On Five new Species q/Tangouinaj. 291 



XXXVI. — Deacription of Five new Species ofVangon'mx/rom 

 South America. By Mias Gertrude Ricardo. 



The following- species were anion<; some Tabanidaj sent me 

 by Dr. K. Kertosz, of the Budapest Museum, for comparison 

 with the Walker types in tlie British Museum collection. He 

 lias kiiully allowed me to describe these Pangoninaj before 

 returning them to him. 



Subfamily Panoonin^. 

 Scione/uscus, ? , sp. n. 



Brown. Face reddish brown, shining and bare. Proboscis 

 more than half as long as the body. Antennfe red, with a 

 green tinge on the first two joints and apex of third ; a few- 

 short black hairs on the first two joints, chieHy on the under- 

 side. Forcliead brown, with greyish-red tomentum, and a 

 dark brown central stripe ; pubescence short and brown; the 

 ocelli are very distinct. Palpi yellow, the second joint 

 brownish ; the two joints about equal in length, the second 

 curved and tapering. Beard white. Eyes hairy. Thorax 

 reddish brown, with two narrow red stripes, at tiie sides 

 lighter in colour ; pubescence brown, longer on the sides. 

 Breast-sides light yellow, with white pubescence and a few 

 brown hairs in the centre. Scutellum reddish brown. Ab- 

 domen brown, the first two segments light yellow, with a few 

 irregular black spots, the third yellow on its anterior margin, 

 its posterior half and the remaining ones brown, with irregular 

 black markings ; the posterior half of the last segment is 

 yellow ; the dorsum of abdomen covered with short black 

 hairs, at the sides a few silvery-white hairs are intermixed 

 with the black ones, beginning from the third segment; the 

 underside of abdomen is light yellow, with a few small, round, 

 black spots. Legs yellow, apex of tarsal joints brown. 

 Wings smoky brown, fore border yellow; there is a clear 

 band across the middle of wing tinged with yellow, com- 

 prising the basal half of the marginal and submarginal cells, 

 three quarters of the first posterior cell, and the whole of the 

 discoidal cell ; veins brown. Ilalteres yellow, somewhat 

 brown on the head of club. 



Length 11 millim. 



Type ( ? ) from Bolivia {Sonjo). 



