1 9 II.] G. RiCARDO : Revision of the species of Tabanus. 219 



Abdomen reddish brown with bright reddish yellow short pubes- 

 cence, always present on segmentations and in type and well-pre- 

 served specimens on the whole dorsum, black hairs intermixed, 

 all pubescence is short but thick; under side the same but with 

 paler segmentations, the black pubescence predominates. Lees 

 reddish yellow, the coxae and femora reddish brown, on the middle 

 and posterior pairs however this colour appears only in streaks, 

 the fore coxae with grey tomentum and whitish hairs, the femora 

 with short black pubescence, some yellow hairs intermixed at 

 knees, and on outer border of the middle femora, in the tibiae it is 

 black, largely ^^ellow at the base, on the tarsi it is black. Wings 

 clear, distinctly tinged \^ellow on the costal border, and more 

 faintly so on the fore border, stigma yellow, veins yellow, a pale 

 white streak is visible below the stigma. 



Tabanus subhirtus, 9 , Ricardo. 



Tabanus cinerascens, 2 , Bigot, Mem. vSoc. Zool. France, 

 V, p. 669 (1892). [Atylotus.] {Nomen bis ledum.) The name is 

 preoccupied by a species from Australia named by King in 1827. 



Type 9 from Java. 



In Howlett coll. females from Belgatchia, Bengal, and from 

 Bombay. 



A small olive-coloured or reddish brown species, the abdomen 

 appearing dusky with yellowish brown tomentum and black and 

 white pubescence, the thorax olive-brown with white hairs inter- 

 mixed with the black pubescence. Antennae light red, palpi pale 

 3'ellow with black and white pubescence, slender. Legs pale reddish 

 yellow. Wings clear. Length 12 mm. 



Face covered with whitish grey tomentum and with white 

 pubescence. Beard white. Palpi with a long pointed apex Fore- 

 head covered with yellowish brown tomentum and with black 

 pubescence, narrow, anteriorly one-third narrower than at vertex, 

 about seven times as long as it is wide, frontal callus yellowish brown 

 long not reaching eyes, extended as a fine line beyond the middle 

 of the forehead. Antennae long and slender, the first two joints 

 with grey tomentum and some black hairs, the apex of third joint 

 dark brown. Thorax: shoulders red with black hairs, white hairs 

 round base of wings, breast covered with whitish grey tomentum 

 and with white hairs. Scutellum same as thorax. Abdomen : seg- 

 mentations very narrowly pale yellow, the apex appears darker, 

 dorsum sprinkled with white hairs ; under side ashy grey with short 

 white i^ubescence. Legs almost unicolorous, the femora and tarsi a 

 little browner, pubescence black, on femora some white tomentum 

 and on tibiae some few yellow hairs. IF?//i^,s clear, veins vellowish 

 and brown, stigma yellow. 



The specimens from Bengal have the abdomen rather redder 

 in colour, and the very short white hairs are yellowish in colour 

 and not so numerous. 



