28 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
short yellow hairs; shanks and feet clothed also with very short black 
hairs; feet ferruginous, tawny at the base; claws black ; foot-cushions 
tawny: wings slightly tinged with gray ; wing-ribs tawny; veins black, 
tawny towards the base and along the fore border; a curve near the base of 
the tip cross-vein, but no angle nor stump ; seales pale gray, with tawny 
borders ; poisers tawny, with bright pale yellow knobs. Length of the 
body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 
Bolton, North America. 
TABANUS OBLIQUUS, Fem. 
Fulvus, abdominis apice obscuriore, palpis antennis pedibusque fulvis, alis 
cinereis, nervis transversis fusco nebulosis. 
Body tawny: head clothed beneath with tawny hairs: eyes dark 
bronze, parted above by a very narrow interval ; facets very small, but 
larger on the fore border than elsewhere : sucker dark tawny, with a pitchy 
tip, clothed with tawny hairs, not much shorter than the chest, a character 
among others in which this species approaches Pangonia; palpi tawny, 
clothed with short black hairs: feelers tawny: horn of the third joint 
acute, extremely short ; compound joint ferruginous: abdomen nearly li- 
near, darker towards the tip, a little broader than the chest, and nearly 
twice its length; sides of the segments impressed with oblique rows of 
little punctures ; legs tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; claws black : 
wings davk gray, with a dark tawny tinge at the base and beneath the 
fore border; cross-veins clouded with brown; wing-ribs and veins dark 
tawny, the latter partly black; brand pitchy, narrow, slightly oblique ; 
a curve near the base of the tip cross-vein but no angle nor stump ; a small 
almost colourless spot on each wing beneath the tip cross-vein; scales 
gray, with dark tawny borders ; poisers tawny, with pale yellow tips. Length 
of the body 53 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 
Jamaica. 
