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  margins 
  and 
  posterior 
  angles 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  four 
  segments, 
  and 
  

   a 
  wliite-liaired 
  median 
  fleck 
  on 
  tlie 
  hind 
  margin 
  of 
  each 
  of 
  

   the 
  first 
  five 
  segments) 
  is 
  entirely 
  black. 
  

  

  "Tabanus 
  fuscipes, 
  n. 
  sp." 
  (p. 
  62, 
  pi. 
  xiv. 
  fig. 
  15). 
  — 
  The 
  

   name 
  fuscipes 
  is 
  preoccupied 
  by 
  7\ 
  fuscipes, 
  Ricardo, 
  1908 
  

   (for 
  a 
  species 
  found 
  in 
  South 
  and 
  C'entral 
  Africa). 
  The 
  

   writer 
  therefore 
  ventures 
  to 
  propose 
  the 
  designation 
  Tabanus 
  

   taylori 
  for 
  the 
  species 
  under 
  consideration. 
  

  

  Judging 
  from 
  the 
  specimen 
  sent 
  to 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  

   the 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  legs 
  would 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  paitiy 
  mis- 
  

   leading 
  ; 
  the 
  femora 
  and 
  tibise 
  are 
  cinnamon-coloured 
  — 
  a 
  very 
  

   different 
  thing 
  from 
  " 
  clove-brown." 
  

  

  '' 
  Tabanus 
  gregarius, 
  Erich." 
  (p. 
  63, 
  pi. 
  xiv. 
  fig. 
  16). 
  — 
  This 
  

   is 
  not 
  Tabanus 
  gregarius, 
  Erichs., 
  and 
  does 
  not 
  even 
  agree 
  in 
  

   any 
  way 
  with 
  the 
  original 
  description 
  of 
  that 
  species. 
  It 
  is 
  

   a 
  species 
  nova. 
  

  

  "Tabanus 
  Uneatus, 
  n. 
  sp." 
  (p. 
  65, 
  pi. 
  xiv, 
  fig. 
  17),= 
  T. 
  rufi- 
  

   notatus, 
  Big. 
  (syns. 
  T. 
  elest'eem, 
  Summers, 
  Ann. 
  & 
  Mag. 
  

   Nat. 
  Hist. 
  ser. 
  8, 
  vol. 
  x., 
  Aug. 
  1912, 
  p. 
  221 
  ; 
  and 
  T. 
  desig- 
  

   natus, 
  Ricardo, 
  Res. 
  de 
  I'Exp. 
  Scient. 
  Neerlaud. 
  k 
  la 
  Nouvellc- 
  

   Guinee, 
  vol. 
  ix., 
  Zool., 
  livr. 
  3, 
  [). 
  390, 
  1913). 
  — 
  The 
  name 
  

   Uneatus 
  is 
  preoccupied 
  by 
  Tabanus 
  liaeatus, 
  Fabr. 
  (1781) 
  

   (= 
  T. 
  giganteus, 
  Deg.). 
  

  

  "Tabanus 
  pseudoar 
  dens, 
  n. 
  sp." 
  (p. 
  66, 
  pi. 
  xiv. 
  fig. 
  18). 
  — 
  

   As 
  shown 
  by 
  two 
  ? 
  ? 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  kindly 
  forwarded 
  by 
  

   Mr. 
  Taylor, 
  the 
  dorsum 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen 
  is 
  mummy-brown 
  

   (dark 
  brown 
  at 
  the 
  distal 
  extremity), 
  not 
  " 
  clove-brow^i," 
  as 
  

   stated 
  in 
  the 
  description 
  ; 
  the 
  first 
  four 
  ventral 
  scutes 
  are 
  

   fawn-coloured, 
  not 
  "clove-brown"; 
  and 
  the 
  wings 
  in 
  the 
  

   two 
  specimens 
  received 
  have 
  a 
  well-marked 
  brownish 
  (nut 
  

   " 
  creamy") 
  tinge. 
  

  

  "Tabanus 
  tetralineatus, 
  n. 
  sp." 
  (p. 
  68, 
  pi. 
  xiv. 
  fig. 
  20),= 
  

   T. 
  cinerescens, 
  MacLeay 
  (King's 
  'Narrative 
  of 
  a 
  Survey 
  of 
  

   the 
  Interrropical 
  and 
  VVestern 
  (Joasts 
  of 
  Australia,' 
  vol. 
  ii. 
  

   p. 
  467, 
  1826). 
  — 
  The 
  name 
  Tabanus 
  cinerescens 
  and 
  its 
  author 
  

   liave 
  hitherto 
  been 
  somewhat 
  unfairly 
  treated, 
  Wiedemann 
  

   and 
  subsequent 
  writers, 
  including 
  Kertesz 
  (' 
  Catalogus 
  

   Dipterorum,' 
  vol. 
  iii. 
  p. 
  234, 
  1908), 
  having 
  written 
  cinerascens 
  

   instead 
  of 
  cinerescens, 
  and 
  attributed 
  the 
  designation 
  to 
  King 
  

   instead 
  of 
  to 
  MacLeay. 
  The 
  title-page 
  of 
  the 
  volume 
  in 
  

   which 
  the 
  description 
  was 
  published 
  bears 
  the 
  dnte 
  1827 
  ; 
  

   the 
  present 
  writer 
  is, 
  however, 
  informed 
  by 
  Mr. 
  C. 
  Davies 
  

  

  