pleurae as in the female but the pubescence longer, more dense, and 

 more conspicuous, especially the black pubescence, on the posterior half 

 of the mesopleurae much more dense ; scutellum also as in the female 

 but with longer pubescence. 



Wings more clear than in the female, with the veins yellowish 

 or brownish. Squamae with more brownish margins. Haltcres more 

 brownish. 



Legs as in the female, but rather short; the outer fringe of the 

 front femora and the lower fringe of the middle and hind femora 

 longer and composed only of black hairs. 



Abdomen not conical but the apical four segments forming a 

 very short flat conical, shorter than the head and thorax (including the 

 scutellum) together and broader than the latter, much more blackish 

 than in the female, with the narrower reddish yellow or deep yellow 

 segmentations which are notched and haired as in the female, pubescence 

 the rest', also as that in the female but slightly longer especially on 

 the lateral parts ; gonitalia rather small, brownish with the tip reddish 

 yellow, covered with numerous pale brownish yellow pubescence inter- 

 mixed with some blackish hairs. 



Length : 22-22,5 mm. 



The description of the male is from four flies which are well- 

 preserved specimens from Towada (July 25th), Sapporo (August 2Oth) r 

 and Onuma (August 1 8th). 



This species varies but a very little in both sexes as mentioned 

 above, and it is easily distinguished from any other Japanese species of- 

 the restricted genus Tabanus by the four stripes on the thorax and the 

 abdominal yellow bands ; one species of Japanese Therioplectes has the 

 yellow bands on the abdomen but tarandinus^ Lin., has no thoracal 

 stripes and is much smaller, and it has the distinct ocelligerous tubercle ;. 

 Miss Ricardo placed T. buddha, Port., in her Revision of the Species 

 of Tabanus from the Oriental Region, 1911, as a Chinese subforrn of 

 , and it may be really so, but I now take the name bitddha 



