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40 INSECTA SAUNDERSTIANA. 
nical, longer than the chest, clothed with short tawny and black hairs, 
hoary towards the base, adorned above with a pale tawny middle stripe, 
which decreases towards the tip ; hind borders of the yentral segments and 
nearly the whole of them towards the tip tawny: legs tawny; hips and 
thighs gray, clothed with pale yellow hairs; shanks fringed with black 
hairs; feet pitchy; claws black; foot-cushions tawny ; fore-feet black: 
wings very pale gray, with a slight tawny tinge at the base and along the 
fore border as far as the brand, which is pale yellow; wing-ribs ferrugi- 
nous; veins black, ferruginous towards the base and along the fore border ; 
curve of the tip cross-vein inclining to an angular form, no stump ; scales 
gray, with tawny borders; poisers tawny, their knobs brown with pale yel- 
low tips. Length of the body 7 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 
South America ? 
TaBANUS FERRUGINOSUS, Fem. 
Ferrugineus, abdomine maculis trigonis fulvis vittato, segmentorum mar - 
ginibus posticis fulvis, antennis ferrugineis apice nigris, pedibus 
fulvis, tibiis anticis apice tarsisque piceis, tarsis anticis nigris, alis 
cinereis ad costam fulvis. 
An aberrant species. Body ferruginous: covering of the head dark 
tawny above, hoary beneath where it is clothed with hoary hairs: eyes 
brassy, parted above by a narrow interval ; facets very small, but slightly 
increasing in size towards the inner fore border: sucker black; lancets 
pale ferruginous; palpi dark tawny, long, slender, clothed with short black 
hairs: feelers ferruginous ; first and second joints clothed with short black 
hairs; third joint hardly angular above, slightly convex beneath, darker 
towards the tip ; compound joint black, very slightly curved upward, much 
shorter than the third joint : chest paler on each side ; breast with a hoary 
tinge, partly clothed with white hairs: abdomen linear, rounded towards 
the tip, a little broader and very much longer than the chest, adorned 
with a stripe of tawny triangular spots, these rest on the hind borders of 
the segments, which are also tawny ; a hoary tinge towards the base of the 
under side: legs tawny, clothed with short black hairs; thighs clothed 
with short pale tawny hairs ; feet and tips of the fore shanks pitchy, claws 
and fore-feet black: wings gray, dark tawny beneath the fore border; 
brands brown; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black; angle of the tip cross-vein 
very distinct, very slightly obtuse, sending forth a long stump ; scales gray, 
