igii.j O. RiCARDO : Revision of the species of Tabanni^. 255 



the third black, towards the base widely red, above concave but 

 hardly at all excised. Palpi short, thick, white, and white haired. 

 Abdomen cinereous, white spotted. 



Legs black, femora greyish, knees and tibiae exce])t the a])ices 

 pale yellowish. \A''ings white, hyaline, veins however pale bro\vn, 

 auxiliary wholly and others towards base of wing dull yellowish 

 with appendix. Ivength 5. 1 lines, wings 4|- lines. Loew, Zeitschr., 

 etc., p. 414. 



This species is not known to me. 



Tabanus spectabilis, 9 , Loew. 



Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, viii, p. 605, 34 (1858). 



Tabanus ispahanicus, cT»,Rondani, Ann. ]\fus. Civ. Genova, 

 i, p. 300, 8 (1873) [aspahanicus]. 



Rondani's type was not labelled, but owing to its striking 

 appearance, I had no diflficulty in recognising the one male specimen 

 from N. Persia described by Rondani, and have no doubt it is the 

 male of Tabanus spectabilis, recorded from Europe and Brussa 

 in Asia Minor. The type 2 came from Servia. There are two 

 females of this species in the Brit. Mus. coll. from Bulgaria. 



