50 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
pound joint ferruginous, slightly curved upward, shorter that the third joint : 
chest and breast hoary; disk of the former ferruginous, adorned with two 
oblong hoary stripes: abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest; 
its back brownish ferruginous, adorned with three hoary stripes, the side 
pair connected by a slender band at the base, and extending thence to the 
hind border of the third segment; the middle one begins at the fore border 
of the third segment, and extends nearly to the tip; under side pale 
tawny, clothed with short whitish hairs: legs tawny, clothed with short 
pale hairs; hips and thighs tinged with gray; feet ferruginous ; claws 
black; fore-feet and tips of fore-shanks pitchy: wings colourless ; wing- 
ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base; curve of the tip eross- 
vein slightly inclining to avery obtuse angle. Length of the body 53 lines ; 
of the wings 11 lines. 
East India. 
TaBanus crassus, Mas. 
Piceo-ferrugineus, latus, abdomine basi fulvo, antennis basi fulvis, pedibus 
piceis, alis limpidis. 
Body very stout, dark ferruginous, inclining to pitch colour, with a 
slight hoary covering: head dark tawny beneath; eyes bronzed, of one 
colour, but as usual, of two regions : sucker black ; first and second joints 
of the feelers tawny: abdomen slightly obconical, a little longer and 
broader than the chest, dark tawny towards the base above: legs pitehy ; 
foot-cushions tawny ; claws black, tawny towards the base : wings colour- 
less; brands brown; wing-ribs and veins pale ferruginous, the latter 
darker towards the tips; curve of the tip cross-vein slight; scales and 
poisers dark tawny ; knobs of the latter bright pale yellow. Length of the 
body 83 lines; of the wings 17 lines. 
Hast India. 
TaBanus vaGus, Fem. 
Cinereus, thoracis lateribus ferrugincis, abdomine ferrugineo maculis tri- 
gonis flavo-pilosis trivittato, antennis basi fulvis, pedibus ferrugineis, 
tarsis piceis, tibiis apice tarsisque nigris, alis subcinereis. 
Body gray: crown of the head with a dark tawny covering, which is 
interrupted by a ferruginous, shining, club-shaped, convex mark; front 
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