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sides tawny : abdomen tawny, slightly obconical, pitchy towards the tip, very much 

 longer than the chest, clothed with short pale yellow hairs : legs tawny, clothed with 

 very short pale hairs ; feet ferruginous towards the tips ; claws and fore feet black : 

 wings whitish ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; veins black towards the tip ; angle of 

 the tip cross-vein distinct, slightly obtuse, its stump as long as its shorter side ; scales 

 whitish yellow, with pale yellow borders ; poisers pale yellow. Length of the body 

 4^ lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



Tabanus SaRpa, White, MS S., fern. 



Fuscus, thoracis tittis quatuor pectoreque canis, abdomine piceo, ventre cano seg- 

 mentorum marginibus posticis fulvis, pedibus fulvis, fenwribus cinereis, tarsis 

 nigris, alis subcinereis. 



Head gray above, white and thickly clothed with long white hairs beneath ; an 

 obclavate black shining mark on the crown : eyes bronzed, parted above by a mode- 

 rate interval : sucker pitchy, much longer than the head ; lancets ferruginous ; palpi 

 tawny, clothed with very short black hairs: feelers black; first and second joints dark 

 tawny, clothed with short black bristles ; third joint indistinctly angular beneath, 

 armed above with a short, very stout horn, which forms a slightly obtuse angle, whose 

 hind side is slightly convex, its fore side is very short, and forms a very obtuse angle 

 with the continuation of the third joint to the tip ; compound joint very slightly curved 

 upward, shorter than the third joint: chest dark brown, adorned with four hoary 

 stripes, a pair on each side connected by an oblique band : breast hoary, clothed with 

 white hairs : abdomen pitchy, slightly obconical, clothed with hoary and black hairs, 

 very much longer than the chest ; under-side hoary ; hind borders of the segments 

 tawny on each side and beneath : legs tawny, clothed with white hairs ; hips and 

 thighs gray ; shanks and feet clothed with very short black hairs ; feet black ; foot- 

 cushions tawny : wings pale gray ; brands dark brown ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, 

 pitchy at the base and along the fore border ; tip cross-vein nearly straight, its usual 

 curve being very indistinct; scales gray, with pitchy borders ; poisers pitchy. Con- 

 nects Tabanus with Pangonia. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



New Zealand. 



Tabancs Oplus, White, MSS., mas. 



Fuscus, pectore cano abdomine ferrugineo vitta inter rupta nigra omato, antennis 

 pedibusque fulvis, tarsis fuscis, alis subcinereis. 



Head tawny in front, pale yellow and clothed with white hairs beneath : eyes 

 bronzed, meeting on the crown ; facets small on each side, large above, but not form- 

 ing two distinct regions: sucker black; lancets tawny; palpi yellow, clothed with 

 black haiis : feelers dark tawny ; first and second joints clothed with black bristles ; 

 third joint convex beneath, aimed above with a very short horn, which forms a right 

 angle; compound joint straight, tapering, longer than the third joint: chest and 

 breast thickly clothed with tawny hairs ; chest brown ; breast hoary : abdomen ferru- 

 ginous, obconical, a little shorter and broader than the chest, clothed with tawny 

 hairs and at the tip with a few black hairs, adorned above with a broad black stripe, 



