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incriminate the Hcematopota as animal disease carriers, especially, 

 I think, H. decora." In the Nyasaland Protectorate H. noxialis, 

 Austen, is said by Major F. B. Pearce, C.M.G., to be an " especially 

 virulent species, complained of by natives as injuring, if not actually 

 killing, their cattle." 



Haematopota fulva, Austen. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 8, Vol. I., p. 218 (1908). 



PLATE XI., FIG. 84. 



Up to the present time this remarkable species has been received 

 only from Benguella, Angola, whence the Museum possesses the 

 type and five other females, all of which were captured in February, 

 1905 (Dr. F. Creighton Wellman). The collector's field-note is as 

 follows : " Found in sedgy and grass-grown marshes, near large 

 streams. Like others of its genus, a vicious biter ; fairly active ; 

 twelve specimens taken." 



When Hcematopota fulva was described, no other species of the 

 genus with a similar coloration was known from any part of the 

 world. Within the last few months however, Prof. Bezzi has 

 described,* under the name Chrysozona (Hcematopota) ochracea, 

 a species from the Congo Free State, which is stated to be very 

 closely allied to Hcematopota fulva, Austen, and to differ from it in 

 the presence of a median frontal spot, the absence of a black tip 

 to the antennae, in the dorsum of the thorax being more distinctly 

 striped, and in the presence of a series of hyaline spots along the 

 posterior margin of the wings. 



* Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, T. LIL, p. 375 (1908). 



