of the Family Tabanida^. 359 



List Dipt. pt. V. Suppl. 1, p. 270, pi. i. fiu-. 5 (1854) (Diabasis) ; 



Wulp, Notes Leydeu Museuui, vii. p. 81 (1885).— Brazil. 

 D.Jlavipennis, $, Macq., Dipt. Exot. Supol. 4, p. ;3o (1850) ; Wulp, Cat. 



Dipt. S. Asia, p. G4 (1896) (Z)«V«/>rts/s).— Philippines. 

 D. ochraceus, $, Macq., Dipt. Exot. Sajipl. 4, p. 30 (18o0) {Diabasis). — 



Brazil. 

 D. varipes, Rondani, Studi Eutoin. di Baudi Triiqui, i. p. 105 (1848) 



{Diabasis). — Brazil. 



The following table is drawn up for the species contained 

 in the British Museum collection : — 



1. Abdomen black. Winp's with a dark baud. . scu(<illattis, ^ , ^i(^cq^- 

 Abdomen yellowish. Wings with the ape.x 



dark . . .' 2. 



2. Abdomen with two black stripes bicittafus, 2 > Wiedem. 



Abdomeu with an indistinct yellow median 



stripe 3. 



3. Thorax yellow, with brown stripes. Wings 



with yellow fore border and stigma curvipes, 5 . Fabr. 



Thorax not striped. Wings with brown fore 

 border and stigma ferniyntus, J , Fabr. 



Diachlorus ferrugatus, ? , F. 



One female from Mexico. 



Five females from Belize, Orange Walk, Brit. Honduras, 

 presented by the Colonial Secretaiy ; one female from 

 Arroyos, Tsidro (Townsend Coll.). 



Type of C. coiivergens, ? , Wik., 284 (Miller Coll.). 



Type of C. approximans, $ , Wlk. [Doublcday) , Florida. 



One female from Panzos, Guatemala [Champion), Biol. 

 Centr.-Am. Coll. 



Diachlorus curvipes, ? , W4«dem. ■• V^^* 



Type of Chrj/sops varipes, ? , Walker, from Para (Saunders 

 Coll.), and another female from the same place (Bates Coll.) ; 

 one female from St. Paul's (Bates Coll.), 59. 74 ; one female 

 from Manaos, 12. 2. 96 [Austen) ; one female from Gurupa, 

 23. 1. 96 {Austen). In the Walker type the fore legs are 

 not so dark as is usual in this species, being a faint yellowish 

 brown. This species is nearly allied to D. ftrrvgatus, but 

 may be distinguished by the brown stripes on the yellow- 

 haired thorax, consisting of a brown stripe on each side, 

 beginning on a level with the shoulders far from the fore 

 border of the thorax, continued to the posterior border, with 

 a branch diverging from it and running to the base of the 

 wingj which is yellow on the fore border^ with the apex more 



