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and fringed beneath with whitish hair ; tibiae with a broad whitish ring close to the 

 base, and a much narrower and indistinct brownish ring nearer the tip ; metatarsi 

 pale on the basal two-thirds. 



Wings smoky, with darker clouds over the cross- veins ; on the hind margin are 

 two conspicuous white spots in the second and fifth posterior cells. Squamae dark. 

 Halteres entirely cream-coloured. 



(^. Very similar to the female, but the hair on the first anteimal joint, the pleurae, 

 the hind femora and the under side of the abdomen is longer and denser ; the tip of 

 the abdomen is less darkened and the pale hind borders of the tergites are less 

 noticeable. 



Length (without antennae, average specimen), 12'5 mm. ; wing-length, 11mm.; 

 width of head, 4'1 mm. ; width of front at vertex, l"2 mm. 



Nyasaland : Mt. Mlanje, 30.x.-2.xii.l913, commonest at about 3,000 ft. 

 {S. A. Neave). 



A series of two males and about 200 females is in the possession of the Imperial 

 Bureau of Entomology, of which the males and 17 females have been presented to the 

 British Museum. 



H. pulchella is apparently most nearly allied to H. alluaudi. Sure, and H. distincta, 

 Ric, but may easily be distinguished by the obsolescence of the outer pale baud on 

 the hind tibiae and by the two conspicuous white spots on the hind margin of the 

 wing. What is apparently a melanic form of H. alluaudi was also found commonly 

 by Mr. Neave on Mt. Mlanje, but occurred chiefly at higher altitudes. H. pulchella 

 also bears a considerable, though quite superficial, resemblance to H. neavei, Aust. 



Haematopota fasciatapex, sp. no v. (PI. II, fig. 6). 



0. Head (fig. 2) : Face and jowls light grey, with whitish hair ; the former with 

 some brownish speckling on the upper part towards the eyes. Front rather light 



Fig. 2. Tlasmatopota fas<nalapcx, Eilw sp. n, 



grepsh-brown, with short black hair ; median spot small or absent ; lateral spots 



large, round, touching the eyes, and also almost touching the upper margin of the 



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