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PLATE DLXIV. 



TABANUS NIGER. 



BLACK TABANUS. 



DIPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth with a ftraight exferted membranaceous probofcis, terminated 

 in two equal lips: fucker projecting, exferted, and placed in a groove 

 on the back of the probofcis, with a fingle-valved fheath and five 

 briftles : feelers two, equal, clavate, and ending in a point : antennae 

 {hort, approximate, cylindrical, with an elevated tooth at the bafe. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Tabanus Niger. Black : eyes filky green, with the anterior mar- 

 gin and three bands of purple. 



A new and very curious fpecies, lately difcovered in Hampmire by 

 G. Montagu, Efq. The figures in the annexed plate will (hew the 

 upper and lower furfaces as they appear when magnified. The (mailer 

 figure exemplifies the natural fize. 



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