﻿CONTRIBUTION 
  TO 
  KNOWLEDGE 
  OF 
  TABANIDAE 
  OF 
  PALESTINE. 
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  glistening, 
  yellowish 
  white 
  or 
  ochreous 
  hair 
  ; 
  pale 
  hair 
  on 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  in 
  (J 
  fairly 
  

   long 
  and 
  bushy 
  ; 
  distal 
  extremities 
  of 
  tibiae 
  and 
  upper 
  surfaces 
  of 
  tarsi 
  clothed 
  

   with 
  minute 
  black 
  hairs. 
  

  

  Near 
  Jerusalem, 
  May, 
  1918 
  (Captain 
  (acting 
  Lt.-Col.) 
  W. 
  J. 
  Dale, 
  O.B.E.,R.A.V.C). 
  

  

  The 
  species 
  characterised 
  above, 
  with 
  which 
  the 
  author 
  is 
  glad 
  to 
  have 
  the 
  oppor- 
  

   tunity 
  of 
  associating 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  its 
  discoverer 
  (A.D.V.S., 
  XXth 
  Corps, 
  1917-19), 
  

   is 
  not 
  closely 
  related 
  to 
  any 
  of 
  its 
  congeners 
  known 
  to 
  the 
  writer, 
  and, 
  owing 
  to 
  the 
  

   ochraceous-tawny 
  coloration 
  of 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  proximal 
  two-thirds 
  of 
  the 
  costal 
  

   border 
  of 
  the 
  wing, 
  is 
  readily 
  distinguishable 
  from 
  all 
  other 
  species 
  described 
  or 
  

   mentioned 
  in 
  the 
  present 
  paper. 
  

  

  