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26 INSECTA SAUNDERSTANA. 
Tabanus RUFOFRATOR, Fem. 
Cinereo-rufus, abdominis maculis trigonis et segmentorum marginibus 
posticis fulvis, palpis antennisque fulvis, his apice niyris, pedibus fer- 
rugineis, tarsis piceis, alis sublimpidis, nervis transversis fusco sub- 
nebulosis, 
Body dull red: head tinged with gray, clothed beneath with white 
hairs; two shining convex marks on the crown, the first spindle-shaped, 
the second round: eyes dark bronze, parted above by a rather broad inter- 
val, composed of very small facets, which, however, are a little larger on 
the inner fore border than elsewhere : sucker black, rather long and stout ; 
palpi tawny, long, clothed with very short black hairs: feelers dark tawny 
first and second joints clothed with short black hairs, their tips lengthened 
above into short horns, the first stout, the second slender ; third joint black 
towards the tip, convew beneath, forming above a slight angle which is beset 
with short black hairs; compound joint black, slightly curved upward : 
breast tinged with gray, partly clothed with whitish hairs: abdomen ob- 
conical, much longer than the chest, thinly clothed with whitish hairs on 
each side, and along the pale tawny hind border of each segment ; a tawny 
stripe above, forming on each segment a triangle whose base rests on the 
hind border; under side pale red: legs ferruginous, clothed with short 
whitish hairs ; shanks towards the tips and feet clothed with short black 
hairs ; feet pitchy, dark ferruginous beneath; claws and fore-feet black ; 
foot-cushions tawny: wings almost colourless; cross-veins very slightly 
clouded with brown: wing-ribs ferruginous; veins black, ferruginous at 
the base and along the fore border ; a curve near the base of the tip cross- 
vein, no angle nor stump; scales grayish tawny, with dark tawny borders; 
poisers ferruginous. Length of the body 8} lines ; of the wings 17 lines. 
Georgia. 
Tapanus incisus, Fem. 
Nigro-cinereus, capite fulvescenti, thorace vittis quatuor canis ornato, la- 
teribus ferrugineis, pectore cano, abdominis lateribus ventreque fulvis, 
antennis fulvis apice nigris, pedibus nigris, tibiis basi fulvis, alis sub- 
cinereis. 
Body black: head adorned with a pale tawny covering ; two pitchy, 
shining, convex marks on the crown, one spindle-shaped, the other in 
front, nearly round: eyes pitchy, parted above by a rather broad interval : 
