2i6 Records of the Indian Muscuvi. [Vol. IV, 



specimen, or is peculiar to it, is doubtful), tooth distinct but small, 

 Face appears yellowish with chiefly yellow pubescence. The 

 palpi the same colour. Length 15 mm. 



9 . vSimilar. Face with grey tomentum and white hairs, the 

 subcallus and forehead with similar tomentum. Palpi yellow, 

 stout at base, ending in a point. Forehead almost parallel, about 

 five times as long as it is broad. Frontal callus large, oblong, not 

 reaching the eyes, reddish brown with almost a spindle-shaped 

 extension. Antennae wholly yellow. Thorax with some white 

 hairs anteriorly and at the sides, otherwise the pubescence is black 

 on dorsum and on shoulders ; breast with grcA' tomentum and white 

 hairs. Abdomen in like manner has some white hairs on dorsum and 

 at sides, the pubescence otherwise black as in & . Legs blacker, 

 the fore tibiae at base obscurely yellow, the middle and posterior 

 tibiae yellowish. 



Tabanus bornicnsis, $ , Ricardo. 



Tabanus apicalis, 9 , Rondani, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, vii> 

 p. 459 (1875). Name preoccupied by a species from Brazil des- 

 cribed by Wiedemann in 1828. 



In Brit. Mus. coll. one female from Sarawak. (Purchased Stevens 



1857-) 



Length 12 mm. 9 . Body fulvous, with the apex of the 

 abdomen blackish. Antennae widely red. Palpi reddish. Forehead 

 between the e3^es dull brown, the lineal callus pitchy black, the 

 exterior part behind the antennae fulvous. Head before and below 

 pale grey yellowish and pale haired. Thorax with scutellum brown 

 reddish, pleurae and breast grey 3^ellowish. Abdomen with the 

 three basal segments above and below fulvous, the two following 

 especially at the base, streaked with black ; the two apical ones 

 black-brown and brown haired ; the preceding ones posteriorly 

 shortl}^ ciliated with pale yellow hairs. Wings subhyaline, the 

 costal border brown yellowish, towards the apex brownish. Legs : 

 the anterior pair dull piceous, the posterior ones yellowish red, all 

 the tarsi blackish brown. Calyptera blackish. Halteres red, the 

 club pale yellowish, its apex paler. Rondani, Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Genova, vii, p. 459. 



Type 9 seen by me in the Museum at Genoa. A small species 

 from Sarawak, with a pale yellow abdomen, apically darker. An- 

 tennae yellow with hardly any tooth. Legs yellowish. Wings 

 clear. Length 12 mm. 



Face yellowish grey with scattered white hairs. Palpi yellow 

 with black pubescence, slender. Antennae wholly 3^ellow with 

 yellow hairs on the first two joints. Forehead narrow, about eight 

 times as long as it is broad, and nearly two-thirds narrower anteriorly, 

 apparently dark coloured, with the frontal callus narrow not reaching 

 the eyes, brownish, the lineal extension short, some yellow hairs 

 on the vertex. Eyes bronze-coloured , spotted black. Thorax yellow- 

 ish somewhat shining, with grey tomentum, the scutellum yellowish, 

 shining. .4 6^owr;.' transparent yellow on the first three segments. 



