184 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Tab anus insularis, n. s., fern. Fulvus, abdomine ferrugineo fulvo 

 univittato, pedibus ferrugineis, femoribus basi fusco-fulvis, alis 

 limpidis basi marginibusque anticis fulvis. 



Head bright tawny, clothed beneath with yellow hairs : eyes 

 red : palpi tawny ; lancets ferruginous : sucker piceous : feelers 

 tawny ; third joint wanting : chest and breast dull tawny, brown 

 when the above colour is effaced ; their sides clothed with yellow 

 hairs: abdomen very bright ferruginous, with a very broad dull 

 tawny stripe, which is interrupted on the hind border of each seg- 

 ment, and does not extend beyond the base of the abdomen on the 

 under-side: legs ferruginous, clothed with ferruginous hairs ; hips 

 and base of thighs dull dark tawny or almost brown : wings colour- 

 less, tawny at the base and along ihe fore borders ; veins tawny, pi- 

 ceous towards the tips ; brands dark tawny, very narrow ; poisers 

 tawny, with bright yellow knobs. Length of the body 6 lines ; of 

 the wings 12 lines. 



a. Sandwich Islands. Presented by Capt. Beechey. 



Tabanus obliquemaculatus, Macq, Dipt. Exot. i. 123, 4. 

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



Tabanus tagniatus, Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 207, 35. 

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



Tabanus stigma, n. s., fem. Fuscus, capite subtus albo, abdomine 

 fasciis fulvis, subtus basi fulvo, antennis pedibusque fulvis, tar- 

 sis obscurioribus, alis limpidis. 



Head brown, dark tawny in front, white beneath, where it is 

 thickly clothed with yellowish white hairs : eyes piceous : mouth 

 and feelers tawny ; sucker piceous: chest and breast dark brown, 

 clothed with yellowish white hairs : abdomen brown : hind borders 

 of the segments tawny and clothed with yellow hairs ; under-side 

 tawny for more than half its length from the base : legs tawny ; feet 

 darker : wings colourless ; veins piceous, tawny towards the base and 

 along the fore borders ; brands large, piceous ; poisers tawny. 

 Length of the body 4| lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



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



Tabanus lativitta, n. s. Fulvus, capite subtus albo, thorace vittato (?), 

 pectore cano, abdomine fusco vittis duabus fasciisqne ventreque 

 fulvis, pedibus piceis fulvo et ferrugineo variis, alis cinereis, 

 marginibus anticis subfuscis. 



Head tawny, with a shining piceous spot in front between the 

 eyes, white and thickly clothed with long white hairs beneath : palpi 



