of the Familij Tabanidm. 103 



Face grey ; the spots uiulcr the antenna) arc red rather 

 than bhick, as is also the transverse stripe, which is in- 

 distinct and broken up into red dot-like spots. Palpi reddish, 

 with dense black pubescence above and some grey hairs 

 below. Antennje rather long, the first joint light yellow, 

 cyliuilrical, but not very slender, with black pubescence; the 

 second the same colour, with similar pubescence; the third 

 reddish, only the last divisions black, a little longer than the 

 first two joints together. Frontal callus the same colour as 

 the first antennal joint, slightly lunate in front, very slightly 

 sinuous on the posterior border, narrow, reaching the eyes ; 

 there is a faint brown double s[)ot between the antennae ; 

 the paired spots are brown, large, touching the eyes, the 

 unpaired spot nearly as large, brown ; the forehead yellowish 

 brown, with grey pubescence. Thorax red-brown, with 

 narrow grey stripes, the outer ones only reaching the suture 

 and ending in the usual spots ; sides of thorax and breast 

 greyish; scutellum yellow-brown, with grey pubescence. 

 Abdomen yellow-brown, darker at the apex, the spots on 

 the sitles of the segments very distinct and large, the median 

 ones indistinct ; the sides of the first three segments are 

 grey, also the posterior borders of the segments ; the pubes- 

 cence is chiefly grey ; the underside of abdomen faint red, 

 with grey tomentum and pubescence. Legs yellowish, the 

 rings on the middle and posterior legs dark brown ; the 

 tarsi black, as are also the fore tibiae on the apical half. 

 Wings grevish brown, the white markings conspicuous, 

 especially so at the opening of the fifth posterior cell ; the 

 apical band sinuous, single; veins yellowish brown ; there is 

 a distinct ocellus above the brown stigma; all the posterior 

 cells except the fourth with clear margins, that of the fifth 

 being the largest. 

 Length 9 mm. 



PI. IIL fig. 2, type (female). 



A smaller specimen from Cape Town seems identical. It 

 liardly seems probable that the male described by Maequart 

 as H. ritficurnis is identical with the above, as suggested by 

 "Walker; Maequart describes his species as blackish, and 

 says the third joint of the antennae is a little shorter than 

 the first joint ; the locality is Port Natal. 



Hcematopota nigrescens, ? , sp. n. 



Tvpe (female), Altri-iga, Mawe, B. E. Africa (C. S. Bettun), 

 1900. 35, 13. iii.-4. v. 99. 



A small black-grey species with yellow antennae and yellow 

 legs ; the first joint of the antennae short. 



