On a new Species 0/ Tabanus/rowj India. 350 



median segment with a sulcus from the base in which lies a 

 carina, delicately obliquely striated at the base. Second 

 transverse cubital uervure missing, the first joining the 

 ciibitiis al)out hallway between the two recurrent nervures. 



Ildb. Mackay, Queensland {Turner). 



This species may be distinguished by the absence of the 

 second transverse cubital nervure, by the very broad yellow 

 frcnt, and by the distance between the anteimje at the base. 



Zoyphium rnjtpes, Rohw, 

 Zot//ihium rujipes, Roliw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mu3, xl. p. 585 (1911). 



I have not seen the type of this species, but the description 

 answers so well to Sericop/iorus relucens that I suspect that 

 the name will have to sink as a synonym. 



XLII. — A neio Species of Tahanus from India. 

 By Gertrude Ricardo. 



In a small collection of Tabanidse sent me for identification 

 by M. Surcouf from the Paris Museum the following new 

 species, represented by two males and two females, occurred : — 



Tahanus trichinopoUs, sp. n. 



]\Jale (type), female (type), from Tiichinopoly {F. Caius)^ 

 1911 ; and another male and female from the same locality. 



A small species belonging to Group I. with the subcallus 

 not showing. Eyes with cross-bands (see my table in 

 ' Records Indian Museum/ iv. no. vi. p. 114, 1911). Frontal 

 calli consisting of two separate calli. Abdomen reddish 

 yellow, with four well-defined black stripes. Legs and an- 

 tennae yellow. 



Length 8 mm. (male), 10 mm. (female). 



Female. — Face covered with whitish tomentum, yellowish 

 above, with white pubescence on the lower half. Beard 

 white. Falpi stout, ending in a fijie point, pale yellowish, 

 some black pubescence above and white hairs below at base. 

 Anteniice pale yellow, only the first joint left. Forehead 

 covered with yellow ish-grey tomentum, about five times as 

 long as it is wide anteriorly, about a third narrower ante- 

 riorly. Frontal callus olive-coloured, almost square, almost 

 reaching the eyes (in the other female it does so completely), 

 the second callus darker in colour, being brown, irregular in 



