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irregular!}- shaped spot, perhaps in weU-preserved specimens the 

 forehead may prove to have no real callus, ocelligerous tubercle 

 small. Eyes hairy, not very thickly covered with pale yellowish 

 hairs, with three cross-bands. Thorax black, covered with grey 

 tomentum and with pale yellow hairs, shoulders with long black 

 hairs, breast blackish with grey tomentum and yellowish pubescence. 

 Scutclluni same as thorax. Abdomen brownish black, appearing red- 

 dish yellow on sides of second segment, the whole dorsum almost 

 wholly covered with short golden yellow pubescence, and the sides 

 with identical pubescence ; under side blackish almost devoid of hairs 

 but with yellowish grey tomentum. Legs blackish, the femora 

 with chiefly yellow pubescence, the fore tibiae except at apices, 

 and the others wholly, reddish 3-ellow, with black pubescence, but 

 some yellow hairs intermixed, fore tarsi brownish, the others red- 

 dish yellow. Wings hyaline, shaded brown on transverse and 

 longitudinal \'eins, stigma and veins brownish, no appendix present. 



Tabanus (Therioplectes) albilateralis, $ , Macquart. 



Dipt, exot., i (i), p. 129, 17 (1838). [Tahamis.] 



Black. Eyes hairy. Thorax with sides and stripes white. 

 Abdomen with golden yellow dorsal spots and segmentations, the 

 two first segments testaceous at sides. Legs red. Length 5 lines, $. 



Palpi whitish yellow, elongated, pointed, the apex appearing 

 to form a separate joint. Face and forehead fawn coloured with 

 whitish tomentum, the latter wide, with a broad callus, brownish 

 yellow, posteriorly with three points. Antennae are wanting. E^res 

 pubescent. Thorax black, with long brown hairs and whitish 

 stripes ; above the wings is a longitudinal stripe of long white hairs 

 bordered above by ^^ellow hairs ; sides with long white hairs. Ab- 

 domen wide ; the first two segments testaceous with a dorsal trian- 

 gular spot ; the others black with dorsal triangular spots ; posterior 

 borders testaceous covered with golden hairs ; under side of a dirty 

 fawn colour. Legs ^^ellowish, anterior pair wanting. Halteres 

 3^ellowish. Squamae brownish. Wings slightly brownish, darker 

 at the base and on outer border, the first posterior cell a little 

 narrowed. From Java. Macquart, Dipt, exot., i (i), p. 129. 



Type in Paris Museum, distinguished from Therioplectes hirtus, 

 Wlk., with which I compared it by its broader forehead with a 

 broad yellowish callus, smaller size and yellow legs. A small species 

 with a black abdomen, reddish ^^ellow on the first two segments and 

 parth^ so on the third segment, median spots and segmentations 

 3^ellowish haired ; under side pale yellowish white. Thorax with 

 3'ellowish white hairs at sides. Legs yellow. Wini!s tinged brown, 

 the first posterior cell much narrowed. 



