188 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



hairs beneath : eyes coppery, handed : palpi and feelers tawny ; 

 sucker piceous : chest and breast ferruginous ; chest with four 

 tawny stripes ; breast hoary here and there : abdomen tawny, white 

 at the base beneath, piceous towards the tip ; hind borders of the 

 segments rather paler: legs ferruginous; tips of the feet darker: 

 wings with a slight tawny tinge, especially at the base and along 

 the fore borders ; veins piceous, ferruginous at the base ; cross-veins 

 clouded with brown ; brands dull yellow, small and narrow, brown 

 at the base ; poisers tawny, with ferruginous knobs. Length of the 

 body 4 lines ; of the wings 8| lines. 



a. West Indies. 



Tabanus lucidulus, n. s., mas. Flavo-fuscus, capite abdomineque 

 fulvis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus anticis fuscis, alls flavo-fuscis 

 maculis quinque limpidis. 



Head tawny beneath : eyes coppery : palpi tawny ; sucker pi- 

 ceous : feelers ferruginous ; first and second joints beset with short 

 black bristles ; third joint curved, piceous with a slight angle near 

 the base : chest and breast yellowish brown : abdomen dull tawny ; 

 hind borders of the segments pale tawny : legs tawny ; fore thighs 

 brown : wings pale yellowish brown, with about five colourless spots 

 in the areolets : veins ferruginous ; brands brown, very narrow ; 

 poisers pale tawny, with brown knobs. Length of the body b\ lines ; 

 of the wings 1 1 lines. 



a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



Tabanus brevior, n. s., fern. Fuscus, capite fulvo subtus cano, 

 pectore cano, abdomine ferrugineo maculis utrinque apiceque 

 fuscis, segmentis fulvo fasciatis, pedibus cinereis, tibiis fulvis, 

 alis subcinereis. 



Head dull tawny, shining and brown, with a tawny border in 

 front between the eyes, hoary and clothed with hoary hairs beneath : 

 eyes piceous : palpi tawny, as long as the sucker which is piceous 

 and rather short : feelers ferruginous ; first and second joints 

 clothed with black bristles ; third joint rather large, black at the tip, 

 with an angle near the base : chest brown, clothed with tawny hairs : 

 breast hoary, clothed with white hairs : abdomen ferruginous, with 

 a small brown spot on each segment ; the latter segments nearly all 

 brown ; hind borders of the segments pale tawny : legs dark gray, 

 clothed with short black hairs ; shanks and base of the feet dark 

 tawny : wings slightly gray ; veins piceous, ferruginous towards the 



