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



Tabanus yokoamensis, 9 , Bigot. 

 Mem, Soc. Zool. France, v, p. 678 (1892). 



Antennae black, base of the third segment reddish, this last 

 joint very concave above with a projecting tooth ; palpi very pale 

 yellow; face and beard white ; forehead grey, callus black, narrow, 

 pointed above, much enlarged below and nearl}' square, on the 

 vertex is a very indistinct tubercle and no ocelli ; thorax blackish 

 with three wide greyish indistinct stripes ; scutellum blackish ; 

 sides grey with grey hairs ; the two first segments of abdomen grey . 

 with a large blackish spot on each side . the others black narro wh* 

 bordered reddish, squamae whitish bordered with brown, halteres 

 yellow, the club brown with its apex whitish ; legs black, base of 

 tibiae widely whitish ; wings almost hyaline, stigma pale yellowish. 



Var. ? Abdomen black with a dorsal stripe formed of triangular 

 greyish spots, smaller in size. 



I place this species in the genus Tabanus {proprie dictus) but 

 with some doubts, owing to the verj- mediocre development of the 

 vertical tubercle. Length 14 or 17 mm. Yokohama, Japan, three 

 specimens, Bigot, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, v, p. 678 (i8q2). 



This type and species is unknowm to me. 



SPECIES OF TABANUS FROM PERSIA, TURKESTAN, 



AFGHANISTAN. BALUCHISTAN. ASIA MINOR 



AND SYRIA. 



The following is a list of the species with all synonyms from 

 the above localities in the Palaearctic Region, including three new- 

 species here described. Tabanus infuscatus,L,o&^= apricus, Mg., 

 Tabanus julvicornis = montanus, Mg., var, , and Tabanus broniius, L. , 

 are given on the authority of Bigot who inserts them in a Cata- 

 logue of species of Tabanus from N. Persia and Caucasus, in Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. France (5), x, p. 140 (1880). 



Tabanus abazus, $ , Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France (5), x, 

 p, 146 (1880), was described from two specimens as black, with some 

 greyish reflections. E^'es hairy. Antennae black. Frontal callus 

 cordiform with linear extension. Abdomen with segmentations 

 narrowly white and three series small indistinct grey spots. Legs 

 black, tibiae pale testaceous. ? Persia, Caucasus. 



Tabanus niveipalpis, 9 , Bigot, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, v, p. 645 

 (1892) [Atylotus], described from one specimen from ? Persia. Eyes 

 naked. Abdomen blackish with the segmentations narrowly yellow- 

 ish, and a large oval spot on the sides of second and third segment 

 reddish yellow. Legs blackish, anterior tibiae whitish, the apices 

 black, the other tibiae testaceous white. Wings hyaline. Length 

 12 mm. Bigot used this name later for a species from the Cape of 

 Good Hope which is however a synonym of Tabanus albilinea, Wlk. 



Tabanus canipalpis, Bigot, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, v, p. 649 

 (1892) [Atylotus], from Persia was described from one specimen. 

 Abdomen black with yellowish segmentations and red on the first 

 two segments. Length ii mm. 



