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described under any other name among the Palaearctic species to 

 which Region it belongs. 



A species easily recognised by the broad black stripe on the 

 red abdomen, with the thorax black, the wings clear, the antennae 

 black, the legs black, the tibiae reddish yellow. 



Length t3-pe 14 mm. 



Face covered with grey tomentum and with white pubescence. 

 Beard white. Palpi pale yellow, almost devoid of pubescence, 

 with only a little short white pubescence, and an occasional black 

 hair, large, ending in a fairlv long apex. Antennae wholly black. 

 Forehead of medium breadth, narrower anteriorly, about live times 

 as long as it is wide at its narrowest point, covered with grey tomen- 

 tum and with a few white hairs at vertex. Frontal callus blackish 

 brown, square, reaching the eyes, at a short distance beyond it 

 appears a spindle-shaped callus in the middle of forehead, united 

 posteriori}" to a broader irregular shaped callus on the vertex. 

 Eyes with cross-bands. Thorax with grey tomentum, stripes hardly 

 distinct, shoulders reddish, pubescence on dorsum consists of black 

 hairs with some scattered pale yellowish hairs intermixed. 



Abdomen: the black stripe almost entirely covers the first seg- 

 ment, on the next three segments it is about a third of the width 

 of abdomen, and on the remaining segments almost entirely covers 

 them, leaving only their sides and narrow segmentations red ; 

 underside reddish, the stripe not so well marked, the pubescence on 

 dorsum black with some yellow hairs, and grey tomentum on the 

 red parts. Legs black, the knees of femora and the tibiae pale yellow 

 or reddish yellow, the apices of fore tibiae black. Wings clear, veins 

 and stigma yellowish brown, the first posterior cell slightly narrowed 

 at its opening. 



Tabanus miyajima, c^ o . n. sp. 



Type (male) from Japan (Miss Pascoe's coll.), 1896. Co-types, 

 four females from Tokio, 1909, and Japan sent b}^ Dr. Miyajima 

 in a small collection of Japanese Diptera to the British Museum; 

 unfortunately the collection was much damaged by the journey, but 

 these females are sufficiently well preserved and of such a striking, 

 easily distinguished appearance, as to justify their description as 

 a new species. 



$ . A black species, the abdomen with whitish-haired bands, 

 most prominent on the fourth and fifth segments where they are 

 produced in the middle as triangular spots; scutellum grey. Legs 

 black, the tibiae largeh' yellowish white. Wings with all posterior 

 cells widely open. Frontal callus club-shaped with stout linear 

 extension. Length of male 18 mm., of females 18-19 mm. 



The species has a general resemblance to Tabanus signlficaiis, 

 n. sp., of the Oriental Region. 



Face covered with greyish tomentum and with some silvery 

 white pubescence, the sides of cheeks and the subcallus and centre 

 of face immediately round base of antennae covered with yellowish 

 brown tomentum, the hairs on sides of cheeks short, brown. Beard 



