166 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



tinct yellowish spot; veins and poisers piceous. Length of the 

 body 7 lines ; of the wings 15 lines. 



a. Brazil. Presented by Sir C. Stewart, 



Tabanus fasciatus, Fair. Syst. Ent. 788, 3. Ent, Syst. iv. 364, 8. 



Syst. And. 94, 6. Wied. Dipt. Exot. i. 73, 21. Auss. Zweif. 



i. 133, 35. 

 a. West Africa ? 



Tabanus maculatissimus, Macq. Dipt. Exot. i. 121, 3. 

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



Tabanus fuscipennis, Wied. Auss. Zweif. i. 179, 102. 

 a. Brazil. Presented by Mrs. J. P. G. Smith. 



Tabanus dives, n. s., fern, Ferrugineus, capite supra rufo-fusco, 

 antice argenteo micans, abdominis segmentis albido fasciatis, 

 pedibus piceis, tibiis argenteo pilosis, alis cinereo-fuscis, basi 

 marginibusque anticis ferrugineis. 



Head above reddish brown, ferruginous and adorned with sil- 

 very lustre in front: eyes piceous : palpi and sucker piceous : feelers 

 dull ferruginous ; first and second joints clothed with black hairs ; 

 third joint long, curved, and having a long curved horn at the base : 

 chest dark ferruginous, clothed with black short hairs, paler on each 

 side: breast pale ferruginous: abdomen ferruginous, very thick, 

 clothed with ferruginous hairs ; hind borders of the segments whit- 

 ish and adorned with golden hairs ; these bands are broader beneath, 

 and there the second segment is clothed with black hairs : legs dark 

 piceous, thickly clothed with black hairs ; hips and trochanters fer- 

 ruginous ; a tuft of silvery hairs at the base of each shank : wings 

 grayish brown, ferruginous at the base and along the fore borders ; 

 veins ferruginous, piceous at the tips ; poisers piceous ; knobs bright 

 pale yellow, tawny at the base. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the 

 wings 18 lines. 



Tabanus Megerlei, Wied. Auss. Zweif. i. 132, 32. 

 a. ? 



4 Tabanus notabilis, n. s., fem. Fuscus, capite flavo-fusco subtus 

 cano, thorace cano quinquevittato, lateribus fulvis, abdomine 

 ferrugineo, piceo univittato fulvoque bivittato, pedibus ferrugi- 

 neis, alis subcinereis, basi margine antico venisque transversis 

 fuscis. 



Head yellowish brown, shining in front at the base of the feel- 

 ers, hoary and clothed with pale tawny hairs beneath : eyes piceous : 



