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Tabanus leucoinelas, n. s., feni. Niger, subtus albo hirtus, abdomi- 

 nis (ateribus maculis ferrugineis, pedibus nigris, tibiis fulvis, 

 tarsis ferrugineis, alis limpidis. 



Head black, with a few shining piceous intervals between the 

 eyes, clothed behind with black hairs, and more thickly beneath 

 with white hairs: palpi tawny; sucker piceous: feelers red; first 

 and second joints clothed with black hairs ; third joint black, red at 

 the base, where it is widened and forms an angle : chest and breast 

 black, the former clothed with tawny hairs, the latter more thickly 

 with white hairs : abdomen black ; a large ferruginous spot on each 

 side of the segments from the first to the third ; these segments be- 

 neath are more generally ferruginous : legs black ; hips and thighs 

 clothed with white hairs ; shanks tawny, darker towards the tips, 

 clothed with black and white hairs ; feet ferruginous, clothed with 

 ferruginous hairs ; their tips and the fore feet piceous : wings co- 



, lourless ; veins tawny, piceous towards the tips ; brands yellowish 

 brown, small and slender ; poisers piceous, with ferruginous knobs. 



' Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



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



Tabanus patulus, n. s., fem. Fuscus, capite fulvo, subtus albo, ab- 

 domine subtus cano, pedibus ferrugineis, femoribus einereis, alis 

 cinereis basi marginibusque anticis fuscis. 



Head dull pale tawny, white and thickly clothed with white 

 hairs beneath ; front with a dull brown oblong spot ; behind this 

 there is a small shining brown spot, and beyond the latter a larger 

 black shining spot : eyes cupreous : palpi yellow, clothed with pale 

 yellow hairs ; sucker piceous : feelers black ; first and second joints 

 clothed with black hairs ; third joint curved, red at the base, where 

 it is widened and forms an acute angle or a short horn : chest 

 brown, clothed with tawny hairs : breast paler, more thickly clothed 

 with white hairs : abdomen dark brown above, hoary beneath ; hind 

 borders of the segments clothed with pale tawny hairs : legs ferru- 

 ginous ; thighs gray : wings gray, brown at the base and along the 

 fore borders ; veins piceous, clouded with brown except at the tips ; 

 poisers ferruginous, knobs almost brown at the base. Length of the 

 body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



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



Tabanus Sarpa, White, Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror. 



b. New Zealand. From Mr. Pelerin's collection. 



Tabanus Oplus, White, Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror. 

 a. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. A. Sinclair. 



