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five gray stripes: breast varied with tawny and black: abdomen 

 black, ferruginous towards the base, and having three tawny stripes ; 

 under-side ferruginous, pale tawny on each side, black at the tip : 

 legs black; thighs tawny; feet piceous : wings very slightly gray ; 

 veins piceous ; poisers pale yellow. Length of the body 9 lines ; of 

 the wings 16 lines. 



a. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



Tabanus rubicundus, n. s., fem. Rufus, thorace fusco quinque- 

 vittato, abdomine nigro quadrivittato, pedibus nigris, tibiis rufis, 

 alis limpidis. 



Body red : head clothed beneath with yellow hairs : eyes pi- 

 ceous : mouth pale yellow; sucker and feelers black: chest with 

 five brown stripes : breast also striped with brown : abdomen with 

 four black stripes, of which the middle two are connected together 

 on the fore borders of several segments ; under-side black at the 

 tip : legs black ; shanks red, clothed with white down : wings co- 

 lourless ; veins piceous ; poisers bright pale tawny. Length of the 

 body 8 J lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. South Africa. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



Tabanus posticus, Wied. Auss. Ziveif. i. 152, 64. 

 a. New Holland. Presented by R. Brown, Esq. 



Tabanus inscitus, n. s., fem. Fulviis, capite subtus albido, thorace 

 fusco quinquevittato, pectore cano, abdomine vitta fiava fusco 

 cireumdata, apice nigro, pedibus cinereo-fulvis, femoribus tar- 

 sisque anticis niyris, alis cinereis. 



Head tawny, nearly white, and clothed with pale yellow hairs 

 beneath : eyes green and purple : mouth pale tawny ; sucker black : 

 feelers ferruginous, with piceous tips; third joint with an angle at 

 the base : chest dull tawny, with five brown stripes, the middle one 

 broad, the two outer short and slender : breast hoary, clothed with 

 pale yellow hairs : abdomen bright tawny ; hind borders of the seg- 

 ments pale tawny ; three last segments black, their sides and hind 

 borders pale tawny ; a broad brown stripe along the whole length of 

 the abdomen includes a pale yellow stripe, which extends from the 

 third to the sixth segment ; under-side tawny, with a short broad 

 piceous stripe at the tip : legs gray ; shanks tawny ; feet darker 

 tawny ; fore legs black ; fore shanks tawny, with piceous tips : wings 

 gray ; veins black, piceous at the base and along the fore borders; 

 brands brown, narrow and long; poisers tawny, with yellow knobs. 

 Length of the body 7£ lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 

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



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