76 



to be rare at the beginning of January.* Mr. G. C. Dudgeon notes 

 that the colour of the eyes in the living insect is emerald-green. 



Tabanus par, Walker. 



List of the Specimens of Dipterous Insects in the Collection of the 

 British Museum, Part V., Supplement I., p. 235 (1854). 



PLATE V., FIG. 39. 



Tabanus par, in addition to being one of the most widely dis- 

 tributed of African Tabanidse, since its range extends from Natal to 

 Senegal, would also appear to be usually one of the commonest 

 species, and is almost always represented in collections of blood- 

 sucking flies received from Tropical Africa. The characters by 

 which this species may be distinguished from T. thoracinus, Pal. de 

 Beauv., have been dealt with in the remarks on the latter (see p. 74). 



The following are the localities, etc., of the sixty-five females in 

 the Museum Collection : Natal : two specimens (including the type 

 of the species) collected before 1849, and one collected in 1857 

 (Gueinzius) ; two specimens from " Port Natal," 1856-1857 (R. W. 

 Plant). " S. Africa " : two specimens, 1863 (Rev. Charles Living- 

 stone, on Dr. Livingstone's Expedition, presented by Lord John 

 Russell). Zululand : one specimen (received from Colonel Sir 

 David Bruce, C.B., R.A.M.C., F.R.S.) ; two specimens from Kosi 

 Bay, February March, 1906 (F. Toppin, presented by E. Warren). 

 Portuguese East Africa : one specimen from Delagoa Bay, 1857 

 (R. W. Plant). North-Eastern Rhodesia : one specimen from 

 Muibwe, Luencenshi River, Luena District, September 27th, 1904, 

 and three specimens from Lukoka River, Kasama District, October 

 2nd, 1904 (R. L. Harger). Nyasaland Protectorate : one specimen 

 from Msama's, Chikala, March 29th, 1906, and a second, without 

 precise locality, 1907 (Dr. J. E. S. Old) ; one specimen from Karonga, 

 North Nyasa, March, 1908 (the late Captain Hallam Hardy, R.A.M.C.). 



* Cf. Surcouf and Roubaud, Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 

 Ann6e 1908, No. 5 (Paris, 1908). 



