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46 INSECTA SAUNDERSTANA. 
stump near the base of the tip cross-vein ; scales dull grayish tawny : poisers 
ferruginous. Length of the body 44 lines; of the wings 9 lines. 
Cape. 
Tapanus sicous, Fem. 
Cinereus, abdomine rufo, palpis flavis, antennis rufis, pedibus fulvis, tarsis 
’ L/0, patp ’ , 
piceis, tibiis anticis rufis, tarsis anticis nigris, alis subcinereis. 
Head adorned with a tawny covering which is interrupted by two fer- 
ruginous, shining, convex dots on the crown ; eyes red, parted above by a 
moderate interval: sucker pitchy; lancets tawny; palpi pale yellow, 
clothed with very short black hairs: feelers pale red; horn of the third 
joint forming a very shallow, slightly obtuse angle ; chest and breast gray, 
clothed with tawny hairs; sides pale red: abdomen pale red, obconical, 
darker towards the tip, very much longer than the chest ; hind borders of 
the segments pale, and clothed with pale yellow hairs ; under side tawny : 
legs tawny, clothed with very short black hairs; thighs clothed with pale 
yellow hairs ; feet pitchy ; claws and fore-feet black ; fore-shanks pale red ; 
wings pale gray; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; tip cross-vein forming a dis- 
tinct, slightly obtuse angle, and sending forth a stump which is rather longer 
than its inner side ; scales pale gray, with tawny borders. Length of the 
body 6} lines; of the wings 12 lines. 
Egypt. 
Asiatic Species. 
Tabanus aLButus, Mas et Fem. 
Canus, abdomine fusco-fulvo lateribus flavo maculatis (fem. dorso cinereo), 
antennis fulvis basi flavis, pedibus fulvis, alis albidis. 
Male. Body hoary ; head yellow in front, whitish and clothed with 
white hairs beneath: eyes of two regions and colours, the one pale red of 
large facets, the other bronze-black, occupying the sides and extending in 
a narrow band along the hind border: sucker pale ferruginous; lancets 
tawny; palpi whitish, clothed with white hairs: feelers tawny ; first and 
second joints yellow ; third slightly convex beneath, the angle above extremely 
shallow and obtuse, its fore side much more than twice the length of the hind 
