ABANUS. 



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less ochraceous ; basal joints of antennae and rostrum, femora, and 

 apices of tibiie and tarsal joints castaneous brown ; head (excluding 

 central lobe) punctate ; pronotum before the faint transverse 

 impression finely, behind it coarsely punctate ; scutellum foveately 

 impressed and somewhat sparingly punctate, the lateral marginal 

 areas more thickly and coarsely punctate ; corium thickly and 

 finely punctate, the veins prominent, clavus with two longitudinal 

 series of punctures ; membrane brownish ochraceous. 



Length 9 1 millim. 



Hab. Burma ; Palon. 



Genus ABANUS. 

 Abanus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 493 (1909). 



Type, A. coloratus, Dist. 



Distribution. Bengal. 



Head about as long as broad, angularly narrowed anteriorly, the 

 central lobe prominent ; ocelli near base and eyes ; antenna with 

 the basal joint shorter than head but projecting beyond it, second 

 joint a little longer than third, third and fourth subequal in 



Fig. 39. Abanus coloratus. 



length ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxae, first joint very 

 slightly passing base of head ; pronotum elongate, about as long as 

 broad at base, with a narrow anterior collar, the lateral margins 

 nearly straight and moderately laminately reflexed, an obscure 

 transverse impression a little behind middle ; scutellum elongate, 

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