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Nile Province, 1906, "taken on a native" (the late Dr. W. A. 

 Densham). Northern Nigeria: Illorin, August, 1904, "also found 

 on road from Illorin to Ogudu ; not noticed until about the middle 

 of June " (the Medical Officer, Illorin ; received from Sir F. D. 

 Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O.) ; Kontagora, May 21st, 1907 

 (J. Brand). 



In addition to the foregoing, the writer has also examined a 

 number of specimens of Hcematopota decora belonging to the Museum 

 National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, of which the following are the 

 localities and other details : Delagoa Bay, Portuguese East Africa 

 (Mrs. Monteiro) ; Lado Enclave, alt. 1100 metres, October, 1902 

 (Du Bourg de Bozas Expedition) ; French Congo, January, 1907 

 (E. Roubaud) ; and Kouri, Upper Volta, French Sudan (Dr. 

 Bouffard). 



Haematopota mactans, Austen. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 8, Vol. II., p. 106 



(1908). 



PLATE XII., FIG. 90. 



So far as can be judged from the specimens already examined, 

 the range of Hcematopota mactans, which has not yet been received 

 from West Africa, extends from Mozambique to Somaliland and 

 Abyssinia. The following are the localities, etc., of the thirty-two 

 females of this species in the National Collection. North- Western 

 Rhodesia: Kasempa District, 1908 (E. A. Copeman). Nyasaland 

 Protectorate : Blantyre District, May, 1905, and Katumbe, North 

 Nyasa, December 6th, 1906 (Dr. J. E. S. Old) ; Nkata Bay, Lake 

 Nyasa, July 28th and August 20th, and Deep Bay, August 21st, 

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

 Wadelai, Nile Province, November 24th, 1904 (Captain E. D. W. 

 Greig, I. M.S.). East Africa Protectorate : Baila, Dawa River, 

 December 8th, 1908, "caught on pony; common"; Malka Duggah, 

 Dawa River, December 9th and 10th, 1908, " caught on self and on 



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