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very large, crescent shaped, the first Joint small and insignificant. 

 Proboscis short, hardly longer than the palpi. Beard reddish. 

 Antcnnae the same colour as face, the first two joints short with 

 some black pubescence, the third very long, with five divisions, the 

 first division more than twicc as long as the last four divisions with 

 a long tooth or branch springing from its base, and equal in length 

 to it. Forehead a deeper colour than face, the ocelli at vertex 

 large and pale yellow, forehead at vertex narrow, anteriorly nearly 

 half as wide again, in the other female only a third wide. Eyes 

 bare with equal facets. Thorax brownish with yellow tomentum 

 disposed as two stripes, sides and posterior border yellowish, 

 Shoulders with reddish hairs. Scutellum brown with traces of 

 pale tomentum. Abdomen orange on the first two segments, 

 the other segments blackish brown with pale segmentations, under- 

 side appears identical. Legs uniform in colour, bare looking, 

 with very short reddish pubescence. Wings in type discoloured, 

 in the other female blackish brown, the extreme base, the base of 

 the submarginal cell and a double spot above the stigma in the 

 marginal cell cxtending into the submarginal cell, pale yellow, 

 besidesthese spotsthere are pales streaksinthe basal, discal, anal, 

 and most of the posterior cells. 



Tabaninae. 



Group I. 



Tahamis ajricanus Gray. 



A female from West Africa (Dr. Stuhlmann). 



Tabanus fasciatus Fabr. 



A female from Sierra Leone. 



Group IL 



Tabanus quadriguttatus Ricardo. 



Females from Nguelo and Buliva, Usambara, Uganda. 



The type in the British Museum came from the samcdistrict. 



Tabanus obscurefumatus Surcouf. 



Two females from Kameroon (L. Conradt). The type came 

 from French Congo, and the species has also been recorded from 

 S. Nigeria. 



Group II L 



Tabanus biguttatus Wied. 



One male from Algoa Bay, Cape Town (Dr. Brauns, Licht- 

 ward t Coli.). ' i 



Females from Durban, Natal (P. Reineck); Fast Africa 

 (Lichtwardt Coli.). 



Group IV. 



Tabanus ruficrus Pal. Beauv. 



One female from Old Calabar, W. Africa, 19, 1902. 



Tabanus hesti Surcouf. 



Females from Joli. Albreclitshölie, Kameroon (L. Conradt). 



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