the middle, not 

 reaching the eyes, with a lineal extension. Thorax brown with 

 some short yellow or reddish yellow pubescence and greyish yellow 

 tomentum, shoulders with long brownish hairs ; breast co\-ered with 

 greyish yellow tomentum and with yellow hairs ; scutellujn same as 

 thorax. Abdomen long and narrow, reddish brown, the last three 

 segments in type black, segmentations fringed with golden yellow 

 hairs, on the black part they only appear in the middle, pubescence 

 on apex, and elsewhere black, but in one specimen it is almost 

 entirely golden yellow on the ante ior segments, on one specimen 

 the blackish colour extends on to the third and fourth segments ; 

 under side reddish brown with black bands commencing from the 

 second segment and lighter segmentations, the extreme apex 

 wholly black, pubescence black. Legs l)lackish, the coxae covered 

 with greyish yellow tomentum, the fore ])air with long vellow 

 hairs at base, and at apex with .shorter black ones, femora with 

 black pubescence, the fore tibiae ])ale yellowish on tlieir basal half 



