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  EENEST 
  E. 
  AUSTEN. 
  

  

  Sinia, 
  recorded 
  above, 
  would 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  only 
  the 
  second 
  individual 
  of 
  Tabanus 
  

   mendicus 
  met 
  with 
  up 
  to 
  the 
  present 
  time. 
  It 
  is 
  perhaps 
  worth 
  mentioning 
  

   that, 
  when 
  viewed 
  from 
  the 
  side, 
  the 
  insect 
  appears 
  to 
  have 
  a 
  broad, 
  shining, 
  

   black 
  band 
  across 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen, 
  owing 
  to 
  the 
  third 
  and 
  fourth 
  

   segments 
  being 
  clothed 
  mainly 
  with 
  black 
  hair, 
  and 
  thus 
  contrasting 
  with 
  the 
  

   base 
  and 
  distal 
  extremity, 
  on 
  which 
  the 
  hairy 
  covering 
  is 
  honey-yellow 
  or 
  

   cinnamon-buff, 
  while 
  the 
  contrast 
  is 
  heightened 
  by 
  the 
  ground-colour 
  of 
  the 
  

   first 
  two 
  segments 
  being 
  neutral 
  grey 
  or 
  olive 
  grey 
  pollinose. 
  

  

  6. 
  Tabanus 
  lunatus, 
  Fabr. 
  

  

  Jaffa 
  district 
  and 
  Jerusalem: 
  three 
  5$, 
  near 
  Mulebbis, 
  14.V.1918, 
  caught 
  by 
  

   Lt.-Col. 
  E. 
  P. 
  Sewell, 
  C.M.G., 
  D.S.O., 
  RA.M.C, 
  from 
  a 
  light 
  Ford 
  motor-car 
  

   (which 
  the 
  insects 
  were 
  following), 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  and 
  under 
  the 
  same 
  

   circumstances 
  as 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  Tabanus 
  insecutor, 
  Austen, 
  see 
  p. 
  298 
  (car 
  proceeding 
  

   at 
  20 
  miles 
  an 
  hour 
  across 
  a 
  grassy 
  plain 
  ; 
  several 
  specimens 
  seen) 
  ; 
  a 
  fourth 
  $, 
  

   in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  collection, 
  bearing 
  the 
  label 
  "Jerusalem. 
  A. 
  Bottcher, 
  

   Berlin," 
  received 
  in 
  1912 
  from 
  the 
  Zoologisches 
  Museum, 
  Berlin, 
  and 
  presented 
  

   by 
  Miss 
  G. 
  Kicardo. 
  

  

  The 
  four 
  specimens 
  enumerated 
  above, 
  which 
  are 
  the 
  only 
  representatives 
  of 
  

   this 
  small 
  or 
  medium-sized, 
  greyish-olive-coloured, 
  hairy-eyed 
  species 
  at 
  present 
  

   contained 
  in 
  the 
  National 
  Collection, 
  show 
  that, 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  sex 
  at 
  any 
  rate, 
  

   Tabanus 
  lunatus, 
  Fabr., 
  is 
  subject 
  to 
  considerable 
  variation 
  in 
  size, 
  the 
  three 
  

   examples 
  brought 
  home 
  by 
  the 
  writer 
  measuring 
  from 
  10'75 
  to 
  11*75 
  mm. 
  in 
  length, 
  

   as 
  compared 
  with 
  13*2 
  mm. 
  in 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  the 
  $ 
  labelled 
  " 
  Jerusalem." 
  

  

  The 
  eyes 
  of 
  the 
  £ 
  of 
  T. 
  lunatus, 
  which 
  are 
  thickly 
  clothed 
  with 
  short, 
  fine, 
  whitish 
  

   hair, 
  are 
  bronze-green 
  in 
  life, 
  with 
  three 
  narrow, 
  purplish 
  brown, 
  transverse 
  bands. 
  

  

  The 
  description 
  and 
  figures 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  palpus 
  of 
  the 
  $ 
  given 
  by 
  Brauer 
  

   (Denkschr. 
  k. 
  AJcad. 
  Wiss., 
  Bd. 
  xlii, 
  1880, 
  p. 
  172, 
  Taf. 
  iii, 
  figs. 
  34) 
  — 
  who 
  records 
  

   the 
  species 
  as 
  occurring 
  in 
  Dalmatia, 
  Italy, 
  Sicily, 
  Spain, 
  Asia 
  Minor 
  and 
  the 
  

   Caucasus 
  — 
  are 
  somewhat 
  misleading, 
  and 
  since 
  in 
  the 
  preceding 
  synoptic 
  table 
  

   (I. 
  cit., 
  p. 
  134) 
  the 
  upper 
  frontal 
  callus 
  is 
  characterised 
  as 
  " 
  linear, 
  connected 
  with 
  

   the 
  lower 
  callus 
  . 
  . 
  ."it 
  would 
  be 
  difficult 
  if 
  not 
  impossible 
  to 
  determine 
  female 
  

   specimens 
  of 
  T< 
  lunatus 
  by 
  means 
  of 
  the 
  Austrian 
  author's 
  well-known 
  work 
  on 
  

   " 
  The 
  European 
  Species 
  of 
  the 
  Genus 
  Tabanus." 
  A 
  careful 
  examination 
  and 
  

   comparison 
  of 
  the 
  specimens 
  brought 
  back 
  by 
  the 
  present 
  writer 
  shows 
  that 
  the 
  

   upper 
  frontal 
  callus 
  in 
  the 
  $ 
  of 
  T. 
  lunatus, 
  instead 
  of 
  being 
  " 
  elongate, 
  more 
  or 
  

   less 
  linear 
  or 
  fusiform 
  " 
  (Brauer), 
  is 
  roughly 
  oval 
  or 
  elliptical 
  oval 
  in 
  outline, 
  and 
  

   sometimes 
  much 
  larger 
  than 
  the 
  lower 
  callus, 
  with 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  connected 
  ; 
  also 
  

   that 
  the 
  terminal 
  segment 
  of 
  the 
  palpus 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  sex 
  is 
  acuminate, 
  and 
  only 
  

   moderately 
  swollen 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  — 
  much 
  less 
  so 
  than 
  would 
  be 
  imagined 
  from 
  

   Brauer's 
  description 
  and 
  figure. 
  The 
  sharp 
  colour-contrast 
  in 
  the 
  third 
  joint 
  of 
  

   the 
  antenna, 
  owing 
  to 
  the 
  expanded 
  portion 
  being 
  cinnamon-rufous 
  and 
  the 
  annulate 
  

   portion 
  dark 
  seal-brown 
  or 
  black, 
  is 
  very 
  noticeable. 
  

  

  7. 
  Tabanus 
  nemoralis, 
  Mg. 
  

  

  Two 
  ??, 
  Mount 
  of 
  Olives, 
  20.iv.1918 
  (E.E.A.), 
  and 
  4.V.1918 
  (Captain 
  {acting 
  

   Li.-CM.) 
  W. 
  J. 
  Dale, 
  O.B.E., 
  R.A.V.C.), 
  both 
  specimens 
  taken 
  " 
  on 
  ma 
  i." 
  

  

  