A4 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
a dull tawny covering: legs tawny, clothed with short yellow hairs; hips 
and thighs black with a tawny tinge; shanks and feet clothed with short 
black hairs ; tips of hind shanks pitchy ; claws, fore-shanks from the middle 
to the tips and fore-feet black; four hinder feet pitchy, tawny at the base ; 
foot-cushions dull tawny: wings colourless ; brands dark tawny: wing-ribs 
and yeins tawny, the latter pitchy towards the tips; a nearly right angle 
with a lony stump near the base of the tip cross-vein; scales pale tawny ; 
poisers whitish yellow. Length of the body 7 lines; of the wings 12 
lines. 
Cape. 
TaBanus aLBIpacvus, Fem. 
Nigro-cinereus, capitis vertice thoracisque lateribus fulvo maculatis, abdo- 
minis lateribus basi fulvis, segmentorum marginibus posticis ferrugi- 
neis, antennis fulvis apice ferrugineis, pedibus flavis, femoribus bast 
tibiis anticis apice tarsisque anticis nigris, alis limpidis. 
Body grayish-black : head thinly clothed beneath with whitish hairs ; 
a small tawny spot on the hinder crown: eyes red, parted above by a very 
broad interval, each adorned with an oblique dark stripe which extends 
from the fore inner to the hind outer border ; all the facets very small : 
sucker dark ferruginous, very short; lancets tawny ; palpi yellowish white, 
clothed with short white and black hairs: feelers tawny, very short; first 
and second joints clothed with short black hairs, each produced above into 
a black angle ; third joint convex above at the base, not horned ; compound 
joint ferruginous, short, very slightly curved upward: a tawny spot on each 
side of the chest at the base of the wings: abdomen slightly obconical, 
very much longer than the chest, adorned with a short tawny stripe on 
each side near the base ; hind borders of the segments ferruginous ; under 
side mostly gray: legs pale yellow; thighs towards the base and hips 
black; tips of the joints of the feet brown; claws, fore-shanks from the 
middle to the tips and fore-feet black: wings colourless; wing-ribs and 
veins tawny ; angle of the tip cross-veins very obtuse, with no stump ; 
brands very indistinct; scales colourless, with pale yellow borders ; poisers 
whitish yellow. Length of the body 4} lines; of the wings 9 lines. 
Gambia. 
