1 91 1.] (>. RiCARDO : The Oriental Tabanidae. 349 



posterior legs whitish. Wings brown, with yellowish brown veins 

 and an appendix ; the apical band double , the openings of the 

 ])osterior cells light coloured. 



Length 8 J- mm. 



A male from Velverry, Ceylon, 26-X-91 (Yerbury), 92, 192, in 

 poor preservation, is probably the male of this species. Ricardo. 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xviii, i). 120. 



The apical band of wing is double, l>oth branches united at 

 base, diverging later. The first joint of the antennae is as long 

 as the first annulation of the third joint. 



Haematopota brcvis, V , Ricardo. 

 (Plate xvi, fig. 16.) 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xviii, p. 122 (1906). 



Type (female), Kanthalla, Ceylon, 19-X-90 (Yerbur}^, 92, 192, 

 and another female; one female from Velverrj', Ceylon, i8-i-9i 

 (Yerbury), 92, 192; two females from Bangalore, Mysore, June 24 

 (Watson), 95, 28, and type (male) from the same locality. 



This species is distinguished from H . cingalensis by the short 

 first joint of the antennae, and from H. javana, Wied., by the 

 blackish brown abdomen with white incisions and a mere trace of 

 a grey stripe. 



A brown species, distinguished by its short first antennal jo'int 

 and by the rings on the middle and posterior tibiae. 



Face grey, with brown pubescence ; a dark spot under each 

 antenna and some darker colour continued to the mouth ; the 

 stripe on each side yellowish, with brown dots and spots; the 

 beard brown; the /'«//>/ yellow, with black pubescence and white 

 hairs below. Frontal callus j^ellow- brown, in some specimens 

 darker in the middle, short, broad, not reaching the eyes, the 

 anterior border nearly straight, the posterior convex; the spot 

 between the antennae small, ill-defined, brown. Forehead yellowish 

 brown, darker on the vertex; the paired spots black, triangular, 

 the apices touching the frontal callus. Antennae yellowish, densely 

 covered with grey tomentum, at the apices l)lack : the first joint 

 short, robust, with black pubescence, the second small, with black 

 hairs, the third slender, twice as long as the first. Thorax brown, 

 with short silvery white tomentum, and three grey stripes all 

 ending in a grey spot, but the median one the longest ; the base 

 of thorax and shoulders grey; sctitellum brown, gre}' on the 

 posterior border, pubescence at the sides brown; breast reddish 

 brown. Abdomen the same colour as the thorax, the borders of 

 the segments whitish, the sides of the first two segments grey; 

 there is a trace of a grey stripe on the second segment only. 

 Legs brown-black, the base of the tibiae white; the first joint of 

 the fore tarsi nearly as long as the four remaining joints, which 

 are broad and short; the middle and posterior tibiae reddish 

 brown, with yellow rings; the base of the middle and posterior 



