110 Miss G. Hicaido on the Genus Ilaematopota 



more exact determination; the legs are rather darker than 

 the author describes in his species and no median grey line 

 is apparent on the abdomen. 



There are two specimens from the same locality, likewise 

 badly preserved ; in the wings the light colour is almost 

 entirely broken up into minute spots; probably they will 

 prove to be a new species. 



Hamatopota decora, ? , Walker [//. dorsuVis, Loew] . 



Type (female), Saunders Coll., 68. 4, Natal ; and seven 

 females from Busoga, Uganda [Bruce), 1903. 270. 



These specimens have not the stripes of the thorax con- 

 tinuous as in table i. fig. 33 of Loew^s 'Diptera Slidafrika/ 

 but interrupted at the suture for a space; otherwise they 

 agree with Loew's description ; his type came from Caffraria, 

 S. Africa. The figure of the antenn?e in his fig. 34 is 

 evidently incorrect, the first joint being very much incrassate 

 and the third joint much broader than usual, as noted in the 

 text. 



PI. IV. fig. 9, type (female) . 



HcBmatopota guineensis, ? , Bigot. 



Type (female) from Abyssinia. 



This species was first named H. cordigera, but was changed 

 to the above naiue by the author, cordigera being already 

 used, for a species from Asia. The type was described with 

 the antennje incomplete, only the first two joints remaining; 

 these are cylindrical, yellow in colour. The frontal callus 

 is pitchy brown, broad, produced on its hind border, almost 

 straight on the anterior border ; the paired spots large, brown, 

 reaching the eyes ; the unpaired spot is very small and 

 indistinct ; the spots on the face are brown and the trans- 

 verse broAvn stripe is placed on a line with them, nearly 

 joining them. The thorax is reddish brown, with three 

 narrow grey stripes, the outer ones ending at the suture iu 

 the usual spots; there are also half-moon spots at the base 

 of the thorax ; scutellum the same colour, with grey 

 tomcntum ; the abdomen is brownish, yellower at the base, 

 and the posterior margins of the segments are lighter 

 coloured. Legs yellowish brown, the fore tarsi somewhat 

 dilated. "Wings brown-grey, the extreme apex clear ; veins 

 and stigma brown ; the apical sinuous line begins below apex, 

 reaching the posterior branch of the third vein, where it 

 joins another short band from the anterior branch. 

 Length 9 mm. 



PI. IV. tig. 10, type (female). 



