DIPTERA, oT 
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thinly clothed with short black hairs; third gibbous and armed with a black: 
point above, but not forming a horn; compound joint black, very slightly 
curved upward : breast hoary ; sides clothed with pale yellow hairs: abdo- 
men black, obconical, much longer than the chest, thinly clothed with 
short pale yellow and black hairs, adored with a large tawny spot on each 
side towards the base, and with a tawny hind border to each segment : legs 
gray, clothed with short yellow hairs; tips of the thighs tawny; shanks 
tawny, with pitchy tips; feet pitchy above, tawny beneath ; claws black; 
foot-cushions tawny: wings pale gray, tawny at the base and along the 
fore border as far as the brand, which is pale brown; wing-ribs tawny ; 
veins black, tawny towards the base; @ curve near the base of the tip cross- 
vein, but no angle nor stump ; scales tawny ; poisers ferruginous. Length 
of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines, 
East India, 
TABANUS CaLIpUs, Fem. 
Cinereo-fulous, thorace fulvo trivittato, abdomine fulvo vitta pallidiore, 
apice piceo, antennis basi pedibusque fulvis, femoribus cinereis, tarsis 
piceis, alis cinereis, basi costa venarumque marginibus fulvis, 
Body grayish tawny: head covered above with buff, hoary behind and 
beneath where it is thinly clothed with white hairs; crown adorned with 
a shining, pitchy, club-shaped, convex mark, which has slight oblique fur- 
rows: feeler region with a slight interrupted cross-furrow behind, and with 
a more distinct longitudinal furrow; region of the face divided by a curved 
furrow from that of the eyes, and having on each side a ridge which ex- 
tends to the base of the palpi: eyes bronze, with a purple tint in front, 
parted above by a moderately broad interval ; facets very small, a little 
larger on the inner side of the fore part than elsewhere: sucker rather 
long, tinged with grayish tawny towards the base, pitehy towards the tip ; 
palpi yellow, clothed with very short black and pale yellow hairs; first and 
second joints of the feelers tawny: chest with three indistinct tawny stripes ; 
sides somewhat tawny; breast hoary, partly clothed with whitish hairs: 
abdomen tawny, obconical, very much longer than the chest, pitchy to- 
wards the tip, adorned above with a silky lustre, and with a broad regular 
buff stripe which extends along the whole length, and has on each side 
one of the same colour, but indistinct and irregular ; under side tinged 
with hoary ; segments above and beneath impressed with several rows of 
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