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18. List of South African Tabanidae (Dipt era) in the South 

 African Museum, with Descriptions of New Species. By 



MlSS G. ElCAEDO. 



PANGONINAE. 



GENUS PANGONIA, Latr. 

 Hist. Nat. d. Crust, et. d. Ins. iii. p. 437 (1802). 



PANGONIA HOTTENTOTA, n. sp. 



TYPE, female, and another female from Cape Colony (Bushman- 

 land, Jackals Water, and Een Eiet, E. M. Lightfoot). 



A species allied to Pangonia bifasciata, Wied. Abdomen yellowish 

 with black median spots on the anterior half, the posterior half 

 blackish with a grey band. Antennae and legs black. Wings tinged 

 with brown, the first posterior cell closed. Length 15-16i mm., 

 proboscis 8 mm. Face covered with greyish white tomentum and 

 with yellowish or white pubescence, which is thickest and longest 

 on the cheeks. Beard the same colour. Palpi black, pubescent, 

 pointed. Proboscis black. Antennae black, the first two joints with 

 a few hairs on their upper borders. Forehead wide, darker coloured 

 than the face, with some scattered white and black hairs, width at 

 vertex 1| mm. Eyes naked. Thorax dark olive green, covered with 

 short ferruginous pubescence, anteriorly with some longer whitish 

 hairs, a tuft of white hairs above wings ; breast with a broad stripe 

 of white hairs similar to the tuft. Scutellum covered with ferru- 

 ginous pubescence. Abdomen reddish yellow, the first segment with 

 a small black spot below the scutellurn, the second with a large 

 median spot, the third with a similar spot, a faint whitish tomentose 

 band is apparent on the posterior border of the second segment, on 

 the third segment at sides appears another black spot, the fourth 

 segment reddish yellow with a grey tomentose posterior border, 

 anteriorly it is largely black, last segments wholly black, the 

 pubescence yellowish or white on the lighter parts and on grey band, 

 elsewhere black : underside inflated, reddish yellow, reddish brown 

 on the anterior borders of third and fourth segments, the grey band 



