420 



33, Tabanus Candidas, Ricardo. 



Ann. Hist.- Nat. Mus. Nat. Hung., XI, p. 172, 1913. 



A species near Tabanus birmanicits. Bigot, but quite different. A 

 large black species with a white haired thorax and scutellum. Thorax 

 sharply distinguished from the dull deep black abdomen. Antennae, 

 legs and palpi blackish. Forehead narrow. Length: 21 mm. 



Female. Face covered with dark brown tomentum and with 

 black liairs in centre below antennae and on the cheeks. Beard 

 blackish brown. Palpi blackish, slightly stouter at base, ending in an 

 obtuse point. Antennae blackish, the third joint somewhat reddish 

 brown, the first two joint with a little black pubescence. Subcallus 

 and forehead the same colour as face, some greyish tomentum on 

 forehead above the frontal callus. Forehead about seven times as long 

 as it is broad, hardly half the width anteriorly, that it is at vertex, 

 frontal callus black, narrow, not reaching the eyes, its short extension 

 nearly equal in width, ending in a point. Thorax brownish, with a 

 blackish brown central stripe and less defined lateral ones, dorsum 

 covered with thick appressed silvery white pubescence, some black 

 hairs intermixed, especially on the stripe. Scutellum the same. 

 Legs black witli black pubescence. Wings tinged smoky brown, with 



white streaks in most of the cells, veins blackish brown. 







This species is not known to me, and the above is Ricardo's 

 description from only a single specimen collected by H. SauU-r at an 

 unknown place in Formosa. 



34. Tabanus birmanicus, Bigot, (pi. VIII, fig 8 ; pi. 



XI, figs. 13 & 14) 



(Birma Abu) 



Aty lotus birmanitus, Bigot, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, V, p. 653, 1892. 



Tabanus birmanicus, V. d. Wulp, Cat. Dipt. South Asia, p. 63, 1896, 



Kertesz, Cat. Dipt., Ill, p. 228, 1908. 



Ricardo, Red. Ind. Mus., IV, p. 200, 1911. 



