COLLECTED AT SING ADOBE AND MALACCA. 
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segment. Legs testaceous ; hind tibise black towards the tips ; hind tarsi 
black, with whitish tips. Wings lurid, brown towards the tips; veins 
brown. Halteres testaceous. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 
14 lines. 
Singapore. 
Fam. TABANIDiE, Leach. 
Gen. Tab an us, Linn. 
20. Tabanus univentris, Walk. Cat. Dipt. pt. 1. 161. 
The description in the above reference will not well apply to the two following 
varieties of this species. 
Var. 1. Female. Brown. Head testaceous in front and beneath. Thorax 
with two testaceous stripes. Abdomen ferruginous, tawny beneath and 
with a dorsal stripe of tawny triangular spots. Legs blackish ; femora and 
tibiae partly testaceous. Wings dark grey. — Var. 2. Like Var. 1. Ab- 
domen blackish above, with a dorsal stripe of testaceous spots. 
Mount Ophir. Inhabits also Borneo. 
21. Tabanus pabtittts, n. s., fcem. Nigricans, subtiis albidus, antennis fulvis 
apice nigris, thorace cinerascente eano-quadrivittato, abdomine pieeo albido- 
trivittato, pedibus testaceis, femoribus tibiisque apice tarsisque nigrican- 
tibus, alis subcinereis. 
Female. Blackish ; underside and head behind with whitish tomentum. An- 
tennae dull tawny, black towards the tips ; angle of the 3rd joint minute 
and obtuse. Thorax greyish, with four hoary stripes. Abdomen piceous, 
with three whitish stripes. Legs testaceous ; tarsi and tips of the femora 
and of the tibiee blackish. Wings greyish, stigma and veins black ; fore 
branch of the cubital vein simple, nearly straight. Length of the body 
6 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 
Singapore. 
Note. — T. rubidus, Wied., is very closely allied to the above species, but may 
be distinguished from it by the following characters. 
T. rubidus. Front with the callus quite entire. Antennae blackish. Middle 
stripe of the abdomen composed of triangular spots. Wings greyish. 
T. partitas. Smaller. Front with the callus almost interrupted. Antennae 
pale tawny, with darker tips. Middle stripe of the abdomen entire, parallel. 
Wings quite limpid. 
Gen. Chrysops, Meigen. 
22. Chrysops dispar, Fabr. Syst. Anti. 112. 5. 
Mount Ophir and Malacca. Inhabits also Hindostan and Java. 
Fam. ASILID^E, Leach. 
Subfani. Dasypogonites, Walk. 
Gen. Discocephala, Macquart. 
23. Discocephala doesalis, n. s., foam. Nigricans, thorace subgibboso, 
