TABANUS PLUMBEUS. Obscurè coccinelleus, abdomine marginibus posticis
pallidioribus, alis sublimpidis costâ fuscâ, antennis brunneo-rufis.
(Long. Corp. 1 unc.)
SYN. Tabanus plumbeus, _Drury, App. vol._ 2.
Tabanus ruficornis, _Fabr. Syst. Ent._ 789. 8. _Syst. Antl._ 96. 14.
_Weidemann Auss. Zw._ Ins. 1. 112.
Tabanus Americanus, _Forster Novæ Sp. Insect. Cent._ 1. 100.
Tabanus limbatus, _Pal. Beauvois Ins. d'Afr. & d'Amer. Dipt. t._ 1. _f._
2.
HABITAT: New York, Virginia, &c. North America.
Head ash-coloured. Eyes nearly black. Antennæ red brown. Only one
ocellus, placed a little above the antennæ. Proboscis almost equal in
length to the depth of the head. Thorax dark greenish-brown coloured;
having a white spot at the base of each wing. Abdomen dark brown colour;
each segment being on the under side margined with grey. Wings
transparent; anterior edges brown and opake. Legs dark brown; the middle
ones having two spines at the tips of each of the tibiæ. The ungues have
two small brown scales under them. Breast hairy and ash-coloured, but
white on the sides.