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38 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
sides of the eyes with the exception of a narrow band along the hind 
border: sucker ferruginous, black towards the tip; palpi tawny, and 
clothed with tawny hairs: feelers bright tawny ; first joint yellow, clothed 
with yellow hairs ; second clothed with black hairs ; third pitchy at the tip, 
its horn acute, very short ; chest thickly clothed with bright tawny hairs: 
breast tawny, with a hoary tinge: abdomen tawny, slightly obconical, fer- 
fuginous towards the tip, very much longer than the chest; under side 
yellow with a tawny tip: legs tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs ; feet 
pitchy towards the tips ; claws black ; foot-cushions yellow: wings brown, 
darkest at the base, gray along the hind border for half the length from the 
base, colourless at the tips, adorned with a large tawny spot which extends 
from the fore border to the disk ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, partly fer- 
ruginous ; angle of the tip cross-vein strongly marked, slightly obtuse, sending 
forth a rather long stump ; scales brown ; poisers tawny. 
Fem. Head pale tawny in front, hoary, and clothed with white hairs 
beneath: eyes black, parted above by a rather broad interval; all the 
facets very small: sucker black; lancets pale ferruginous; palpi yellow 
with black tips, longer than those of the male: feelers tawny, black to- 
wards the tips, darker, shorter and more curved than those of the male ; 
they are also wider at the base, and the horn is larger: chest tawny, thinly 
clothed with pale tawny hairs; breast with a hoary tinge, partly clothed 
with white hairs: hind borders of abdominal segments yellow ; under side 
tawny, with a hoary tinge: legs tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs ; 
feet and fore-shanks ferruginous ; fore-feet black: wings brown, gray at 
the tips and along the whole length of the hind border ; spot much smaller 
and less distinct than that of the male, and more gray than tawny ; stump 
of the tip cross-vein shorter in one wing than in the other of the specimen 
described. 
Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 
South America. 
TABANUS SUBSENEX, Mas. 
Piceus, capite cano, thoracis lateribus ferrugineis, abdomine rufo-fusco 
vitlis tribus fulvis ornato, antennis ferrugineis basi fulvis apice nigris, 
pedibus fulvis ferrugineo nigroque variis, alis cinereis basi et ad cos- 
tam fulvis. 
Head hoary and clothed with white hairs in front and beneath: eyes 
dark red, not divided into two regions, but the facets above are of moderate 
