INSECTS. DIPTERA. lol. Tabanus. 
6^(3 
Lcucofm. 
Abdomen black, tbe edges “of the fegments pellucid: 
id' 
of the legs \vhtte 
Inhabits Soiitc im.r^ca. Denser. Inf, 6 . tah. 2g. fg. 8 
Size of a coirmon Wsl'p A 
groove oa t’:e' hark : 
fegment ef the abuormn beue.ith red. 
uher ftiorf, the brittle placed i? 
Alt' back : aMennug twice as long as .the head : 
fil 
Bilincata. 
Black vvijh 2 white lines bn the thorax : Clianks f-rf'e' 
nous at the bafe. 
Inhabits New Zealand. Muh:nm of Sir J-if Bevk’. , , j 
’Thorax hairy : . hdo:nen lubcoinc elongated : ’ivingi white 
a blatk Outer margin, 
B*eh}arivo- gj^ck ; antennae cylindrical perfoliate : wings white- 
Found on the flowers of fruic-trccr, svhere it fits the vvhole^ - 
exirafting nertar. jBoi/y ftiiall oblong. 
101. TABANUS.' Mouth mth a'ftraig’;^^ 
cxierted membranaceous [irobofeis, 
ininated by I2 equal lips: fucker 
jc6ling cxierted and placed in a grooY 
on the back of tlie probofeis, '"'0^ . 
a fingle-valvcd ih.cath and .5 briflleS' 
, • feelers '■Z, equal, elarate and ending 
a point : antennae lliort approxiinii^ 
cylindrical, with an elevated tooth at t*’ 
bafe. 
Thcfe infefls live by fncking, out the blood of various 
of which they are very greedy : the lar<vRe arc found 
ground, in tnoift meadows : the colour of the eyes vany 
when the infcA is dead, but may be roflored by placing 
warm water. 
Roflraiu. m Eyesbrownilli : fucker as long us the hotly. 
Inhabits the Cape of good hope 
Segments of the abdomen cinereous downy at the tip, 
Barbatu. Eyes black : fucker half as long as the body. 
Inhabits the Cape of good hope, Muf Lud. Ulr, 422. 
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Ha-'.lielLtus Eyesbrownifh : abdomen black, with' fulvous down 
margin; fcuckcr half as long as the body. 
