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Head a little wider than the thorax. Face red, thickly 

 covered with yellow toinentutn and with yellow pubescence; 

 beard yellow. Palpi long, slender, slightly broader at the 

 base, tapering to a point, with thick black pubescence and 

 some yellow hairs below. Antennae bright red, only the 

 extreme aj)ex black ; the first and second joints pale yellow, 

 with block pubescence ; the tooth fairly prominent near the 

 base. Forehead narrow, six times as long as it is broad, 

 yellow, the frontal callus brown, red, shining, not reaching 

 the eyes, narrow, produced to a point posteriorly, whence a 

 nairow line proceeds nearly reaching the vertex. Thorax 

 fulvous, with short yellow tornentum on the dorsum ; no 

 sfri[)es, sides with longer yellow hairs; the breast yellow, 

 with thick pubescence consisting of long yellow hairs. Scu- 

 tellum and abdomen fulvous, the segmentation of the latter 

 very narrovvly pale yellow, the dorsum with short yellow 

 pubescence, the lateral borders of the last four segments with 

 yellow transparent margins; the underside similar, with 

 slu)rt black pubescence. Legs dull reddish, the basal half 

 of the fore tibiae white, with wiiite pubescence, the basal half 

 of the other tibia? pale reddish, with some black pubescence 

 on the middle pair, and on the posterior pair with thick black 

 pubescence, long on the outer and inner borders, mixed with 

 a few fulvous hairs ; the fore femora dull black, the middle 

 and ])osterior femora dull red, but all so thickly covered with 

 black ])ubescence that they appear black ; the fore and middle 

 femora with fringes of long black hairs on the outer and inner 

 borders; all the tarsi blackish, with black pubescence; the 

 coxse blackish, with grey tomentum. Wings tinged with 

 brown, yellow on the fore border ; veins yellow ; no ap- 

 pendix ; all the posterior cells widely open. 



Tabanus ohscnripea, ? , sp. n. 



The following specimens are in the British Museum 

 collection : — 



Type (t'emal(^) and another from Zegi, Tsana, Abyssinia, 

 V. & vi. 1902 {De(jen), 11)02. 222 ; two females from Dem- 

 bratcha, Godjam, Abyssinia, April and May, 1902 {Depen), 

 1902. 222. 



This yellow species from Abyssinia is nearly allied to 

 Tal>anus par, Wik., and Tabanus thoracinus, P. B., but is 

 distingnishetl from them by the black fore temora. 



Length 14 mm. 



Forehead narrow, nearly six times as long as it is broad. 

 The palpi have a few black hairs, but chiefly whitish pubes- 



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