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palpi pale yellow, beset with short black bristles : sucker piceous ; 

 feelers tawny; first and second joints clothed with black hairs; 

 third bright ferruginous, curved, black towards the tip, with an an- 

 gle near the base : chest brown, clothed with tawny hairs, having 

 five slender hoary stripes; sides tawny: breast paler brown and 

 more thickly clothed with tawny hairs : abdomen pale ferruginous, 

 thinly clothed with tawny hairs, having an interrupted pale tawny 

 stripe on each side, and between them a piceous stripe, which is 

 widened here and there, and more especially towards the tip, where 

 it occupies the whole back : legs ferruginous ; thighs at the base 

 and hips gray : wings very slightly gray, tinged with brown at the 

 base and along the fore borders, and on each of the cross veins ; 

 veins tawny, piceous towards the tips ; poisers dull tawny, tips of 

 their knobs pale yellow Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 

 12 lines. 



a. New York. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



b. Georgia. From Mr. Abbot's collection. 



c. ? 



Tabanus cinereus, n. s., fern. Cinereo-niger, capite abdomineque 

 canesceniibus, thorace cano quadrivittato (?), pedibus nigris, alls 

 cinereis, basi marginibusque anticis fuscis, venis transversis piceo 

 nebulosis. 



Body grayish black, dull : head somewhat hoary, clothed be- 

 neath with hoary hairs : eyes and feelers black : lancets piceous : 

 chest with four (?) indistinct hoary stripes : abdomen rather hoary 

 at the base and beneath : legs black : wings very dark gray, brown 

 at the base and along the fore borders ; cross-veins clouded with 

 dark piceous colour ; veins and poisers piceous. Length of the body 

 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. Western Australia. From Mr. Clifton's collection. 



Tabanus monogramina, Wied. Auss. Zweif. i. 150, 61. 

 a. Brazil ? 



Tabanus depressus, n. s., fem. Fuscus, capite nigro subtus cano 

 thoracis lateribus ferrugineis, abdomine fulvo fasciato et utrin- 

 que maculato, pedibus cinereis, tibiis tarsisque ferrugineis, alis 

 subcinereis, basi margineque antico subfuscis. 



Head black, with a narrow tawny border on each side between 

 the eyes, hoary and thickly clothed with long pale yellow hairs be- 

 neath : palpi and lancets tawny, the former clothed with short black 

 bristles ; sucker piceous : feelers dark tawny ; first and second joints 

 clothed with short black hairs; third joint ferruginous, curved, 



