igii.] G. RiCARDO : The Oriental Tabanidae. 339 



Hacmatopota singularis, $ , Ricardo. 

 (PI. xviii, fig. 27.) 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), i, p. 58 (1908). 



Type (female) from Nhatrang, Annam, 22-X-1905 (Dr. \'assal). 



This species I had placed under H. cilipcs, Bigot, in mj- paper 

 on Haematopota in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xviii (August 

 1906), p. 126; but since that was published I have had the oppor- 

 tunity of examining the type of H. cilipcs in the Paris Museum, 

 and find this is quite a different species, not previousl}' described; 

 it is related to H. mhida, Ricardo, from Burma, in the wings 

 and also in the fringed incrassate hind tibiae, but differs from it in 

 having all the femora and tibiae fringed, in this resembling H. cili- 

 pes, Bigot, and H. lata, Ricardo, with which it should be placed in 

 the table on p. 114. It is a handsome small black species with 

 densely hairy legs, and is immediately noticeable by the pale 

 streak across the brown wings, which have no rosettes apparent, 

 thus differing with H. riibida considerably from the other described 

 species of Haematopota from the Oriental Region. In the shape of 

 the antennae it resembles H. ruhida, with the long incrassate first 

 joint, the very small second joint, and the broad basal division of 

 the third joint, the last division being small and short. 



Face grey, the whole upper part deep black, the lower half 

 grey, with white hairs ; the beard and under part of head also with 

 white hairs. Palpi yellow, with short black pubescence and some 

 longer white hairs. Frontal callus black, shining, narrow, almost 

 reaching the eyes ; forehead brownish, with grey markings surround- 

 ing the two black spots and continued across the forehead ; there 

 is a tuft of white hairs on each side of the forehead on the outer 

 border of the black spot and reaching the frontal callus ; on each 

 side of the forehead bordering the eyes there is a narrow grey bor- 

 der of tomentum. Antennae yellow, in shape as described above, 

 with long black pubescence on the first and second joints ; the third 

 is bare. Thorax black, with three short grey stripes, the centre 

 one shortest, none reaching the posterior border ; the sides grey ; 

 the posterior border of thorax is fringed with white hairs ; the pu- 

 bescence on the dorsum black, short, with some white pubescence 

 on the stripes and on the sides ; above the root of the wings there 

 is a black tuft of hairs, with some long white hairs below. Sciitcl- 

 lurn appears yellowish, bordered with a fringe of white pubescence. 

 Abdomen deep black, the second, third and fourth segments with 

 white segmentations ; the pubescence black, with white hairs on 

 the sides of the dorsum of second segment, on the white segmenta- 

 tions, and on the sides of the first segment, on the sides of the 

 other segments chiefly l)lack ; under side the same, but more 

 hairy. Legs all with fringes of black hairs, which arc least 

 thick on the middle femora ; they are brown in colour, with two 

 yellow rings on the middle and posterior tibiae, and the base of the 

 fore tibiae is yellow ; the middle and posterior femora are largely 

 yellow ; the fore tibiae and femora with wholly black fringes, long 



