BOMBYLIADiE TABANID7E. 313 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, thickly covered above with yellowish, soft, but erect hairs ; underneath the hairs are 

 whiter, but those on the breast, at the origin of the legs, are black : wings with the anterior half 

 longitudinally black-brown, the dark colour on the inner side being sinuated or uneven ; the pos- 

 terior half of the wings is transparent with black nervures : the legs are long, and pale-yellow ; but 

 the tarsi are reddish-black at the extremity : the eyes are triangular. 



(439) 2. Bombylius pygmjeus. Pigmy Bombylius. 



Bombylias pygmaeus. Fab. Ent. Si/st. iv, 411, 19; Syst. Antl. 135, 32. Wied. Dipt. Ex. 175, 29. 



Length of the body, 5 including the proboscis, 5 7 l; 

 ° I excluding the proboscis, 3 ) 



Expansion of the wings 9 lines. 



Taken with the preceding. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, hairy. Hair below the eyes black ; eyes meeting at the vertex ; behind the eyes 

 the hairs are gray ; those on the thorax are tawny or reddish with a white tuft on each side at the 

 anterior and posterior margin : the wings are longitudinally dusky at the anterior margin ; more than 

 the posterior half is hyaline, with several scattered black dots, the interior ones being the largest : 

 the legs are testaceous, but black at the tip : the abdomen is covered by reddish hairs with dark 



ones intermingled ; those at the anus are whitish. 



Family TABANIDiE. Tabanidans. 



CCI. Genus TABANUS. Linn. 



(440) 1. * Tabanus affinis. Kindred Tabanus. 



T. (affinis J niyer ; pruboscide, palpis, antennis basi, abdomineque segmentis tribus primis utrinque, quarto pmictis duobus dorsa- 



libus, tibiisque quatnor poslicis, rvfis. 

 Kindred Tabanus, black, with the proboscis, feelers, antennae at the base, abdomen with the three first segments on each 



side, two dorsal dots of the fourth, and four posterior tibiae, red. 



Length of the body 7| lines. 



Taken with the preceding. 



