Tnbanida? from the Oriental Region. r)43 



facial tubercles black, sliininp^, very protul)erajit, round, not 

 reucliinp; the oral opeiiiiicr; cliceks with yellow hairs. Pa^pi 

 black, with a few black hairs. AntiUiuB long, cylindriciij, 

 black, the first joint longer than the second, the third not 

 quite 80 long as the first two together. Forehead ^hvcxq colour 

 as face; the frontal callus black, shining, transverse, not 

 reaching the eyes; a black spot on vertex bears the ocelh'. 

 Thorax black, covered with appressed golden pubescence; 

 breast and sides covered with greyish tomentum and with 

 golden and paler yellow haiis. Hcute/lum similar. Ahdomen 

 yellow at base, the first segment with a median black spot, 

 the second wholly yellow, the third blackish, dull yellow at 

 sides, and with three roundish yellow spots, also present on 

 the third segment, but rather smaller; a faint greyish median 

 spot is perceptible on the fourth, which, together with the 

 remaining segments, is black ; the black part of abdomen 

 ■with the same appressed pubescence as thorax, thickest on 

 the last three segments ; underside chiofly yellow, only the 

 extreme apex black. Legs black, with black pubescence, 

 thickest on the hind femora. Wings with a narrow brown 

 fore border and brown at base, the transverse band wide, 

 somewhat irregular on both borders, the hyaline sinus faint ; 

 the clear space between the band and the apical spot is 

 distinctive of this species, as it reaches the fore border, 

 breaking the brown border ; the apical spot large, reaching 

 and extending over the anterior branch of fork of third vein. 



Tahanus excelsus, sp. n. 



A long series of females from Mashobra, Simla Hills, 

 7000 feet {Col. Pease), in Indian Museum. 



Many of the specimens are in a very bad state, and almost 

 all have lost their antennpe ; but five are fairly well preserved, 

 wliich I have marked as paratypes. 



A species very nearly allied to Tahanus cordiger, Meig., 

 but distinguished from it by the presence of three bands on 

 the eyes and by the shape of the fronial callus, which does 

 not reach the eyes, and the forehead is more than tliree times 

 as long as it is wide. Palpi are also different in shape and 

 reddish yellow, not white. 



Length 10-12 mm. 



Face covered with ashy-grey tomentum and with a few 

 white hairs. Beard while. Pa/pt yellow, with black pubes- 

 cence, stout, ending in an obtuse point. Antennte reddish, 

 the third joint very wide and short, the tooth represented by 

 an angle only. Forehead about five times as long as it is 



