Nemotelus asiloides, De Geer Mem. vol. 6. t. 29. f. 6.
Habitat: New York, and other parts of North America.
Head black. Antennæ nearly the length of the thorax, black, slender, and knobbed at their extremities. Thorax black and smooth. Wings coppery brown, very membranaceous, and not transparent. Abdomen black, and composed of eight segments, the second being of a deep yellow; which colour extends only to its sides, the under part being black. Legs entirely black; the hinder ones being furnished with a strong spine at the tips of the tibiæ, the middle ones having four small ones, and the fore ones none. Each of the ungues has two small yellow scales (puvilli) placed underneath.
TABANUS PLUMBEUS.
Plate [XLIV]. fig. 2.
Order: Diptera. Section: Tabaniens, Latr. Family: Tabanidæ, Leach.
Genus. Tabanus, Linn, &c.
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.