igii-] G. RiCARDO : The Oriental Tabanidae. 357 



{E) Apical band of wing single, narrow, not hand-like, reaching from 

 outer to inner border of icing. 



Haematopota fuscifrons, Austen. 



(Plate xvii, lig. 17.) 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), i, p. 411 (1908). 



Haematopota cordigera 9 , Bigot, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xvi, 

 p. 76 (1891); id., Mem Soc. Zool. France, v, p. 626 (1892); 

 Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, (7), xviii, p, 125 (1906). 



Antennae 3'ellow, the first joint cylindrical, the third not at 

 all swollen, blackish toward the apex, about twice as long as the 

 axis of head ; palpi whitish, proboscis brown, face and beard 

 white ; a large wide shining black spot above the antennae : and 

 beyond this on the pale ashy grey forehead a large dull black 

 cordiform spot, vertex brownish ; thorax dull reddish with three 

 grejdsh stripes, sides with white tomentum, scutellum chestnut 

 coloured, greyish in the middle; squamae greyish, halteres pale 

 yellow; abdomen blackish, and little shining, all the segments 

 narrowly bordered with white; femora 3'ellow, the base and apex 

 brownish, the anterior pair blackish, anterior tibiae black with 

 the base white and the tarsi black, intermediate and posterior 

 tibiae with the base, apex and median ring black, white above the 

 latter and reddish below, their tarsi black, yellow at the base ; wings 

 gre}', with numerous whitish spots dispersed in irregular series, 

 and at the apex a transverse concave straight simple whitish band. 



Length 9 mm. Bengal, one specimen. Bigot, Mem. Soc. Zool. 

 France, v, p. 626. 



Type from India. 



This species is easily distinguished by the colouring of the 

 forehead, by the cylindrical antennae, and by the rings on the 

 middle and posterior tibiae. 



Face grey, no spots except faint traces of two below the 

 antennae. Palpi yellow with black pubescence ; beard white. 

 Frontal callus dark brown, shining, reaching the eyes, broad, 

 bordered in front by a shining yellow narrow band, which is 

 continued between the antennae instead of the usual black 

 spot. Forehead grey, with a large brown-black heart-shaped 

 spot in place of the usual paired spots ; it joins the posterior 

 l)order of the frontal callus and almost reaches the eyes at the 

 sides ; becoming narrower on its posterior half it is continued to 

 the vertex as a broad stripe. Antennae yQ\\o\v,\o\\g, slender, but 

 not so long as those of the preceding species {H. Indiana, Bigot), 

 the first joint being not much more than half as long as the third, 

 the second joint short, both with black pubescence ; the third with 

 the extreme apex dusky. Thorax brown, with grey shoulders 

 and grey stripes, ending in spots at the suture ; grey s])ots at the 

 base ; the sides are also grey, as is the breast which has white 

 hairs. Scutellum brown, grey in the centre. .1 bdomen dark brown , 

 with distinct white borders to the segments, but no sign of stripe 



