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marginal angles of posterior cells (sometimes wanting in first 

 and fourth posterior cells), a Larger or smaller light blotch 

 also occupying distal angle of axillary cell and sometimes 

 extending into distal angle of anal and proximal marginal 

 angle of fifth posterior cell ; basal cells with markings of 

 normal type; anal cell with zigzag mark and basal loop 

 conspicuous and with a more or less distinct connection 

 running along anal angle : a light spot, sometimes divided 

 into two, on sixth longitudinal vein beyond zigzag mark; 

 discal cell in middle third with two transverse light marks, 

 each usually divided into two spots, also with larger or 

 smaller light spot in proximal angle, and sometimes with 

 similar spot or transverse mark near distal extremity ; stigma 

 well marked, dark mummy-brown, its proximal extremity 

 cream-buff; marginal cell with small light loop enclosing 

 dark centre immediately beyond distal extremity of stigma. 

 Halteres : knob cream-buff, slightly brownish at base above 

 and below, stalk cream-coloured. Leys : front tibiae in- 

 crassate, hind tibiae not swollen : proximal two-thirds of 

 first joint of middle and hind tarsi cream-buff. 



Nyasaland Protectorate : two specimens fco-types) from 

 the Zomba Plateau [Sir Alfred Sharpe, K.C.M.G., C.B.); 

 a third specimen from Kasungu Mt., Nyika, 4. iii. J896 

 (Captain Richard Crawshay) ; a fourth example of this 

 species (which I have been enabled to examine by the 

 courtesy of Lt. -Colonel Manders, R.A.M.C.) from the 

 Aufiri River, Nyasaland Protectorate, 10. xii. 1907 (Captain 

 .11 nil am Hardy, R. A.M. C), is in the collection of the Royal 

 Army Medical Corps College, Millbank, S.W. 



In the markings of its wings, especially as regards the 

 shape and direction of the apical sinuous mark, Hamatopota 

 insatiabilis closely resembles 11. divisapex, Austen, the co- 

 types of which are from the Katanga District of the Congo 

 Free State; the new species, however, may be distinguished 

 from the latter by the dark and much more swollen first 

 joint of the antennae, and by its hind tibire having two pale 

 bands, instead of only a single pale band at the base. 



Hcematopota taciturna, sp. n. 



? . — Length (1 specimen) 9*5 mm. : width of head 3 mm. ; 

 width of front at vertex 1 mm. ; length of wing 8'2 mm. 



Dark sepia-coloured; frontal callus deep, clove-brown and 

 prominent ; antenna clove-brown, first joint strongly incrassate ; 

 dorsum of thorax with usual three longitudinal stripes smoke- 

 grey ; dorsum of abdomen with hind border of each seyment 



