156 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Tabanus albipes, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. 364, 11. Syst. And. 95, 9. 

 Geoff. Ins. ii. 460, 3. Sehaf. Icon. t. 182,/. 2, 3. Latr. Gen. 

 Crust, iv. 283. Meig. Dipt. ii. 45, 20. Macq. Hist. Nat. 

 Dipt. i. 200, 10. T. gigas, Herbst. Gem. Nat. viii. 112, t. 342, 



a. South of France. From Dr. Leach's collection. 



Tabanus tarandinus, Linn. Faun. Suec. 1884. Gmel. Ed. Syst. 

 Nat. v. 2882, 7. Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 457, 8. Ent. Syst. iv. 364, 

 10. Syst. Antl. 95, 8. Fall. Dipt. Suec. 4, 2. Meig. Dipt. 

 ii. 44, 19. 



a. Torneo. From Mr. Walker's collection. 



Tabanus Tarandi, n. s., fern. Niger, thorace ferruyineo bimaculato, 

 abdomine nigro-fusco, fasciis dorso albis lateribusque flavis, an- 

 tennis pedibusque fulvis, alis fulvo-subcinereis. 



Represents T. Tarandinus of Europe. Body black : head 

 gray above, white and shining above the base of the feelers, clothed 

 beneath with tawny and brown hairs : mouth black ; palpi brown : 

 feelers bright tawny, brown at the base, black at the tips : chest with 

 a dull ferruginous spot on each side near the wing-ribs : abdomen 

 dark brown ; a white band on the hind border of each segment, one- 

 third of whose breadth is occupied on each side by a band of yellow 

 hairs ; bands on the underside yellow, and clothed with a few yel- 

 low hairs ; sides of the base of the abdomen, and sides of the chest 

 thinly clothed with black hairs : legs bright tawny, and clothed 

 with hairs of the same colour; hips and thighs dark brown, except- 

 ing the tips of the latter ; fore feet and tips of the fore shanks 

 black : wings slightly gray, tawny at the base, and along the fore 

 borders, and more slightly so along the borders of the veins ; wing- 

 ribs, veins, and poisers also tawny. Length of the body 8 lines ; of 

 the wings 16 lines. 



a St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay. Presented by 

 G. Barnston, Esq. 



b. Newfoundland. Presented by W. C. St. John, Esq. 



Tabanus flavipes? Wied. Auss. Zweif. i. 137, 40. 



Wiedmann describes T. flavipes as having black poisers, in this 

 insect they are tawny. 



a. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



Tabanus affinis, Kirby, North Amer. Zool. Ins. 313, 1. 

 a. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay. Presented by 

 G. Barnston, Esq. 



