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  MAJOR 
  E. 
  E. 
  AUSTEN. 
  

  

  Haematopota 
  sewelli, 
  Austen. 
  

  

  Haematopota 
  sewelli, 
  Austen, 
  Bull. 
  Ent. 
  Res., 
  x, 
  p. 
  281, 
  figs. 
  2, 
  3 
  (April 
  1920). 
  

  

  Two 
  <J 
  $, 
  Wadi 
  Hamam, 
  Galilee, 
  7.iv. 
  1922 
  (P. 
  A. 
  Buxton) 
  ; 
  one 
  $, 
  Nahr 
  Rubin 
  

   (coastal 
  zone), 
  25.iv.1921 
  (I.Aharoni) 
  ; 
  eleven 
  $ 
  $, 
  Khedeira 
  (coastal 
  zone), 
  30. 
  v. 
  1921 
  

   (P. 
  A. 
  Buxton). 
  

  

  Haematopota 
  innominata, 
  Austen. 
  

  

  Haematopota 
  innominata, 
  Austen, 
  Bull. 
  Ent. 
  Res., 
  x, 
  p. 
  290, 
  fig. 
  4, 
  c 
  (April 
  1920). 
  

  

  One 
  $, 
  Khedeira 
  (coastal 
  zone), 
  30.V.1921, 
  and 
  nine 
  $ 
  $, 
  Akka 
  (coastal 
  zone), 
  

   10.vi.1921 
  (P. 
  A. 
  Buxton). 
  

  

  Genus 
  Tabanus, 
  Linn. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  author's 
  previous 
  paper, 
  to 
  which 
  reference 
  has 
  already 
  been 
  made, 
  

   16 
  species 
  of 
  Tabanus 
  were 
  included. 
  Two 
  additions 
  — 
  T. 
  agnitionalis, 
  sp. 
  n., 
  and 
  

   T. 
  (Ochrops) 
  kerteszi, 
  Szil. 
  — 
  to 
  the 
  list 
  of 
  these 
  are 
  made 
  in 
  the 
  following 
  pages, 
  so 
  

   that 
  the 
  total 
  number 
  of 
  species 
  of 
  Tabanus 
  now 
  known 
  to 
  occur 
  in 
  Palestine 
  is 
  raised 
  

   to 
  18. 
  

  

  Tabanus 
  agnitionalis, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  (rig. 
  4). 
  

  

  $. 
  — 
  Length 
  (one 
  specimen) 
  15-5 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  of 
  head 
  5 
  mm. 
  

   at 
  vertex 
  0-8 
  mm. 
  ; 
  length 
  of 
  wing 
  13-6 
  mm. 
  

  

  width 
  of 
  front 
  

  

  Fig. 
  4. 
  Head 
  of 
  Tabanus 
  agnitionalis, 
  Austen, 
  $ 
  : 
  a, 
  lateral 
  view 
  ; 
  b, 
  viewed 
  from 
  in 
  front 
  ; 
  X 
  10.. 
  

  

  Hairy-eyed, 
  medium-sized 
  species, 
  with 
  large, 
  shining, 
  cinnamon-brown 
  lower- 
  

   frontal 
  callus 
  in 
  $ 
  ; 
  dorsum 
  of 
  thorax 
  dark 
  neutral 
  grey, 
  conspicuously 
  striped 
  {except 
  

   scutellum) 
  with 
  lighter 
  grey 
  ; 
  dorsum 
  of 
  abdomen 
  beyond 
  first 
  (visible) 
  segment 
  for 
  most 
  

   part 
  cinnamon-buff, 
  but 
  having 
  the 
  last 
  three 
  segments 
  mainly 
  infuscated 
  — 
  deep 
  greyish- 
  

   olive 
  pollinose, 
  and 
  a 
  large, 
  quadrate 
  median 
  blotch 
  of 
  same 
  colour 
  on 
  each 
  segment 
  

   from 
  second 
  to 
  fourth 
  inclusive 
  ; 
  legs, 
  except 
  coxae, 
  trochanters, 
  extreme 
  bases 
  of 
  femora 
  

   and 
  at 
  least 
  distal 
  extremities 
  of 
  tarsi, 
  cinnamon-coloured. 
  

  

  Head 
  : 
  front 
  in 
  $ 
  deep 
  olive-buff 
  pollinose 
  (slightly 
  darker 
  — 
  light 
  brownish-olive 
  — 
  

   in 
  region 
  of 
  upper 
  callus), 
  densely 
  clothed 
  above 
  and 
  at 
  sides 
  of 
  upper 
  portion 
  of 
  lower 
  

   callus 
  with 
  short, 
  glistening 
  Naples 
  yeUow 
  hair, 
  which 
  towards 
  vertex 
  becomes 
  

   longer, 
  paler 
  and 
  sparser 
  ; 
  subcallus 
  in 
  $, 
  face, 
  jowls 
  and 
  occiput 
  smoke-grey 
  

  

  