248 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi.. IV; 



Tabanus adjacens, 5 , n. sp 



I'ive females. Co-types from Perso-Baluchistan Frontier in 

 Indian Museum coll. 



A small species with reddish yellow or yellow abdomen and a 

 large broad black median stripe^ yellowish legs and antennae. 

 I'orehead with two small callosities. Length 8| — 10 mm. 



Face brown covered with gre}' tomentum. Beard ver}- scanty, 

 white. Palpi whitish, large and nearly the same width throughout. 

 Antennae yellow, the third joint with little more than an angle, 

 broad at base. Forehead parallel, about three and a half times as 

 long as it is broad, the frontal callus small, heart-shaped, not reaching 

 the eyes, the median one about the same size, irregular in shape, 

 both reddish brown. Forehead and subcallus same colour as face. 

 Thorax shining black, no trace of stripes, but with thick grey 

 tomentum on the anterior border, and on sides which are yellowish. 

 Breast blackish covered with grey tomentum. Scutelluni black. 

 Abdomen bare, shining, reddish yellow, the broad black median 

 stripe with irregular lateral borders, frequently extending on the 

 posterior borders of segments to the sides of abdomen as narrow 

 segmentations, and on the last three segments occupying their 

 whole surface with the exception of the sides ; under side 3^ellowdsh. 

 Legs yellowish, the fore tibiae at apices, and fore tarsi brown. Wings 

 very hyaline, the veins brown, yellow on the fore border and at 

 base, with a long appendix, the stigma yellow. None of the speci- 

 mens are in good condition and are probably denuded. 



Tabanus cyprianus, 9 , n. s]). 



Tj-pe 2 from Kelopside, C^'prus (Dr. G. A. Williamson), and 

 two females from Seistan, Persia (A. vS. Leese); these last in the 

 Howlett coll., with label " from horse, very common." 



This species Atylotus-XikQ in the shape of head, though no hairs 

 are visible on e3-es with a lens, does not appear to have been des- 

 cribed before, though it ma}- be related to Tabanus agricola, Wied. ; 

 it is related to the group containing Atvlotus ditacniatus, fitlvus, 

 rusticus, latistriatus and fuscipes. 



Seistan is a province in Eastern Persia bordering Afghanistan, 

 so that the species presumably has a wide range. 



A small 3-ellowish grey species with clear wings, >-ellow legs and 

 antennae, broad forehead with two small callosities, abdomen yellow- 

 ish at base and on segmentations, covered with grey tomentum and 

 wdth four series small black spots. Length 12-13 mm. 



Face covered with greyish white tomentum and with white 

 pubescence. Beard white. Palpi ^^ellowish white with white pubes- 

 cence, almost straight, not so curved as usual, stouter at base 

 ending in a point. Antennae pale ^'-ellow, the third joint more 

 reddish yellow, the first tw^o joints with chiefly white hairs, but a 

 few black ones are visible, first joint small, not cap-shaped, second 

 very small, third with hardly any tooth but only an angle, broad at 



