644 Miss G. Ricardo on new Species of 



broad, nanower anteviovly ; the frontal callus reddish brown, 

 large, almost square, not reaching the eyes ; the middle callus 

 a little narrower, but longer, separated from it ; the vertex 

 appears blackish ; forehead same colour as face, with a few 

 short black hairs. Tliorax black, with three narrow grey 

 tomentose stripes and sides grey; a few scattered whitish 

 liairs on dorsum and longer Llackish hairs at sides ; breast 

 and sides covered with grey tomentum and with long greyish- 

 white hairs. Scutdlum black, with grey tomentum. Abdo- 

 vien blackish, reddish on sides of second segment, with round 

 grey lateral spots on each segment and long narrow median 

 ones, these last not always distinct beyond the third segment, 

 the segmentations with short yellow or white hairs on a grey 

 tomentose ground ; dorsum with grey tomentum and with 

 black short pubescence ; underside hoary, with reddish seg- 

 mentations. Legs blackish, with grey tomentum ; the tibiae 

 reddish yellow ; middle and posterior tarsi almost wholly 

 reddish yellow. Wings clear, stigma yellow, veins brown. 



Tahanus fuscomacuJatus, subsp. alter maculatus. 



Type and another female from Ukrul. Manipur, 6400 feet 

 (Rev. W. Pettigrew). 



A species from tlie same locality as T. fuscomaculatus, 

 Ricardo, only differing in the colour of the tihice. which, 

 together with the tarsi, are a very distinct reddish yellow, the 

 extreme apices of femora the same colour. The markings of 

 abdomen differ slightly, the black spot on second segment 

 being very faint, and a black spot is present on the third 

 segment ; the last three segments are only partly black, the 

 posterior borders and sides being reddish yellow, with some 

 yellow hairs intermixed with the black pubescence. Antennce 

 and palpi reddish, the latter with some grey tomentum and 

 black pubescence. 



Length 22 mm. 



Tahanus manipurensis, sp. n. 



Type and two other females from Ukrul, Manipur, 

 6400 feet {Rev. W. Pettigrew). 



A species nearly allied to Tabanus explicatus, Walker, but 

 distinguished from it by the lighter-coloured tomentum of 

 thorax and scutellum and by the absence of narrow fulvous 

 segmentations on abdomen. The abdomen is densely black ; 

 the thorax and scutellum reddish brown, covered with 

 yellowish i)ubescence, which extends to the first segment of 



