igii-] G. RiCARDO : The Oriental Tahanidae. ^gy 



Chrysops flavipcs, Meig. 



Klass., i, p. 159, pi. ix, fig. 13 (1804) ; Villeii, Ann. Soc. En- 

 tom. France, Ixxiv, p. 310 (1905). 



Chrysops perspicillaris, Loevv, Neue Beitr., iv, p. 25 (1856) ; id., 

 Verb, zool-bot. Ges. Wien, viii p. 633 (1858); Schiner, Fauna 

 Aust. Dipt., i, p. 41 (1862) ; Gobert, Mem. Soc. Linn. Nord France 

 1881, p. 48 (1881) ; Pand., Revue d'Enlom., ii, p. 226 (1883) 

 Griff., Boll. Mus. Zool. et Anat. comp. Torino, x, No. 218 (1895) 

 Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), ix, pp. 426, 430 (1902). 



One female from Baluchistan in Indian Museum coll. rather 

 pale in colouring but identical with the species described by Loew. 

 now stated by Villen to be identical with the Meigen type of C. 

 fiavipes seen by him in the Paris ]\Iuseum. The species is widely 

 distributed, being recorded from Central and South Europe, N. 

 Afiica and Asia Minor. 



