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Erephopsis rufoaurea Phil. 



One female from Concepcion, Chili, 2. 1906 (P. Herbst), Coli. 

 Lichtwardt. 



Chrysops trifaria Macq. 



A female in Brit. Mus. Coli, from Chili (Fry Coli.), 1905, and 

 3 females from Raneagua and Concepcion, Chili (Herbst Coli.) in 

 German Ent. Coli. 



Having taken notes of these types in the Paris Museum Coli, 

 some years ago, I am enabled to identify these specimens as this 

 species. The type is not in very good preservation, but the species 

 with its series of three spots on each abdominal segment and well 

 marked apical spot and transverse band is not difficult to identify. 

 Length 61/2—8 mill. 



Face yellowish, shining in the centre, with a blackish tubercle 

 on each side, lower part of cheeks black. Palpi tawny with 

 black hairs. Forehead yellowish, the callosities black. An- 

 te nnae black, the first Joint yellowish, and together with the 

 second Joint, with black pubescence, the first Joint shghtly incras- 

 sate. Thorax black with four yellow stripes. Scutellum black. 

 Abdomen black, with three distinct yellowish spots on each 

 segment on well preserved specimens, those on the first segment 

 smaller; the median spot is always triangulär, its apex reaching 

 the foreborder in the second segment only, the side spots are 

 triangulär but shorter, or they degenerate in some specimens to 

 small roundish spots, in the type they are more longitudinal, 

 and on the second segment a round spot appears on the anterior 

 border above the lateral triangulär spot, in some of these specimens 

 it is joined to this latter; underside black with yellowish tomentum. 

 Legs yellowish, the knees, apices of anterior tibiae, the fore tarsi 

 and the joints of the other tarsi black. Wings with a dark 

 brown fore border and transverse band, the basal cells dark in 

 their basal halves, the band very irregulär on its anterior border, 

 produced in the submarginal cells, with a hyaline sinus on the 

 inner border, divided from the large apical spot by a whitish band, 

 the apical spot spreads into the second submarginal cell, the 

 posterior border of the wing greyish, leaving the Spaces between 

 it and the brown colouring white in contrast, veins black. 



PALEARCTIC REGION. 



Tabaninae. 



Tabanus paradoxus Jaen. 



One female from Kasikroporum, Russ. Kurdistan (E. Koenig). 

 Tlis species and the foUowing are all in the Coli. Lichtwardt. 



Tabanus tropicus Meig. 



A series of females from different localities. 



Two males from Finkenburg, Berlin. 



ArcbiT iUr Naturgescbichte 



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