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brown tonieiitum, frontal callus black, transverse, not reaching eyes , 

 the fore border near subcallus irregular, the median callus black, 

 smaller, irregularly heart-shaped, ocelligerous tubercle small, pubes- 

 cence of forehead black. Eyes hairy ; " green black, with central 

 bright green band edged each side with purple ' ' (from note by 

 collector), thus with two stripes, cf with large facets above. Thorax 

 black with grey tomentum and with black pubescence and some 

 appressed fulvous hairs ; at sides and base of wings with long white 

 ])ubescence. 5c w^e//w;;i black co-'-ered with gre^^ tomentum. Abdo- 

 men with white-haired bands on each segment, not produced in the 

 middle, under side with the white bands broader. Legs black, tibiae 

 yellowish white, black at apices, pubescence on coxae, under part of 

 femora, light parts of tibiae white, elsewhere black. Wings hyaline. 



Male identical, with the exception of the second and third 

 segments of the abdomen w^hich are yellowish red at the sides. 



The hairiness of eyes is not very apparent in the specimen from 

 N.-\^\ P. and the palpi are pale 3'ellow \A'ith black hairs. 



Tabanus (Therioplectes) hirtus, <r , \Valker. 



Ins. Saund., p. 52 (1850). [Tabanus.] 



Type male from India (coll. vSaunders), and another male from 

 India; females from Naini Tal, Himalayas (Lt.-Col. R. Moore); 

 near Muktesar, U. P., India (Capt. J. K. Holmes), and N.-W. Prov- 

 inces (C. Home), all in Brit. Mus. coll. 



In Indian Museum coll. females from Phagu, 0,000 ft., Simla 

 hills (Annandale). 



This species bears a superficial resemblance to Tabanus onentis , 

 Wlk., but is at once distinguished b}^ its hair}' e3xs. A robust 

 species with black abdomen largely reddish 3'ellow at the sides. 

 Forehead almost parallel with the frontal callus, broad continued 

 as a thick spindle-shaped line towards the vertex. Legs blackish. 

 Length of male t^q^e 15 mm., of females 16-17 ^^■ 



9 . Face and subcallus covered with greyish tomentum, the 

 latter hairy, with long yellowish hairs, beard the same colour 

 as hairs of face. Palpi dull reddish, covered at the base with long 

 yellow hairs, elsewhere with chiefly short black pubescence, stout, 

 ending in a short point. Antennae blackish, the first two joints with 

 black pubescence, the third joint with hardly a perceptible angle 

 in place of a tooth, broad at base. Eyes with three cross-bands, 

 densely pubescent. Forehead rather darker than face, clothed with 

 l^lackish pubescence, longer at vertex, almost parallel and barely 

 four times as long as it is broad, frontal callus black, shining, 

 triangular, broad at base almost reaching eyes, its apex continued 

 in a spindle-shaped line, ocelligerous tubercle present on vertex. 



Thorax blackish with three indistinct narrow greyish or yellow- 

 ish stripes broadly separated, pubescence of black long hairs with 

 fulvous short often appressed hairs intermixed, shoulders reddish 

 with long black hairs, tufts of white hairs above wings on sides, 



