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than its inner side; brands pale yellow; scales whitish with pale tawny 
borders ; poisers yellow. 
Fem, Crown of the head hoary, adorned with two black shining spots : 
eyes red; the facets as usual: sucker pitchy towards the tip: abdomen 
gray, slightly obconical, clothed with short pale yellow hairs; sides of the 
first, second and third segments tawny ; under side hoary. 
Length of the body 5—5} lines ; of the wings 9—10 lines. 
East India. 
TABANUS ALBIMEDIUs, Fem. 
Cinereo-ferrugineus, pectore cano, abdomine maculis fulvis subtrigonis 
trivittato, antennis fulvis apice nigris, pedibus ferrugineis, vibtis 
anticis apice tarsisque anticis piceis, alis limpidis. 
Body ferruginous : crown of the head adorned with a buff covering 
which is interrupted by a ferruginous, convex, shining, club-shaped 
mark; under side white and clothed with white hairs: eyes brassy, 
parted above by a moderate interval: sucker black ; lancets ferruginous ; 
palpi whitish yellow, clothed with short whitish hairs: feelers ferruginous ; 
first and second joints tawny, beset above at the tips with very short black 
bristles ; third joint slightly convea beneath, its horn forming a very shallow 
and obtuse angle, whose fore side is very short and forms an extremely obtuse 
angle with the continuation of the third joint to the tip ; compound joint 
black, curved upward, rather more than half the length of the third joint : 
chest tinged with gray ; breast hoary, clothed with white hairs: abdomen 
obconical, with a slight hoary tinge, much longer than the chest, adorned 
above with three pale tawny stripes which are composed of imperfectly 
triangular spots: legs ferruginous, clothed with short pale yellow hairs ; 
thighs much paler than the shanks; claws black ; fore-feet and tips of 
fore-shanks pitchy : wings quite colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, 
tawny towards the base ; brands dark tawny ; cur've of the tip cross-vein in- 
clining to an obtuse angle; scales and poisers tawny, knobs of the latter 
bright pale yellow. Length of the body 7 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 
East India. 
