94 Mr. E. E. Austen on new 



Total length 560 ram. ; tail 100. 



A single female specimen from Inkongo, on the Sankiiru 

 River, in the Kassai Province of the Congo, presented by 

 Mr. H. Wilson. 



Atractaspis watsonii. 



Snout very short, feebly prominent. Portion of rostral 

 visible from above half as long as its distance from the 

 frontal ; suture between the internasals shorter than that 

 between the prefrontals ; frontal as long as broad, longer 

 than its distance from the end of the snout, as long as the 

 parietals ; one prae- and one postocular ; temporals small, 

 2 + 3 ; six upper labials, third and fourth largest, fourth 

 bordering the eye ; first lower labial in contact with its 

 follow behind the symphysial; three lower labials in contact 

 with the chin-shields. Scales in 29 rows. Ventrals 222 ; 

 anal entire ; subcaudals 29, mostly single (last 8 paired). 

 Uniform black. 



Total length 570 mm. ; tail 45. 



A single female specimen from Sokoto, Upper Niger, 

 presented by Mr. C. F. Watson. 



XII I. — New African Phlebotomic Diptera in the British Museum 

 (Natural History). — Part III. Tabanidce {continued). 

 By Ernest E. Austen *. 



Ta~baninm. 



Genus KLematopota, Mg. (continued). 



Hamatopota copemanii, sp. n. 



$ . — Length (15 specimens) 9*5 to 11 mm. ; width of head 

 2"6 to 2"8 mm. ; width of front at vertex 1 to 1*2 mm. ; length 

 of wing 8*4 to 9'6 mm. 



Yellowish grey ; dorsum of thorax with four dark brown 

 longitudinal stripes, dorsum of abdomen with a broad longitu- 

 dinal dark brown stripe on each side of middle line, starting 

 from base and usually becoming attenuated or dying away 

 towards distal extremity, narrowly interrupted on hind margins 

 of segments ; frontal callus clove-brown f, sometimes lighter in 



* For Parts I. and II. see Ann. & Mao\ Nat. Hist. ser. 8, vol. i. 

 pp. 209-228 and 401-428. 



f For names and illustrations of colours, see Bidgway, ' A Nomen- 

 clature of Colors for Naturalists ' (Boston : Little, Brown, & Company, 

 1886). 



