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DIPTERA. 63 
Tabanus contactus, Fem 
Cinereus, pectore cano, abdominis maculis duabus lateribus et segmentorum 
marginibus posticis fulvis, antennis ferrugineis basi fulvis apice 
piceis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus cinereis, tarsis piceis, alis subcine- 
reis, 
Head tawny, adorned with a hoary covering which on the crown is 
interrupted by two pitchy, shining marks, one round, the other very 
slender: eyes dark bronze; the facets as usual: sucker pitchy : lancets 
ferruginous ; palpi pale yellow, clothed with short black hairs : feelers fer- 
ruginous ; first and second joints tawny, clothed with short black hairs: 
third joint slightly convex beneath, armed above with an obtuse angle, whose 
fore side is not longer than its hind side; compound joint pitchy, very 
slightly curved upward, as long as the third joint: chest gray; breast 
hoary, thinly clothed with short white hairs: abdomen gray, slightly ob- 
conical, longer than the chest, thinly clothed with short pale hairs ; sides 
and hind borders of the segments tawny ; a large tawny spot on each side 
of the second segment: legs tawny, clothed with very short black hairs; 
hips and thighs gray, clothed with white hairs; feet pitchy; claws and 
fore-feet black: wings pale gray; wing-ribs and veins tawny, the latter 
black towards the tips; curve of the tip cross-vein inclining to an obtuse 
angle ; brands dull yellow ; wings pale gray, with tawny borders ; poisers 
tawny. Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 9 lines. 
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TABANUS HIsPIDUS, Mas. 
Cinereus, thoracis lateribus abdomineque ferrugineis, hoc basi nigro vittato, 
antennis ferrugineis, basi fulvis, pedibus ferrugineis, tarsis piceis, 
tarsis anticis nigris, alis subcinereis. 
Head beneath dark tawny, clothed with pale tawny hairs: eyes dark 
bronze, thickly clothed with short dark tawny hairs; all the facets very 
small: sucker black; palpi hoary: eyes tawny, clothed with short pale 
yellow hairs; feet black, ferruginous beneath; tips of the fore-shanks 
black: wings pale gray ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous, the latter pitchy 
towards the tips; angle of the tip cross-vein very obtuse, slightly rounded ; 
poisers tawny, with pale yellow knobs. Length of the body 8 lines; of 
the wings 16 lines. 
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