NOTES ON NEOTROPICAL TABANIDAE VIII. 
THE SPECIES DESCRIBED BY J. C. FABRICIUS 1 
By G. B. Fairchild 
Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, Panama, R. de. P. 
During the summer of 1964 I had the opportunity of studying the 
types of Neotropical Tabanidae in Copenhagen with the financial 
aid of a travel grant from the Bache Fund of the National Academy 
of Sciences,. 
The existing type specimens of all insects described by Johann 
Christian Fabricius have recently been reviewed by Dr. Ella Zim- 
sen (1964), of the Universitetets Zoologiske Museum in Copen- 
hagen. The present notes concern only the neotropical Tabanidae. 
Studies of the Wiedemann types in Copenhagen will appear elsewhere. 
Fabricius type material was for a long time present in the Museums 
at Kiel and Copenhagen, but the Kiel collection has recently been 
deposited in Copenhagen. The Kiel material was much damaged by 
pests, while the Copenhagen material is generally quite well pre- 
served. 
I am greatly indebted to Dr. S. L. Tuxen for permission to study 
this material, and for comments on the results, and to Dr. Leif 
Lyneborg and Dr. Ella Zimsen, who helped greatly with advice and 
hospitality during my visit in Copenhagen. 
Wiedemann (1828) discussed and redescribed most of Fabricius’ 
species, and later authors have largely depended on his interpretations, 
as he studied the Fabrician specimens. More recently Philip (i954? 
i960) has reported on a number of the Fabrician types, selected 
lectotypes, and corrected certain misidentifications. In the following 
list all the supposedly Neotropical Tabanidae described by Fabricius 
are cited, together with brief notes on their present condition, tax- 
onomic status and whether deriving from the Kiel (K.) collection 
or the Copenhagen (C.) collection. Types of all but two species 
were seen. The species are listed alphabetically by modern genera, 
or subgenera, the genus in which they were placed by Fabricius 
added in parentheses where this differs. 
As to the localities from which Fabricius’ material came, I do 
not have information more definite than given in his descriptions. 
It is noteworthy, however, that all of his species from “America 
meridionali”, except Chrysops moerens and possibly Fidena analis, 
have since been taken in Surinam or the Guianas. The localities of 
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