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TEN NEW AERICAN HAEMATOPOTA. 



By F. W. Edwards. 



{Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



(Plate II.) 



A small number of Haematopota from the Congo were recently sent for determination 

 to the British Museum by M. E. Roubaud of the Pasteur Institute. Among these 

 were specimens of an interesting new species of the H. pertinens group, and as 

 M. Roubaud was kind enough to say that the type of this species might be deposited 

 in the British Museum, I undertook to describe it, including at the same time, at 

 Dr. G. A. K. Marshall's request, descriptions of a few of the numerous unrecorded 

 African species of this genus in the collections of the British Museum and the Imperial 

 Bureau of Entomology. The following is a hst of the ten new species described below, 

 with the countries from which they wore respectively obtained : — 



*H. pulchella, 

 *H. fasciatapex, 

 '\H. pallidicornis, 

 *H. crassicrus, 

 "fH. mordens, 

 *H. nefanda, 

 *H. obsolcta, 

 *H. rabida, 

 "fH. furians, 

 H. perturbans, 



sp 



n. 



Nyasaland. 



Nyasaland ; N.E. Rhodesia. 



S. Nigeria. 



British East Africa. 



Gold Coast (Northern Territories). 



Uganda. 



Nyasaland. 



Sierra Leone. 

 Congo. 



The tjTpes of the species marked * have been presented to the British Museum by 

 the Imperial Bureau of Entomology ; those marked f by the collectors. 



Descriptions of the wing-markings of Haematopota are difficult to Amte and still 

 more difficult to read, but they have been rendered entirely unnecessary by the 

 beautiful photographs prepared by Mr. A. Cant. The outhne drawings of the heads 

 have been made by Mr. A. J. E. Terzi with his usual accuracy and skill, and it is hoped 

 that with the aid of these figures and photographs, the short descriptions given will 

 be sufficient to enable the species to be recognised with certainty. 



Haematopota pulchella, sp. nov. (PI. II, fig. 4). 



?. Head (fig. 1) : Face and jowls whitish, with long white hair ; a pair of dark 

 brown spots adjoining each eye just below the antennae. Front rather dark brown, 

 margins narrowly light grey, more broadly so towards the vertex. Median frontal 

 spot absent ; lateral spots rather large, perpendicularly oval, usually bordered with 

 Ught brown. Frontal callus rather broad, wrinkled, extending from eye to eye, with 

 its upper margin gently convex ; in colour it is either entirely shining black or else 



