The description in the above reference will not well apply to the two
following varieties of this species.
_Var. 1._ _Female._ Brown. Head testaceous in front and beneath.
Thorax with two testaceous stripes. Abdomen ferruginous, tawny
beneath and with a dorsal stripe of tawny triangular spots. Legs
blackish; femora and tibiæ partly testaceous. Wings dark grey.—_Var.
2._ Like Var. 1. Abdomen blackish above, with a dorsal stripe of
testaceous spots.
Mount Ophir. Inhabits also Borneo.
21. TABANUS PARTITUS, n. s., fœm. Nigricans, subtùs albidus, antennis
fulvis apice nigris, thorace cinerascente cano-quadrivittato,
abdomine piceo albido-trivittato, pedibus testaceis, femoribus
tibiisque apice tarsisque nigricantibus, alis subcinereis.
_Female._ Blackish; underside and head behind with whitish tomentum.
Antennæ dull tawny, black towards the tips; angle of the 3rd joint
minute and obtuse. Thorax greyish, with four hoary stripes. Abdomen
piceous, with three whitish stripes. Legs testaceous; tarsi and tips
of the femora and of the tibiæ blackish. Wings greyish, stigma and
veins black; fore branch of the cubital vein simple, nearly
straight. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 10 lines.
Singapore.
_Note._—_T. rubidus_, Wied., is very closely allied to the above
species, but may be distinguished from it by the following characters.
_T. rubidus._ Front with the callus quite entire. Antennæ blackish.
Middle stripe of the abdomen composed of triangular spots. Wings
greyish.
_T. partitus._ Smaller. Front with the callus almost interrupted.
Antennæ pale tawny, with darker tips. Middle stripe of the abdomen
entire, parallel. Wings quite limpid.
Gen. CHRYSOPS, _Meigen_.