407 



is rather rare in the fields, one record only being from Garanbi (April 

 2 ist) near Koshun. It has been recorded from Burma and India, from 

 where the specimens usually have the first three abdominal segments 

 reddish brown, and their wings are less distinctly tinged with brown. 



I have but little knowledge of the bite of the female fly, as I 

 only once chanced to meet a female biting the belly of Formosan 

 cattle, dragging a kind of car, near Horisha, about 2 o'clock in the 

 afternoon on a bright day in May of 1917. 



31- Tabanus chrysnrus, Loew. (pi. VIII, fig. 5). 



(Aka-Ushi-Abn, or Yezo-O-Abii). 



Wien. Ent. Monatschr., I[, p. 103, 1858. 



Portschinsky, Horae Soc. Ent. Ross., XXVI, p. 202, 1891. 

 Coquillett, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXI, p. 309, 1898. 

 Matsumura, Thous. Ins. Japan, II, p. 74, pi. XXII, fig. 7, 1905, 



*B*g&fF,ftfg, P. 71, pl- x > fig- VH 1914- 

 Kertesz, Cat. Dipt., Ill, p. 234, 1908. 

 Ricardo, Rec. Ind. Mus., IV, p. 237 1911. 



M#1$mtt9M9m0M^&&t^ pi- v, fig. i, 1914- 



Atylotus pyrrhoceras, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (6) VII, Bull., p. 



LXXVII, 1887. 

 Tabanus pyrrhoceras, Kertesz. Cat. Dipt., Ill, p. 272, 1908. 



Ricardo, Rec. Ind. Mus., IV, p. 237, 1911. 



A very large blackish brown species, with the triangular frontal 

 callus on the broad parallel-sided deep orange yellow frontal stripe, the 

 rather well-defined four brownish yellow stripes on the thorax, the 

 conspicuous rather broad deep orange yellow segmentations of the 

 abdomen, the blackish brown legs except all the tibiae yellowish, and 

 the brownish yellow tinged wings, being the bulkiest Japanese fly. 



Female. Head as wide as the thorax and about a half as long 



