T II 1 ; v N X A r. s 



AXD 



ilAGAZIXE OF XATPRAL HISTORV 



[RIQHTH SERIES.] 



" perlitoraspar-jite museum. 



Naiades, et eirciun vitreos eonsiilite fontes : 

 PoUice virgineo teneros h'lc carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pietura. dirse, replete canisfcruin. 

 At T09, o Nvraphae Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, reourvato variata Ci>rallia truneo 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte. DecB pelagi, et piiip;ui conehylia succo." 



y.Piirfheitii Giaanetlnsi, Eel. 1. 



No. -49. JAXUVRY 19 L2. 



I. — New Genera and Species 0/ Tabanidse in the British 

 Museum [Natural History). By Erxest E. Austen. 



(Published bv permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



The following paper contains descriptions of two new genera, 

 thirteen new species, and one new variety. In addition, a 

 very remarkable species is redescribed, and another species 

 is renamed. The subjoined list may be useful as affording 

 an indication of the habitats of the various species. 



Ethiopian Regiox. 



Adersia (gen. n.) ces^rowfes, Karsch Zanzibar; German East Africa. 



(redescription). 

 JEgophatjamyiajntngens, gen. et sp. n. Zanzibar. 



Tabanus kingi, Austen, var. nigri- Abyssinia; East Africa Protec- 

 feminibus, var. n. torate. 



„ selousi, sp. u. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Bahr-el- 



Ghazal). 

 ,, xanthomelas, nom. nov. for Gold Coast ; Portuguese Congo ; 

 T. leucaspis, v. d. Wulp Congo Free State ; Anglo-Egyp- 

 (nec Wied.). tian Sudan (Mongalla Province) ; 



Uganda and Nyasaland Protec- 

 torates. 

 „ producticornis, sp. n. Portuguese East Africa. 



„ minuscidarius, sp. n. ,, „ „ 



Ann. <£• Man. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. ix. 1 



