igii.] G. RiCARDO : The Oriental Tabanidac. 333 



T3'pe (female) from Hakgala, and three females from Niu- 

 wara Eliya, Ceylon, 1891 (Yerbury), females from Pundaluoya, 

 Ceylon, 1890 and 1898, and one female from Galagcdara, Ceylon, 

 1897 (Green). 



There is a note by Col. Yerbury on this species, viz., " Very 

 common at Nimvara Eliya, May 1891." 



A reddish brown species, with rings on the middle tibiae 

 only; the other tibiae white at the base; the antennae long, 

 cylindrical. 



Face grey; a yellowish stripe covered with brown dots and 

 spots reaches from the antennae to the eyes on each side ; palpi 

 \'ellow, with white pubescence; beard white. Frontal callus dark 

 brown, shining, concave on the anterior (lower) border, convex on 

 the posterior (upper) border; the spot between the antennae black, 

 oblong: the paired spots black, oblong, just reaching the eyes, 

 with gre}^ borders. Forehead brownish yellow, darker on the 

 vertex, grey at sides. Antennae long and slender, reddish yellow, 

 the third joint darker; the first joint not quite so long as the 

 third, the second small, both w-ith black pubescence. Thorax 

 reddish brown, the shoulders, two stripes which reach the suture 

 and end in two spots, the base of thorax and a spot on each side 

 grey ; traces of a short white pubescence on the dorsum ; breast 

 brown with brown pubescence, then grey wdth white pubescence ; 

 scutelluni reddish brown. Abdomen a redder brow^n, segments 

 bordered with narrow whitish bands; pubescence black, white on 

 the borders of the segments and at the sides ; traces of gre}' spots 

 on the apical segments; the under side brown, with white borders 

 to the segments, grey at the sides. Legs dark brown, the middle 

 tibiae redder, with two white rings, and the base of the tarsi yellow- 

 ish, as are also the posterior tarsi; the middle femora are 

 reddish, with white pubescence. Wings brownish, with brown veins 

 and an appendix, the hght markings distinct, with three rosettes, 

 the apical band single. Length 8 ram. Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. (7), xviii, p. 118. 



Distinguished from H. atomaria,\Vik., by the narrower frontal 

 callus, and by the longer cylindrical first antennal joint. 



Division IV. 



Legs not uniform in colour but with typical rings on the 

 middle and posterior tibiae. 



Group IV. 



The first joint of antennae abnormally large and stout, and 

 as long as or longer than the third joint. 



Haematopota validicornis, 9 , n. sp. 



(Plate xvii, fig. 23.) 

 In Brit. Mus. coll. 



