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INSECTA SAUNDERSTANA. 
Tapanus consocius, Fem. 
Nigro-cinereus, capite subtus flavescente, pectore cano, abdomine fulvo apice 
nigro, segmentorum marginibus posticis flavis, antennis basi fulvis, 
pedibus fulvis, tarsis anticis femoribusque nigris, tibiis tarsisque apice 
Serrugineis, alis subcinereis basi et ad costam subfulvis. 
Body black: head thickly covered with tawny bloom, pale yellow 
and clothed with pale yellow hairs beneath: eyes dark bronze, parted on 
the crown by a moderate interval ; all the facets very small: sucker black ; 
lancets pale ferruginous; palpi pale tawny with darker tips, clothed with 
short black hairs: first and second joints of the feelers tawny, clothed with 
black hairs: chest tinged with gray, clothed on each side with some pale 
yellow hairs ; breast hoary: abdomen tawny, obconical, much longer than 
the chest, black towards the tip; hind borders of the segments yellow: 
legs tawny, clothed with short black and tawny hairs; thighs black, with 
tawny tips, clothed with long pale yellow hairs ; tips of the shanks and of 
the feet ferruginous ; claws and fore-feet black ; foot-cushions dark tawny : 
wings slightly gray, tawny at the base and along two-thirds of the length 
of the fore border; brands yellowish brown ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, 
tawny towards the base; angle of the tip cross-vein obtuse, distinct; no 
stump ; seales grayish ; poisers bright pale tawny. Length of the body 
64 lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 
East India. 
TABANUS PERLINEA, Fem. 
Cinereus, pectore cano, abdomine nigro, macula utringue basi et segmen- 
torum marginibus posticis fulvis, antennis ferrugineis basi fulvis, 
apice nigris, pedibus cinereis, tibiis tarsisque fulvis, his supra piceis, 
alis subcinereis basi et ad costam fulvis. 
Body gray: head covered above with tawny bloom, hoary behind and 
beneath where it is clothed with pale yellow hairs ; a pitchy, shining, con- 
vex mark in front of the crown : eyes black, parted above by a moderately 
broad interval, composed of very small facets; the facets on the inner 
sides of the fore part are rather larger than those elsewhere: sucker black ; 
lancets pale ferruginous; palpi tawny, clothed with short black and pale 
yellow hairs: feelers bright pale ferruginous ; first and second joints tawny, 
