TEN NEW AFRICAN HAEMATOPOTA. 149 



Haematopota pallidicornis, sp. nov. (PI. II, fig. 10). 



$. Head (fig. 3) : Face and jowls mostly greyish, with rather short yellowish hair ; 

 an irregular dark patch beneath the antennae, a clearly defined dark brown patch on 

 €ach side of this touching the eyes, a dark transverse streak across the lower margin 

 of the face from the eyes to the bases of the palpi ; clypeal pits larger than usual and 

 shining dark brown, instead of dull greyish hke the ground-colour of the face. Front 

 rather dark brownish, with short black hair ; median spot minute ; lateral spots 

 rounded, almost touching the eyes, but some distance above the upper margin of the 

 callus. Frontal callus shining black, smooth, very prominent, moderately deep ; its 

 sides rounded and not quite reaching the eyes even at the wddest part ; upper margin 

 convex with a sUght upward projection in the middle. Spot below callus rather 

 small, velvet-black. Antennae almost uniformly light reddish-brown, terminal annuli 

 more brownish ; first joint dull, nearly cyHndrical, about three times as long as broad. 

 Palpi brownish, clothed with light and dark hair intermixed. 



Fig. 3. Haematopota pallidicornis, Edw., sp. n. 



Thorax dark greyish brown ; pale markings very much reduced, the median stripe 

 of the scutum being entirely absent ; lateral stripes short, narrow, not distinctly 

 reaching the post-sutural spots, which are inconspicuous ; a pair of somewhat rounded 

 grey spots in front of the scuteUum ; scutellum entirely Ught grey. Scutum and 

 scutellum rather densely clothed with pale yellowish pubescence, except for the middle 

 part of the former, which has short black hair instead ; the yellowish pubescence 

 appears to the naked eye to form a pair of slightly divergent pale stripes from the 

 front margin to the post-sutural spots ; it is also denser about the suture and before 

 the scutellum. Pleurae somewhat lighter, with whitish hair. 



Abdomen blackish brown above, the posterior margins of the segments conspicuously 

 whitish ; segments 4-6 with pairs of small elongate grey spots towards their bases ; 

 pubescence black, except at the posterior corners of the segments, where it is whitish. 

 Venter blackish, with conspicuous whitish pubescence towards the apices of the 

 segments. 

 (C288) d2 



