1 911.] G. RiCARDO : The Oriental Tabanidae. 329 



with grey ; the paired spots dark brown, large, reaching the eyes 

 and almost touching the callus ; the unpaired spot brown, small ; 

 forehead yellowish, with brown markings and grey tomentum and 

 short black pubescence. Antennae long, slender, yellow; the 

 third joint dusky, reddish at base, black at apex ; the first joint 

 as long as the part of the third joint which is unannulated, the 

 second joint small, both with black pubescence. Thorax hrown, 

 with grey shoulders and three narrow grey stripes ; short yellowish 

 pubescence is visible on the dorsum ; the sides brown with black 

 hairs, the breast grey. Abdomen a redder brown, with light nar- 

 row borders to the segments, darker at the apex ; the pubescence 

 on the light borders short and yellowish, on the other parts black ; 

 a hoarj^ grey median stripe is very distinct from the second to the 

 fifth segment ; the under side brown, grey at the sides. Legs red- 

 dish brown, the fore tibiae and tarsi darker brown, with black pu- 

 bescence, the base of all the tibiae whitish, on the middle tibiae the 

 white extends further ; the basal joint of the middle and posterior 

 tarsi whitish. Wings brown, with yellowish brown veins and 

 stigma and an appendix ; the apical band single, broad ; the first 

 second, third, and fifth posterior cells light coloured at their apices ; 

 the dark spot on the fifth posterior cell (as shown in figure) is only 

 noticeable in the wing in certain lights. Length 9 mm. The type 

 is labelled " :Margherita, 5373. 8." 



Haematopota borneana, ? , Rondani. 



Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, vii, p. 461 (1875) ; Bigot, Bull. vSoc 

 Zool. France, xvi, p. J^ (1891). 



Length 6 — 7 mm. 5 . 



Antennae with the first joint yellowish brown ; the second 

 pitchy blackish wnth the greater part of the third, whose apex is 

 black. 



Forehead dull brown, with two rather small black spots and 

 a wide shining ferruginous brown anterior callus. Face and palpi 

 reddish with two small impressed spots at sides. Thorax with the 

 scutellum above red, the intermediate stripe and side spots brown- 

 ish, not very distinct ; pleurae paler coloured. Abdomen at the 

 base yellowish brown, then l)lack, with white segmentations to the 

 posterior segments, wings brownish, the costal border towards the 

 apex browner, white spotted, the spots small, and a white trans- 

 verse stripe distinct at apex. Halteres with a white stalk and 

 ferruginous club. Legs with anterior and posterior femora pitchy 

 black , the intermediate ones yellowish brown ; all the tibiae white 

 with the apex blackish ; anterior tarsi wholly l)lack, the posterior 

 ones reddish at base. Rondani, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, vii, 

 p. 461. 



I saw the type in the Museum at Genoa in the spring of 1909, 

 it is not in good condition, 6|- mm. long. A small species with a 

 red thorax marked with a broad ])lack median stripe and traces of 

 lateral ones. Face dull reddish, convex, no dark spots on it, the 



