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66 ; INSECTA SAUNDIURSIANA. 
cross-vein ; scales colourless, with tawny borders; poisers tawny. Length 
of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 11 lines. 
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TaBANus RUFONIGER, Fem. 
Niger, capite antice subtusque fulvo, thoracis lateribus vittis duabus pec- 
toreque rufis, abdomine basi subtusque rufo, segmentorum marginibus 
posticis subtus fulvis, pedibus piceis, alis cinereis, basi costa venarum- 
que marginibus fuscis. 
Body black: head in front and beneath tawny, covered with a hoary 
bloom, clothed with pale yellow hairs: eyes bronze, large, parted by a very 
narrow interval on the crown, and almost in contact on the fore part ; fa- 
cets very small, but alittle larger in front than elsewhere: sucker black ; 
lancets ferruginous ; palpi yellow: feelers black; the horn stout, curved, 
rather long : chest and breast dark red; disk of the chest black, with the 
exception of two dark red stripes: abdomen obconical, much longer but 
not broader than the chest, dark red above at the base and on the sides of 
the second segment ; beneath dark red, clothed with short tawny hairs, 
and adorned with a tawny hind border to each segment: legs pitchy, 
clothed with short black hairs; thighs clothed with tawny hairs; knees 
dark red; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny: wings dark gray, brown at 
the base and beneath the fore border for three-fourths of the length and 
along the borders of the veins in the disk; wing-ribs and veins black ; 
tip cross-vein forming a slightly obtuse angle, without a stump ; posterior 
submarginal areolet open to the border; scales blackish; poisers white. 
Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 
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TaBANUS REDACcTUS, Fem. 
Niger, abdomine ferrugineo vitta nigra ornato, antennis fulvis, pedibus 
Serrugineis, alis cinereis basi et ad costam fulvis. 
Body black: head thinly clothed beneath with short pale yellow hairs ; 
crown with four shining pitchy convexities, the fourth large, occupying the 
space between the third and the feelers, slightly furrowed: eyes dark 
bronze, thinly clothed with short tawny hairs, parted above by a very broad 
