iQii.l G. RiCARDO : The Oriental Tabanidac. 353 



always black ; the short second joint the same and even the first 

 one at least at the end is darker and very shining, in most speci- 

 mens wholly black-brown. The pubescence on the face and chin 

 is whitish. The fore legs are darker than the posterior ones, even 

 in the palest specimens, mostly black, so that the white base of 

 the tibiae stands out distinctly. The species can be well identified 

 by the wings, which are almost wholly of a dark colour, the pale 

 colouring being for the most part confined to small round points, 

 which are not present on the border of wing at all ; an oblique 

 series of these points runs through the cubital and basal cells, 

 and the pale band which is present at the apex of wing in other 

 species is here hardly outlined by a pair of spots on both sides 

 of the upper branch of third vein ; the second basal cell is inter- 

 sected by a pale band, a continuation of pale spots in the first 

 basal cell, and this band continues strongly curved into the pos- 

 terior angle of wing. It is not unlikely that Doleschall had a 

 specimen of this species before him when he described H. pungens 

 but his remarks are too short to make it possible to decide this 

 point ; of the wings he only says that they have white spots and 

 points, and his figure bears witness to the contrary, because it 

 delineates the rows of points as distinct stripes. As I have al- 

 ready remarked, not much value can be attached to them ; how- 

 ever they are, on the whole, better than those of Macquart. V. d. 

 Wulp, Sumatra Exped. Diptera, pi. i, fig. 13, p. 19. 



Four females. Mt. Singalang, Sumatra, July 1878 (Beccari). 

 I determine this species in agreement with Mr. V. d. Wulp who 

 showed me three closely- allied species from Sumatra, but which 

 could easily be distinguished by the arrangement of the spots at 

 the tip of the wing. Macquart's description shows slight discrepan- 

 cies. H. pungens, Dol. (Java), may be the same species, but the 

 description is too incomplete. Osten Sacken, Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Genova, xvi, p. 419. 



The following is a translation of the description of Hacmato- 

 pota pungens, by Doleschall : — 



Red-brown, the abdominal segments with paler segmenta- 

 tions ; eyes brassy brown, wings dark with white spots and 

 points, legs with indistinct white lines. Length 4 lines. 



Numerous in the woods of the mountain Oenarang, and very 

 troublesome to horses in the rainy season. 



The figure given by Doleschall is useless as a means of identi- 

 fication. 



In the British Museum are two females, one from Negri 

 Sembilan, Malay Peninsula (H. V. Ridley), 1900, and the other from 

 Kobele, N. Borneo (D. Cater), 1895, which I believe belong to this 

 species judging from the wings and the rusty or reddish yellow 

 colour of abdomen, darker at the apex. The wing as figured by 

 V. d. Wulp does not show the round pale circle above the stigma 

 or in the axillary lobe of wing, present in Macquart's type 

 and figured by him ; in these specimens the one above the stigma 

 is present, though not forming a perfect circle, the second one is 



