152 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



the base : chest dull tawny, with three broad brown stripes : breast 

 pale tawny, rather thickly clothed with pale yellow hairs : abdomen 

 ferruginous; the hind borders of the segments and an indistinct 

 broad stripe along the back are paler ; the last segment is brown ; 

 legs piceous ; hips and thighs clothed with pale yellow hairs ; shanks 

 and feet clothed also with short black hairs, the former are tawny 

 with piceous tips : wings gray, tawny towards the base and along 

 the fore borders ; veins ferruginous, piceous towards the tips ; poi- 

 sers tawny, with bright yellow knobs. Length of the body 9 lines ; 

 of the wings W lines. 



a, Borneo. Presented by the Admiralty. 



TabanijS orientis, fern. Cinereus, capite cant, pectore fulvo, abdo- 

 mine ferugineo iqnce nigro, anlennis ferrugineis, pedibus ferru- 

 gineo-fulvis, femoribus cinereis, alls ferrugineo-cinereis. 



Head hoary, whitish beneath where it is clothed with white 

 hairs : eyes brassy : mouth piceous ; palpi tawny : feelers ferrugi- 

 nous, black towards the tips, with a slight angle on the base of the 

 third joint ; chest gray, slightly covered with tawny hairs ; sides and 

 breast tawny with a hoary bloom, and thinly clothed with hoary 

 hairs : abdomen ferruginous ; hind borders of the segments pale 

 tawny ; fourth segment with a large black spot on each side ; sixth 

 and seventh segments all black : legs gray ; shanks and tips of 

 thighs tawny ; feel and tips of shanks dark ferruginous ; fore feet 

 piceous: wings slightly gray, pale ferruginous at the base, on the 

 fore borders and along the veins ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous ; 

 poisers tawny. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Nepaul. 



Tabanus fulvimedius, n. s., fem. Cinereus, capite subtus pectoreque 

 canis, abdoiuinefulvo, basi apice vittaque nigru, (interims ferru- 

 gineis, pedibus nigro-cinereis, libiisfidvis, alls subcinereis. 



Head dull black, hoary beneath : mouth tawny ; sucker pi- 

 ceous : feelers ferruginous, black towards the tips ; angle on the 

 third joint very small ; eyes brassy : chest dark gray wi th three paler 

 stripes: breast hoary, thickly clothed with white hairs: abdomen 

 tawny, grayish black on the base of the first segment; a stripe on 

 the second and third segments, and the whole of the following seg- 

 ments grayish black, excepting their hind borders : legs grayish 

 black ; shanks tawny : wings pale gray, with a slight tawny tinge ; 

 wing-ribs and veins piceous ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 

 7 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 

 a. ? 



