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.
TABANUS AMERICANUS.
Plate [XLIV]. fig. 3.
Order: Diptera. Section: Tabaniens. Family: Tabanidæ.
Genus. Tabanus, Linn. &c.
Tabanus Americanus. Niger, abdomine canescente, alis fusco-nigris. (Long. Corp. circ. 11 lin.)
Syn. Tabanus Americanus, Drury, App. vol. 2. (nec Forster.)