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base for its size. Forehead and subcallus same colour as face, the 

 former about four and a half times as long as it is broad, parallel, 

 the frontal callus small, square or oval, not reaching eyes, the median 

 one smaller, both shining, mahogany-brown, hind part of head with 

 white hairs, ])ubescence on forehead scanty, yellowish. K^'es with 

 no bands. 



Thorax, sciitelluni and abdo)iien blackish but covered with grey 

 tomentum appearing greyish, and clothed with short yellowish or 

 white pubescence, some black hairs on shoulders. Abdomen reddish 

 yellow on sides of first two segments, and segmentations the same 

 colour, hardly appearing so in the type, owing to the pubescence, 

 four round black dots appear on the fore border of each segment 

 except the last one ; under side a little paler with same pubescence, 

 the black spots not present. Legs pale reddish 3'ellow, apices 

 of fore tibiae and tarsi blackish brown, the other tarsi brownish, 

 pubescence on coxae and femora white, on tibiae mixed white and 

 black, and on tarsi black. Mings clear, veins brow^n, stigma pale 

 yellow, long a])])endix ])resent. 



Tabanus eggeri, Schiner. 



Reise Novara Dipt., 81 (1868). 



Tabanus intermedins, Egg., Verb. zool.-l)ot. Ges. W'ien, ix, 

 389 (1859); Brauer, Denkschr. Akad. Wien, xlii, 182, 42, pis. iii 

 and vi, fig. 42 (1880) ; Gobert, Mem. Soc. lyinn. Nord. France, 

 21, 6 (1881); Pandelle, Revue d'Entomol., ii, 202, 4 (1883). 



This species is as yet only recorded from vSouth Europe, Egypt 

 and Asia Elinor. 



Two females in .Mr. Howlett's coll. identified as this species 

 from Seistan, Persia, ' ' on horse, uncommon ' ' (A. S. Leese). 



The males have the first posterior cell open, not narrowed, 

 the females have it closed or very ccmsiderably narrowed , in these 

 specimens the latter is the case. 



Tabanus glaber, 9 , Bigot. 

 (PI. xiv, fig 23.) 

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



Type 2 from Afghanistan (in description India is given) in Jirit. 

 Mus. coll. Six females from Helmund, Afghanistan, [ndian Bound- 

 ary Commission (Aitchison), 1889, and another female lalicUed T. 

 glaber in Bigot's handwriting from Afghanistan, in Indian Museum 

 coll. These api)ear to have been the original series of sjiecimcns 

 from which Bigot made his type, all ha\-ing a small >ell()w-i)ai)ere(l 

 " attached to them. 



One 9 in Brit. Mus. coll. from Kashgai , \\. Turkestan (Lansdell), 

 1889, and two $ from Seistan, Persia, in Howlett coll.. " taken from 

 horse"; these are identical though the* frontal callus differs a little 

 from that of ty])e. This species does not ai)i)ear to have been 



