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  ERNEST 
  E. 
  AUSTEN. 
  

  

  glistening 
  whitish 
  hairs, 
  mixed 
  with 
  minute 
  black 
  hairs 
  ; 
  first 
  joint 
  of 
  antennae 
  

   light 
  drab 
  or 
  light 
  pinkish 
  cinnamon 
  pollinose, 
  moderately 
  swollen 
  towards 
  distal 
  

   extremity, 
  with 
  upper 
  distal 
  angle 
  considerably 
  produced 
  and 
  partly 
  embracing 
  

   second 
  joint, 
  clothed 
  on 
  outer 
  side 
  with 
  glistening 
  yellowish 
  hairs 
  and 
  with 
  minute 
  

   black 
  hairs 
  on 
  upper 
  border 
  and 
  towards 
  upper 
  distal 
  angle, 
  second 
  joint 
  of 
  antennae 
  

   light 
  drab 
  pollinose, 
  with 
  distal 
  margin 
  fringed 
  on 
  outer 
  side 
  below 
  with 
  minute 
  

   glistening 
  yellowish 
  hairs 
  and 
  upper 
  distal 
  angle 
  moderately 
  or 
  considerably 
  

   produced, 
  third 
  joint 
  cinnamon- 
  or 
  orange-cinnamon-coloured 
  (annulate 
  portion 
  

   sometimes 
  darker, 
  dark 
  brown 
  or 
  blackish 
  brown), 
  expanded 
  portion 
  of 
  moderate 
  

   depth 
  or 
  rather 
  narrow, 
  with 
  blunt 
  but 
  prominent 
  angle 
  on 
  upper 
  margin 
  near 
  

   base. 
  Thorax 
  : 
  dorsum 
  clothed 
  with 
  minute, 
  appressed, 
  yellowish 
  or 
  whitish, 
  

   silky 
  hairs, 
  yellowish 
  tinge 
  in 
  the 
  hair 
  being 
  more 
  apparent 
  in 
  interspace 
  between 
  

   posterior 
  ends 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  admedian 
  pale 
  olive-grey 
  pollinose 
  stripes 
  (median 
  pale 
  

   olive-grey 
  stripe 
  becoming 
  obsolete 
  at 
  about 
  level 
  of 
  transverse 
  suture) 
  ; 
  lateral 
  

   borders 
  of 
  dorsum 
  pallid 
  neutral 
  grey 
  or 
  pale 
  smoke 
  grey 
  pollinose, 
  swelling 
  in 
  

  

  Fig. 
  11. 
  Tabanus 
  accensus, 
  Austen, 
  $. 
  X 
  4. 
  

  

  depression 
  at 
  each 
  end 
  of 
  transverse 
  suture 
  drab-grey, 
  clothed 
  below 
  with 
  long, 
  

   dusky 
  or 
  blackish 
  hair, 
  and 
  above 
  with 
  shorter 
  yellowish 
  hair 
  ; 
  pleurae 
  and 
  pectus 
  

   pale 
  smoke 
  grey 
  pollinose, 
  clothed 
  with 
  whitish 
  hair. 
  Abdomen 
  : 
  middle 
  line 
  of 
  

   dorsum, 
  from 
  first 
  (visible) 
  to 
  sixth 
  segments 
  inclusive, 
  occupied 
  by 
  a 
  longitudinal 
  

   series 
  of 
  anteriorly 
  directed, 
  truncated, 
  smoke 
  grey 
  or 
  pale 
  pinkish 
  buff 
  triangles 
  ; 
  

   blackish 
  brown 
  marks, 
  except 
  in 
  some 
  specimens 
  admedian 
  ones 
  on 
  first 
  tergite, 
  

   not 
  reaching 
  hind 
  borders 
  of 
  segments 
  ; 
  in 
  some 
  cases, 
  on 
  each 
  segment 
  from 
  

   third 
  or 
  fourth 
  to 
  sixth 
  inclusive, 
  the 
  ends 
  of 
  each 
  pair 
  of 
  blackish 
  brown 
  marks 
  

   are 
  fused 
  together 
  posteriorly 
  in 
  such 
  a 
  way 
  as 
  to 
  enclose 
  intervening 
  smoke 
  grey 
  

   or 
  pale 
  pinkish 
  buff 
  area, 
  which 
  then 
  assumes 
  appearance 
  of 
  an 
  elliptical 
  oval, 
  

   more 
  or 
  less 
  oblique 
  spot 
  ; 
  pale 
  areas 
  of 
  dorsum, 
  including 
  hind 
  borders 
  of 
  second 
  

   to 
  sixth 
  tergites 
  inclusive, 
  clothed 
  with 
  minute, 
  appressed, 
  glistening, 
  pale 
  yellowish 
  

   or 
  pale 
  ochreous 
  hairs, 
  blackish 
  brown 
  areas 
  clothed 
  with 
  minute, 
  appressed, 
  black 
  

   or 
  blackish 
  hairs 
  ; 
  seventh 
  tergite, 
  except 
  lateral 
  and 
  hind 
  borders, 
  dark 
  brown, 
  

   smoke 
  grey 
  pollinose 
  at 
  base, 
  clothed 
  with 
  fine, 
  fairly 
  long, 
  curving, 
  black 
  or 
  blackish 
  

  

  