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, Hcematopota bullatifrons is not closely allied to any of its African 

 congeners at present known ; the prominent, knob-like frontal 

 callus, to which the specific name refers, and the swollen and fringed 

 hind tibiae, marked with two pale bands, are clearly shown in the 

 figure. 



Haematopota brucei, Austen. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 8, Vol. I., p. 413 (1908). 

 PLATE XII., FIG. 88. 



The only specimen of this striking species yet received is the type, 

 which was forwarded from Unyoro, Uganda, in 1903, by Colonel 

 Sir David Bruce, C.B., R.A.M.C., F.R.S., in whose honour it has 

 been named. The differences between the present and the following 

 species (Hcematopota decora, Walk., see below, and Plate XII., 

 fig. 89) will readily be appreciated on comparing figs. 88 and 89. 



Haematopota decora, Walker. 



Insecta Saundersiana. Vol. I. Diptera. Part V., p. 454 (1856). 

 PLATE XII., FIG. 89. 



Hcematopota decora, Walk, (of which H. dorsalis, Lw., is a 

 synonym), is a widely distributed species, the range of which is 

 known to extend from Cape Colony to the Lado Enclave, and 

 north-westwards to French Congo, Northern Nigeria, and the 

 French Sudan. The localities, etc., of the thirteen females in the 

 Museum Collection are as follows. Natal (the type of the species, 

 without precise locality), before 1868 (from the Saunders Collection). 

 Nyasaland Protectorate : Deep Bay, Lake Nyasa, August 21st, 

 1908 (the late Captain Hallam Hardy, B.A.M.C.). Uganda : 

 Busoga, 1903 (Colonel Sir David Bruce, C.B., R.A.M.C., F.R.8.) ; 



