2Q4 INSHCTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
tawny, clothed with short yellow and black hairs: feelers bright pale fer- 
ruginous ; first and second joints tawny, clothed with short black hairs; 
third joint convex beneath, armed above with an extremely short horn whose 
tip is black ; compound joint black, slightly curved upward: chest tinged 
with dull pale tawny, clothed on each side with bright tawny hairs: breast 
with a hoary tinge: abdomen ferruginous, obeonical, very much longer 
than the chest, clothed with short tawny and black hairs, adorned with a 
tawny middle stripe which widens on the hind border of each segment, 
and is accompanied on each side by a black stripe; the latter widens 
towards the tip, where it occupies the whole breadth ; under side tawny, 
with a black tip : legs tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs; thighs black, 
with tawny tips ; tips of four hinder shanks, fore shanks for half the length 
from the tips, four hinder feet towards the tips and fore-feet black; foot- 
cushions tawny: wings hardly tinged with gray, tawny at the base and 
along the fore borders for three-fourths of the length; brands yellowish- 
brown ; wing-ribs tawny; veins black, tawny towards the base; a curve 
but no angle nor stump near the base of the tip cross-vein ; scales grayish 
tawny, with tawny borders ; poisers tawny, with pale yellow knobs. Length 
of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 
United States. 
TABANUS ConTERMINUS, Fem. 
Cinereus, pectore cano, abdomine fulvo vittis duabus piceis unaque cana 
viltam piceam includente ornato, antennis ferrugineis basi fulvis apice 
nigris, pedibus fulvis piceo variis, femoribus cinereis, tarsis anticis 
nigris, alis limpidis, 
Crown adorned with a pale dull tawny covering, which is interrupted 
by a round, convex, pitchy, shining spot in front; under side of the head 
white, and clothed with white hairs: eyes bronzed, parted above by a 
rather broad interval ; the facets as usual: sucker pitchy ; lancets ferrugi- 
nous; palpi yellowish-white, clothed with very short black hairs: feelers 
ferruginous ; first and second joints tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; 
third joint slightly convex beneath, armed above with a shallow right angle 
whose hind side is twice the length of its fore side, the latter forms a very 
obtuse angle with the continuation of the third joint to the tip ; compound 
joint black, curved upward, as long as the third joint : ehest gray, clothed 
with short hoary hairs: breast hoary, clothed with white hairs: abdomen 
