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stripes: breast tinged with gray, partly ferruginous, clothed with tawny hairs : abdo- 

 men ferruginous, obconical, very little longer than the chest, clothed with short black 

 hairs, pitchy towards the tip ; each segment adorned with a triangular tawny spot 

 which rests on the hind border, and is clothed with tawny hairs ; disk of the underside 

 pitchy : legs ferruginous, clothed with short black hairs ; feet pitchy ; hips and claws 

 black ; foot-cushions tawny : wings gray, dark brown along the fore border, pale brown 

 along the borders of tbe veins ; wing-ribs and veins pitchy, the latter black towards 

 the tips ; curve of the tip cross-vein very near the base, not angular ; poisers pitchy, 

 with tawny tips. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 

 Port Natal. 



Tabanus brevivitta, mas. 



Fiavus, capite subtus albido, thoracis disco ferrugineo vittis duabus Jlavis ferrugineo 

 macidatis ornato, antennis basi pedibusque fulvis, tarsis piceis, alis limpidis 

 fusco trimaculatis, ad costam flavo-fuscis. 



Head yellow, yellowish-white and clothed with pale yellow hairs beneath : eyes 

 bronze of one colour, but forming, as usual, two regions : sucker black ; palpi pale 

 vellow clothed with pale yellow hairs : first and second joints of the feelers tawny : 

 chest ferruginous, adorned with two yellow stripes, on which are ferruginous spots ; 

 sides and breast pale yellow : abdomen obconical, tawny, nearly twice the length of 

 the chest ; fore borders of the segments and the whole of the three last segments fer- 

 ruginous : legs tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; shanks darker and more hairy 

 than the thighs ; feet pitchy : wings colourless, yellowish-brown along the fore border, 

 each adorned with three irregular pale brown spots, which form an interrupted very 

 oblique band ; wing-ribs tawny ; veinsblack, tawny at the base ; curve of the tip cross- 

 vein not angular; poisers tawny, with pale green tips. Length of the body 6 lines ; 

 of the wings 12 lines. 



Cyphomyia ornata, fern. 



Purpureo-cyanea, capite jlavo, antennis fulvis, pedibus piceis, alis cinereis ad cos- 

 tam fttscis. 



Body blight purplish-blue, clothed with very short hoary hairs : head bright yel- 

 low : eyes red ; all the facets very small : feelers tawny ; bristle black : legs pitchy ; 

 claws black ; foot-cushions tawny : wings gray, dark brown beneath the fore borders ; 

 wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, veiy strongly marked ; poisers pale yellow. Length of 

 the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



Para. 



Sargits jucundus, mas. 



Cyaneo-pwpureus, capite subtus pectoreque fulvis, abdnmine nigro basi subtus fulvo, 

 antennis fulvis, pedibus Jlavis, femoribus posticis piceis, alis cinereis fusco 

 variis. 



Head tawny in front and beneath : eyes pitchy ; all the facets very small : feelers 

 dark tawny; bristle black, very long and slender: chest bright purple, shining, tinged 



