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X.hlll. —Descripfions of Thirty new Species o/' Tabani /Vow 

 Africa atid Madagascar. By Geetrude Ricardo. 



The new species now described will be shortly embodied in 

 a larger work to be issued by the Paris Museum. 



Tahanus hrucet, ? , sp. n. 



Type (female) and four other females from Aukole, 

 Uganda, 16. 5. 03 [LL-CoL Bruce), 1903. 206. 



A large species with a reddish abdomen, banded wings, 

 and fore tibiae incrassate ; related to Tahanus septempunctatus, 

 sp. n., but distinguished by the absence of black spots on the 

 abdomen. 



Length 20-21 mm. 



Head large, almost broader than the thorax. Face and 

 forehead rusty red ; face, cheeks, and beard with reddish 

 pubescence. Palpi large, reddish, black at the apex, longer 

 than those of T. septempunctatus, stout at the base, tapering 

 to a point ; pubescence red. Antennaj black, with black 

 pubescence on the first two joints ; the first joint stout, 

 cylindrical, the second very small, the third broad at base 

 with a moderate tooth. Forehead about four times as long 

 as it is broad, equal in width throughout, with short reddish 

 pubescence. Frontal callus brown, broad, transverse, not 

 reaching the eyes, beyond is an oblong brown spot, not con- 

 tiguous. Eyes bare with no markings. 



Thorax and scutellum brown, covered with dense short 

 reddish pubescence, sides and breast reddish with longer red 

 hairs. 8quama3 blackish. Abdomen rather broad, short, 

 uniformly bright red, with short reddish-yellow pubescence; 

 on the extreme lateral margins of segments 3, 4, and 5 

 are some coarse black hairs ; underside black, with narrow 

 yellow segmentations and short yellow pubescence. Legs 

 wholly black ; fore tibise incrassate, curved ; the first tarsal 

 joint as long as the other four, which are short and oblong; 

 the claws and pulvilli large ; the pubescence on legs black, 

 thickest on the posterior femora. Wings hyaline, brown at 

 base and on the fore border as far as the end of the first longi- 

 tudinal vein, with a brown band extending across the wing 

 to the fifth posterior cell. 



Tabanus septempunctatus ^ ? , sp. n. 



The type and specimens mentioned below are in the 

 British Museum Coll. 



