Species of Tabanidae. 59 



pubescence on tlie first and second joints ; the third is bare. 

 Thorax black, with three short grey stripes, the centre one 

 shortest, none reaching the jjosterior border; the sides grey; 

 the posterior border ot tliorax is fringed with white hairs ; the 

 pubescence on the dorsum black, short, with some white 

 pubescence on the stripes and on the sides ; above the root of 

 the wings there is a black tuft of hairs, with some long white 

 hairs below. Scutellum appears yellowish, bordered with a 

 fringe of white pubescence. Abdomen deep black, the second, 

 third, and fourth segments with white segmentations ; the 

 pubescence black, with white hairs on the sides of the dorsum 

 of second segment, on the white segmentations, and on the 

 sides of the lirst segment, on the sides of the other segments 

 chiefly black ; underside the same, but more hairy. Legs 

 all with fringes of black hairs, which are least thick on the 

 middle femora ; they are brown in colour, with two yellow 

 rings on the middle and posterior tibiae, and the base of the 

 fore tibiae is yellow; the middle and posterior femora are 

 largely yellow ; the fore tibiae and femora with wholly black 

 fringes, long on each border of the femora, long on the outer 

 border and short on the inner border of the tibite ; the middle 

 femora with whitish pubescence forming a scanty fringe on 

 their lower borders, with some thick black hairs at apex; 

 the middle tibiai with a fringe of coarse black hairs on each 

 border and white and black pubescence on the dorsum ; 

 hind femora with very thick black and white pubescence; the 

 hind tibise broad, flat, with fringes of short black hairs on 

 their borders and black and white pubescence on the dorsum ; 

 tarsi with short black pubescence ; the middle and posterior 

 tarsi are almost wholly yellow. Wings dark brown, the pale 

 streak is continuous from the round pale spot above the 

 stigma to beyond the apical cell ; the pale markings of the 

 apex and the external border are so placed that, viewed by 

 the naked eye, a second j)ale streak is seen divided from the 

 first by a brown parallel band, with a few brown markings on 

 it, but no rosettes are apparent. 

 Length 8 mm. 



Ikcmatopota pachycera, ? , Bigot. 



This type from Cambodia (the descrii)tion gives Laos) is 

 also in the Paris Museum. 



This species would come under heading " 15 " in my tabic 

 of Indian and Ceylon species next to II. lata, llicardo, from 

 which it is distinguished by the hind tibice not being fringed, 

 and the third joint of the antcnmc is wider and shorter. It 



