of the Family Tabanidse. 355 



latter being of equal length, with the exception of the last 

 one, which is a little longer, ending in a blunt point ; they 

 are situated on the lower edge of a protuberant tubercle 

 Avhich reaches the eyes on each side and is itself placed more 

 than halfway down the face ; the forehead is long, gradually 

 narrowing to the vertex. The palpi are Tabanus-\\ke in 

 shape, ending in an acute point. The abdomen is long and 

 narrow, the same width throughout. The wings are longer 

 than the body and rather large. The legs are long and 

 slender. 



Udenocera hrunneus, ? , sp. n. 



Three females from Kandy, Ceylon ( Yerburij) . The tvpe 

 is numbered 31. 5. 92, the others 18. 5. 92 and 30. 5. 92."^ 



Brown. Face shining brown below the antennae, forming 

 a triangular convex tubercle, with the apex reaching the 

 proboscis, and longer than the cheeks ; on each side of the 

 face is a brown shining stripe bordering the eyes for a short 

 distance and then the facial tubercle to its apex ; the cheeks 

 are ashy grey, with long white hairs. The proboscis short, 

 the palpi nearly as long ; the first joint short, the second 

 stout at its base, curved, ending in a point, yellow, with 

 black pubescence. The first two joints of the antennse 

 yellow, with black pubescence, the third black ; the antennal 

 tubercle brown, shining, grey below ; the forehead brown, 

 shining, convex in the middle, M'ith a transverse groove near 

 the tubercle. Eyes bare, the facets of equal size ; on the 

 posterior border the eyes project beyond the vertex of the 

 forehead. Thorax brownish, shining, with indistinct linear 

 yellow stripes on each side, yellow at the sides ; the breast 

 hrown with black hairs, then grey with whitish hairs. 

 Scutellum yellow-brown at extreme base, with yellow 

 pubescence. Abdomen of a uniform brown, somewhat 

 shining, with brown pubescence, the underside yellowish at 

 the base. Legs pale yellow, with the femora, apices of 

 tibiae, and apices of all the joints of the tai'si except the first 

 one brown; the last joint of the tarsi wholly brown, with 

 pulvilli and claws ; the pubescence of the legs is yellow on 

 the yellow parts and black on the brown parts. Wings 

 hyaline, the veins yellowish brown, the fore border and the 

 apex brown; some light spaces are apparent in the brown of 

 the apex ; the brown shading extends along the posterior 

 border faintly into the fourth posterior cell ; on one wing of 

 the type the apical brown is reduced to a shading of the 

 veins. 



Length 11 mm. 



