154 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Tabanus indicus, Fab. St/st. Antl. 103,48. Wied. Dipt, Exot. i. 



75, 26. Auss. Ziveif. i. 144, 53. 

 a. Nepaul. From the Hardwicke bequest. 



Tabanus leucopliilus, n. s., fern. Ferruyineus, capite albo, thorace 

 cano quinquevittato, abdomine Jlavo-fusco maeidis fiavis tri- 

 vittato, sublus fusco univittato, pedibus ferruyineis, tibiis flavis, 

 alis albis. 



Head white, with a shining* ferruginous spot between the eyes, 

 thickly clothed with white hairs beneath : eyes bronze : palpi yel- 

 lowish white ; sucker ferruginous: feelers tawny ; third joint ferru- 

 ginous, curved, with an angle at the base : chest and breast ferru- 

 ginous ; chest witli five hoary stripes: shoulders bright tawny; 

 breast clothed with yellow hairs: abdomen yellowish brown, clothed 

 with short yellow hairs, and adorned with three rows of pale yellow 

 triangular spots ; a broad dark brown stripe on the underside : legs 

 ferruginous ; shanks yellow, with ferruginous tips : wings white ; 

 veins yellow, tawny at the base ; poisers yellow. Length of the 

 body 8 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. New Holland. 



Tabanus rubidus, Wied. Dipt. Exot. i. 69, 14. Auss. Zweif. 



i. 127, 25. 

 a. East Indies. From Archdeacon Clerk's collection. 



Tabanus amabilis, n. s., fern. Fuscus, thoracis vittis quinque pec- 

 toreque caiiis, capite albo, abdomine macidis albis triviitato^ 

 ventre fidvo, antennis tarshque niyris, femoribus canis, tibiis 

 fulvis, alis piceo quadrimacidatis. 



Head white and thickly clothed beneath with snow-white hairs: 

 eyes coppery : mouth black ; palpi pale yellow : feelers black, ferru- 

 ginous at the base ; third joint slightly curved, with a very small 

 horn at the base : chest brown, with five hoary stripes ; sides tawny; 

 breast hoary, thickly clothed with white hairs: back of abdomen 

 clear yellowish brown, with three rows of white spots ; side spots el- 

 liptical, oblique, decreasing in size on each successive segmeut from 

 the base to the tip; middle spots triangular, that on the first seg- 

 ment is nearly round, and is connected with the second spot, which 

 is the largest ; the third spot is almost obsolete ; the fourth and the 

 fifth are of moderate size ; the sixth and the seventh are very small, 

 and the latter is hardly visible; underside tawny, with a broad 

 white stripe on each side: legs pubescent; hips and thighs hoary; 

 shanks bright tawny : feet and tips of shanks black : wings colour- 

 less, with four piceous spots formed by the clouded cross-veins ; 





