New Tabanus Species from India and Assam. 487 



This very beautiful insect was collected by Mr. F. P. Do Id 

 at Townsville in Queensland. It is a remarkable form, 

 combining tlie characters of two genera as given by Mons. 

 Ernest Andre in VVytsman's ' Genera Insectorum,' 11 Fasc. 

 Mutiilidae. With the eyes of the genus Ephutomorpha, 

 Andre, round, entire, and prominently convex, it has tha 

 dentate median segment proper only to Odontomutilla, Asli- 

 inead. The ? is unknown. Tj/pe in British Museum. 



Ephutomorpha aurigera^ sp. n. 



? . Antennae pale reddish yellow, infuscate towards apex, 

 the terminal three or four joints black ; head dark red ; 

 thorax and legs reddish yellow ; abdomen metallic purple, 

 with a coppery sheen in ceitain lights j thorax above sparsely, 

 abdomen more densely clothed with bright metallic golden 

 pile ; on the abdomen this is restricted to a broad longi- 

 tudinal band down the middle, narrowing posteriorly and 

 changing abruptly on the apical three segments to silvery. 

 Head, thorax, legs, and abdomen very sparsely covered also 

 with long erect black hairs. Head transverse, slightly 

 broader than the thorax ; eyes very convex, round and pro- 

 minent; thorax elongate, subrectangular, narrowed somewhat 

 posteriorly ; abdomen f^essile ; head and thorax somewhat 

 coarsely, abdomen more finely punctured. 



LengtJi 5^ mm. 



Hab. Queensland, N.E. Australia. 



Taken by Mr. F. P. Dodd. Type in British Museum. 



LXIV. — Four neio Tabanus Species from India and Assam. 

 By Geetrude Ricardo. 



The descriptions of these four Tabanus species are now 

 published at the request of Mr. F. M. Howlett, of tlie Agri- 

 cultural Research Institute, Pusa, Bengal, as he needs the 

 names for use in a report being prepared in India. They 

 will be incorporated shortly in a paper on all the Tabanus 

 species of the Oriental Region. The types are all preserved 

 in the British Museum Collection. 



Tabanus khasiensis, ? , sp. n. 



Type ( ? ) and two other females from Khasi Hills, Assam, 

 1000-3000 ft., in Brit. Mus. Coll. One female from Meerut 

 in Calcutta Coll. 



