1942] 
Tabanidas from Panama 
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Tabanus (Bellardia) piraticus n. sp. (Figs 7, 7a, 7b) 
Lophotabanus fumomarginatus Krober, 1929, Zool. Anz., 
LXXXIII, pp. 131-132, fig. 11. Dunn, 1934, Psyche, XLI, 
3, p. 174. (nec. T . fumomarginatus Hine, 1920, Ohio Journ. 
Sci., XX, 8, pp. 315-316.). 
Female. — Length 13-16.4 mm., of wing 12-15 mm. 
Frons, antennae and palpi as figured. Frons and face dull 
yellowish brown, beard sparse, brownish. Callus orange 
yellow. First two antennal segments yellow, black haired, 
the third nearly black. Palpi dull brownish yellow, black 
haired. Proboscis blackish, the labellae fleshy, more than 
half total length of proboscis. Eyes bare, dark greenish 
black, unicolorous in life. 
Mesonotum orange brown, sparsely brown haired. Pleura 
and coxae somewhat more greyish. Prescutellum and disc 
of scutellum with a prominent large spot of black pilosity, 
completely encircled with pale golden hairs. Legs light 
brown, dark haired, the fore femora, tibiae and tarsi darker ; 
the tibiae not bicolored. Wings quite smoky, either rather 
uniformly so, or with the veins broadly brown margined. 
First posterior cell broadly open and no vestige of an ap- 
pendix on the third vein. Abdomen orange brown in ground 
color, clothed with dark and light brown hairs, the latter 
forming an exceedingly faint, broad mid-dorsal stripe or 
series of broad connected triangles, which are only visible 
in perfect specimens with light of proper incidence. Be- 
neath, the abdomen is somewhat lighter with sparse light 
hairs. 
Holotype $ , Old Cruces trail, Canal Zone Forest reserve, 
Nov. 19, 1939 ; Paratypes, 2 $ , same data ; 8 $ , Cruces trail 
and C. Z. forest reserve, July 8, Oct. 11, Oct. 23, and Nov. 6, 
1939 ; 3 $ , Barro Colorado Is., C. Z. Nov. 10-13, 1939 ; 1 $ , 
Barro Colorado Is., Oct. 20 (M. Bates, coll.) ; 1 9, Camp 
Pital, Chiriqui Prov., Panama, July 12, 1929 (L. H. Dunn 
coll., det. as fumomarginatus Hine) ; 7 $ Rio Pequeni, 
Panama, Aug. 21, 1940; 1 $ El Valle, Code Prov., July, 
1939. Holotype and 3 paratypes to be deposited in the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 
other paratypes to be deposited in U. S. N. M. and author’s 
collection. 
