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there is also a small narrow piceous brand on the fore border : wing- 

 ribs piceous ; veins black ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 

 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 

 a. ■ ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Tabanus anriflamma, n. s., fern. Lceti fulvus, thorace vittis tribus 

 fulvescentibus , abdomine nigro fasciato, pedibus fulvis, alis fiavis 

 maculis nonnullis ajncibus marginibusque posticis fuscis . 



Body very bright tawny : feelers and mouth of the same colour : 

 eyes piceous : chest with three dull tawny stripes ; the middle one 

 extremely broad : fore borders of abdominal segments black from 

 the second to the fifth ; the bands successively and rapidly decreas- 

 ing in breadth ; legs bright tawny : wings yellow, brown along the 

 hind borders and at the tips ; a few long narrow spots in the areolets 

 of the yellow part ; veins tawny, piceous in the brown part of the 

 wing; poisers bright tawny. Length of the body 10 lines; of the 

 wings 18 lines. 



a. Silhet. From Mr. Stainforth's collection. 



Tabanus chrysophilus, n. s., fem. Fulvus, aureo pilosus, thorace 

 fusco trivittato, pectoris disco ferrugineo, abdomine nigro apice 

 ferrugineo, segmentis fulvo fasciatis, pedibus ferrugineis, alisful- 

 vis, vittis apicibus marginibusque posticis sublimpidis. 



Body tawny : head clothed beneath with golden hairs : eyes 

 black : palpi bright ferruginous : sucker piceous : feelers ferrugi- 

 nous ; third joint bright tawny, long, curved, with no tooth nor 

 angle at the base, ferruginous at the tip : chest with three broad 

 dark brown stripes ; the side stripes interrupted ; disk of the breast 

 ferruginous : abdomen black, ferruginous at the tip ; hind borders 

 of the segments tawny, and adorned with broad fringes of golden 

 hairs : legs ferruginous ; hips tawny : wings bright tawny, nearly 

 colourless at the tips and along the hind borders; there are also 

 some narrow indistinct colourless stripes along the areolets, and two 

 more distinct stripes beneath the fore border; veins tawny, piceous 

 towards the tips of the wings ; poisers ferruginous ; their knobs 

 bright tawny. Length of the body 9 lines; of the wings 18 

 lines. 



Tabanus marocanus, Fabr. Syst. Antl. 93, 2. Latr. Cuv. Regn. 



Anim. nouv. edit. v. 476. T. taurinus, Meig. Dipt. ii. 42, 17, 



t. 13,/. 23. 

 a. Tangier. From Mr. Fraser's collection. 



