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30 TNSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
TABANUS FERRIFER, Fem. 
Fervugineus, capite flavo, vertice thoracisque vittis quatuor fulvis, pectore 
cano, abdomine nigro-fusco, dorso maculis fulvis trivittato, lateribus 
basi ventrisque segmentorum marginibus posticis fulvis, antennis fer- 
rugineis basi fulvis apice nigris, pedibus fulvis, tibiis ferrugineis, 
tarsis piceis, alis cinereis, bast venarumque marginibus subfuscis. 
Body with a dark ferruginous covering: head dark tawny above, pale 
yellow in front and beneath where it is clothed with whitish hairs; a long 
club-shaped ferruginous mark on the crown: eyes dark bronze, parted 
above by a moderately broad interval ; all the facets very small: sucker 
pitchy ; lancets ferruginous; palpi pale yellow, clothed with short black 
hairs: feelers long, dark ferruginous ; first and second joints tawny, 
clothed with short black hairs ; tip of the first joint produced above into a 
long conical horn with a black tip; tip of the second joint forming an 
acute angle on each side; horn of the third joint short, stout ; compound 
joint black, very slightly curved upward : chest adorned with four indistinct 
dark tawny stripes: breast hoary, clothed with whitish hairs: abdomen 
dark brown, obconical, very much longer than the chest, tawny on each 
side at the base, adorned above with three rows of pale tawny spots ; mid- 
dle row shorter and less distinct than the side pair; a bright tawny band 
on the hind border of each ventral segment ; legs tawny, clothed with short 
yellow hairs ; shanks and feet clothed with short black hairs; shanks fer- 
ruginous ; feet pitchy ; claws and fore-feet black; foot-cushions tawny : 
wings gray, slightly brown at the base and along the borders of the veins; 
brands brown; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, here and there ferrugi- 
nous ; @ curve, which especially is clouded with brown, near the base of the 
tip cross-vein ; no angle nor stump; scales tawny; poisers yellow, with 
whitish tips. Length of the body 10 lines; of the wings 20 lines. 
Barbadoes ? 
TABANUS suBMACULA, Plate 2, fig. 8. 
Fem. Wigro-cinereus, thoracis vittis duabus pectoreque canis, lateribus 
Serrugineis, abdomine fasciculis albis ornato, antennis pedibusque 
nigris, alis cinereis fusco maculatis basi et ad costam fulvis. 
Allied to Pangonia. Body black: covering of the head dark tawny 
above, hoary beneath where it is thickly clothed with long white hairs; a 
