240 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. IV, 



distribution over Europe and Asia, having previously 1)een recorded 

 from Asia ]\Iinor. 



Tabanus hirticeps, 2 , Loew. (Therioplectes.) 



Wien. Entom. Monatschr.^ ii, p. 105 (1858). 



From Japan. 



Ashy gre}'. Thorax wliite striped. Abdomen marked with 

 a double series of ashy greyish spots. Eyes hair3\ Antennae 

 black, the third joint brown, apex black. Forehead wide, the 

 lower callus duplicated, large, the middle one smaller, tuberculated, 

 the third w^art-like at the vertex, all black. Legs black, tibiae 

 brown. Wings ashy greyish, stigma and veins black brownish, no 

 appendix. Length of body 6 line^. Length of wing 5^ lines. 



Face white ashy gre}^, with white hairs. Palpi ashy greyish, 

 clothed with longer white and black hairs. Antennae curved, the 

 basal joints black, the first arched a little, the third joint brown, 

 at apex black, wide, above angulated, the angle obtuse. Fore- 

 head ver}'' wide, ash}' gre}' ; lower callus duplicated, the anterior 

 part wider and contiguous to antennae, upper part filling the whole 

 width of the forehead, middle callus smaller, remote from margin 

 of 63' es, less smooth, below tuberculated, vertical callus minute, 

 wart-like. Eyes hairy. Thorax and abdomen ver}' much denuded, 

 blackish, but with traces of whitish grey poUinose and ash}' gre}- 

 colouring, stripes of thorax whiter. Abdomen with double series 

 ashy grey spots, the median stripe of abdomen composed of hardh' 

 apparent triangular spots. Hairs of thorax white, mixed with 

 black at base of wings. Posterior margin of abdominal segments 

 dull white. IvCgs black, tibiae brown, toward apices blackish, 

 femora mostly white haired, tibiae black haired, the posterior ones 

 at base white haired, tarsi black haired. Halteres black. Wings 

 somewhat ashy grey, transverse veins ver}^ slightly shaded with 

 brown, stigma and veins dull brown, no appendix. Loew, Wien. 

 Entom. Monatschr., ii, p. 105. 



This species is not known to me. 



Tabanus humilis, 9 , Co([uillet. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxi, 311 (1898). 



Female from Japan, differs from Tabamts trigomis, as follows : 

 Head above antennae yellow and brightly polished, antennae 

 wholly reddish yellow, the tooth of the third joint very small, hairs 

 of the palpi mixed white and black, those of the occiput, lower side 

 of the head and on the pleurae, white. Scutellum noticeably 

 lighter gre}" than the mesonotum. Abdomen somewhat polished, 

 black, marked with grey as in trigomis, the median triangles ex- 

 tremely small on the last two segments ; venter black, light grey 

 pruinose. Extreme apices of the middle and hind tibiae brownish 

 black. Wings hyaline, stigma yellow, base of anterior branch 

 of the third longitudinal vein not appendiculate, first posterior cell 



