380 (hi the Pangoniiije vf the Family TabanitUe. 



on its posterior border; the l)lack stripes are eoutimied very 

 faintly on the third segment ; the sides of abdomen have 

 short bhiek pubesccnee ; the underside yeHow, with tlirec 

 faint brown stripes on the third segment. Legs yellowish 

 brown, with short black pnbesccnce ; the tibiic dilated, es|)c- 

 ciallv the anterior and middle pairs. AVings clear, with 

 brown colouring at the extreme base only filling the basal 

 cells one third of their length, continued along the fore border 

 to the apex, and as a transverse band which attains the posterior 

 border just contiguous to the anal cell ; it is a little fainter in 

 colouring in the fifth posterior cell ; its apical border is 

 straight, also the inner one as far as the anal cell. 



Length 11^ millim. 



The female is identical. 



Chrysops favocinctas, $ , sp. n. 



Type (female) and another female from Khasi Hills, Assam, 

 97. 82 {Hei/ne) ; two females from North Khasi Hills, Lower 

 Kanges, 96. 135 (1878, Chennell) ; one female from Sarawak, 

 56. 44 {^Wallace) ; one female from Trincomalee, 54 [Yer- 

 btiry) . 



Black. Abdomen with a yellow band on the anterior half 

 of the second segment. 



Face black, shining, with a grey tomeiitose stripe just 

 helow the antennae and an obscure yellowish spot where the 

 usual stripe begins ; a line of grey tomentum divides the 

 cheeks from the upper part of the face ; forehead with the 

 usual black tubercles, which are large, a narrow band of 

 grey tomentum divides them. Antennae rather long, yellow, 

 the second and third joints darker ; the first two joints ])ubes- 

 cent, the third bare. Palpi yellow. Thorax black and 

 shining, with traces of a broad grey stripe, some white 

 pubescence on the dorsum and on the posterior border, and 

 yellow hairs at the sides. Scutellum black. Abdomen black, 

 •with some white pubescence, with a yellow band on the ante- 

 rior half of the first two segments ; that on the second is 

 widest and concave in the middle, becoming broader at the 

 sides; the underside yellow at the base and black on the 

 apex. Legs black, the anterior and middle femora and tlie 

 middle and posterior tarsi yellow. AVings clear, the dark 

 colouring hardly perceptible at the extreme base ; along the 

 fore border it is narrow and only reaches the band, the apex 

 being quite clear; the band hardly attains the hind border 

 and becomes paler in the fourth posterior cell, only just con- 

 tinuing into the fifth ; in some of the specimens it does not 



