_Female._ Deep black, very minutely punctured. Head smooth; antennae piceous; tarsi whitish; wings blackish cinereous, veins black; halteres snow-white. Length of the body 2 lines; of the wings 4 lines. Fam. TABANIDAE, _Leach_. Gen. TABANUS, _Linn._ 21. TABANUS RECUSANS, n. s. _Foem._ Piceus, cinereo-subtomentosus, callo nigro angusto, antennis rufis apice nigris, humeris rufescentibus, abdomine basi glaucescente, tibiis obscure ferrugineis, alis nigro-fuscis, apice margineque postico cinereis. _Female._ Piceous, slightly covered with cinereous tomentum. Callus of the head black, long, slender, entire; antennae red, black towards the tips, angle of the third joint very small; thorax reddish on each side in front of the forewings; abdomen with glaucous tomentum towards the base; tibiae mostly dark ferruginous; wings blackish-brown, cinereous towards the tips and along the hind border; veins black; forebranch of the cubital vein simple, very slightly undulating, its tip, like that of the radial vein, clouded with blackish-brown. Length of the body 6-1/2 lines; of the wings 12 lines. Fam. ASILIDAE, _Leach_. Subfam. DASYPOGONITES, _Walk._ Gen. DASYPOGON, _Fabr._ 22. DASYPOGON INOPINUS, n. s. _Foem._ Piceus, facie aurata, mystace parvo albo, antennis ferrugineis, apices versus nigris, capite transverso longioribus, articulo tertio lineari, pectore fasciis tribus canis, abdominis segmentis ferrugineo fasciatis, alis luridis, apud costam nigro-fuscis, halteribus testaceis. _Female._ Piceous. Face flat, brightly gilded; epistoma not prominent; mystax with a few white bristles; mouth black; antennae ferruginous, black towards the tips, longer than the breadth of the head; third joint linear, longer than the first and the second together; pectus with three hoary bands; abdomen subclavate, nearly twice the length of the thorax; a ferruginous band on the hind border of each segment; legs mostly ferruginous; wings lurid, blackish-brown towards the costa, veins black; halteres testaceous. Length of the body 8 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 23. DASYPOGON HONESTUS, n. s. Lutescente-fulvus, capite, antennis, pedibus alisque nigris, thorace vitta schistacea nigro marginata vittisque duabus lateralibus cinereis, pectore postico nigro, abdomine ----?, tibiis tarsisque posticis fulvis. Luteous-tawny. Head, antennae, hind part of the pectus, and legs black, shining; mystax with very few bristles; antennae almost as long as the breadth of the head, third joint long, slender, linear; thorax with a slate-coloured blackish-bordered stripe, a short slate-coloured stripe on each side; abdomen wanting; hind tibiae and tarsi tawny; wings blackish, veins black. Length of the body 4? lines; of the wings 7 lines. Subfam. LAPHRITES, _Walk._ Gen. LAPHRIA, _Fabr._ 24. Laphria scapularis, _Wied. Auss. Zweifl._ 1. 516. 29. Inhabits also Java. 25. Laphria aurifacies, _Macq._ See Vol. I. p. 10.