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human beings, but her attacking the latter may not be severe to the 

 latter. In other countries, it is recorded from Java, India, and the 

 Malay Fedarate States. 



14. Tabanus miyakei, Shir. (n. sp.) (PI. VI, fig. 2 ; 



PI. XI, figs. I & 2), 



(Miyake-Abu) 



Rather small-sized pale greyish yellow-brown species, with a 

 roundish castaneous frontal callus on the rather broad nearly parallel- 

 sided deep yellowish brown frontal stripe, with the slightly paler ab- 

 domen and legs, and with the wings tinged with brown at the costal 

 margin. 



Pemale. Head apparently broader than the thorax, but rather 

 short and somewhat flat-triangular when seen from above. Frontal 

 stripe slightly contracting from the upper part down to the front eye- 

 angles, and wholly three times as long as its broadest part or nearly 

 four times as long as its narrowest part ; frontal stripe covered with a 

 dense yellowish brown dust, and bearing a short but rather stout slop- 

 ing blackish pubescence which becomes denser on the vertex at where 

 it has no ocelligerous tubercle ; fi'ontal callus shining brownish, almost 

 rounded and globular, never touching the eyes at any part, and with 

 no extension ; frontal triangle moderately convex, the same as the 

 frontal stripe in colour, bare from pubescence, and with a very fine 

 inconspicuous median sulcus ; face dull greyish yellow but slightly 

 paler below, conspicuously raised from the eye- margins, with two rather 

 large lateral pits, and bearing almost no hairs on the epistoma but on 

 the side-cheeks there are some conspicuous stout blackish brown hairs 

 especially about the upper outer corners which are deep yellowish 

 brown as the frontal triangle ; jowls moderately inflated, ashy greyish, 

 with long greyish yellow pubescence which is not extend up to the 

 back of the head ; all along below the eyes and up all the back of the 

 head to the vertex is a narrow dull yellowish (becoming brownish at 



