igii.] G. RiCARDO : The Oriental Tabanidae. 395 



the first joint yellow, the second equal in length, lineal, the third 

 one and a half longer than the second, 5 ringed. Thorax sub- 

 glabrous, golden haired at sides and beneath wings; black, at the 

 base above scutellum golden haired, scutellum large, transverse- 

 triangular. Halteres dull j^ellow, the large club black. Wings 

 with the fore border widely brown, and the band brown, narrower 

 before the base, elsewhere wide, transverse, passing behind the 

 middle of discal cell. 



Abdomen with fine 3-ellow pubescence, subopaque, the first 

 segment pellucid yellow with a narrow band before the apex, the 

 second ^-ellow, denuded, posteriori}^ black, the third with the black 

 part wider, with a narrovv yellow basal part, fourth, fifth and 

 sixth brown, the fourth with an obsolete discal brown spot; 

 under side brown, at the base yellow, the fourth segment with a 

 blown median spot. Breast black, a little shining, with fine 

 scant}' pubescence. Legs with fine short brown pubescence, 

 anterior coxae dull testaceous, brown at apex, the posterior ones 

 black, femora brown, the anterior pair dull testaceous, anterior 

 tibiae stout, club-shaped, brown, the intermediate ones less stout, 

 dull testaceous, brown in the middle, posterior femora brown, 

 tarsi yellow with the apex brown. Thomson, Hugen. Resa, Dip- 

 tera, p. 452. 



This latter description is given here with a few unnecessary 

 particulars omitted, as I believe it to be the same species as 

 Bigot described. 



Chrysops flavocincta, 9 , Ricardo. 

 (Plate XV, fig. 4.) 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7). ix, p. 380 (1902). 



Type (female) and another female from Khasi Hills, Assam, 

 97, 82 (He3'ne) ; two females from North Khasi Hills, lower ran- 

 ges, 96, 135 (1878, Chcnnell) ; one female from Sarawak, 56, 44 

 (Wallace) : one female from Trincomalee, 54 (Yerbur}'). 



Black. Abdomen with a yellow band on the anterior half of 

 the second segment. 



Face black, shining, with a grey tomentose stripe just below 

 the antennae and an obscure yellowish spot where the usual stripe 

 begins ; a line of grey tomentum divides the cheeks from the 

 upper part of the face; forehead with the usual black tubercles, 

 which are large, a narrow band of grey tomentum divides them. 

 Antennae rather long, yellow, the second and third joints darker; 

 the first two joints pubescent, the third bare. Palpi yellow. 

 Thorax black and shining, with traces of a Inroad grey stripe, .some 

 white pubescence on the dorsum and on the posterior border, and 

 yellow hairs at the sides. Scutellum black. Abdomen black, with 

 some white pubescence, with a yellow band on the anterior half 

 of the first two segments ; that on the second is widest and 



