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Guantanamo, 22-3-1965, P. Stary; 1 $, Sierra Maestra, Oriente, 
Santa Ana, 28-5-1965, P. Stary; 1 $, coast below Pico Turquino, 
eastern Oriente, July 26-30, 1936, P. J. Darlington; 1 $, Yunque 
de Baracoa, Oriente, July 13, 1936, 1000- 1800 ft., Darlington; 
2 Mts. n. of Imias, Eastern Oriente, July 25-28, 1936, 3000- 
4000 ft., Darlington; 1 Soledad, Sta. Clara, Cuba, VII-2-1932, 
Bates and Fairchild. To be deposited in Museum of Comparative 
Zoology, Harvard University, Narodni Museum, Prague, and coll. 
C. B. Philip. 
The Stary specimens are mostly somewhat grease darkened and 
a number are lacking appendages, apparently taken by hand. The 
remaining material is generally paler, the abdomens more brownish 
and thoraxes more clearly striped. 
Aside from smaller size, this species differs from brunettii in smaller 
wing spots, less clearly marked median abdominal triangles, stubbier 
antennae which are generally more extensively yellow or orange, and 
in proportionally wider pale abdominal bands. The wings are always 
slightly shorter than body, while in brunettii they are always slightly 
longer than body. 
Dr. Stary also collected 88 specimens of St. brunettii from Pico 
Turquino, Santa Ana, Loma de Cordero, Cabezal de Palma M. and 
Pico de Cuba, all in Oriente Province. I have also seen material 
from other localities in Oriente Province and from Buenos Aires, 
Trinidad Mts., Santa Clara in M.C.Z. Those from the latter lo- 
cality are smaller and paler. 
Bequaert’s action ( 1940) in renaming Silvius punctipennis Brunetti 
arose from his belief that Stenotabanus was no more than a subgenus 
of Tabanus, so that punctipennis Brunetti 1923 became a junior 
secondary homonym of Tabanus punctipennis Macq. 1836, upon 
transfer by Bequaert to Tabanus (Stenotabanus) . But since this 
action was taken before i960, it is my belief that strict application 
of Article 59c of the International Rules of Zoological Nomenclature 
requires the retention of brunettii Bequaert 1940. This article states 
that names of this sort published after i960 are to be changed, and 
by implication, that those proposed before that date are to stand. 
References 
Bequaert, J. 
1940. The Tabanidae of the Antilles. Rev. Ent. 11(1-2): 319. 
Brunetti, E. 
1923. Two new species of Tabanidae from Cuba. Bull. Ent. Res., 13: 
402. 
