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pony ; common " (Dr. R. E. Drake-Brockmari). Somaliland, precise 

 locality unknown, 1894 (TTi. Greenfield). West Somaliland : Odajida, 

 River Dinnick, November 10th, 1908, "on cattle ; scarce" (Dr. R. E. 

 Drake-Brockman). Abyssinia : River Daro, Arussi Country, October 

 18th, 1908, " caught on cattle " (Dr. R. E. Drake-Brockman). The 

 Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, possesses examples of 

 Hcematopota mactans from Mozambique, 1905 (O. Vasse) ; the bed of 

 the Dakato River, Ogaden, Somaliland, June, 1901 (Dr. E. Brumpt) ; 

 and the Errer River, south of Harrar, Abyssinia, August, 1901 

 (Dr. E. Brumpt). 



One of Dr. Old's specimens from Katumbe, Nyasaland 

 Protectorate, was accompanied by the following field-note : 

 " Caught biting cattle : country swampy jungle, with very tall 

 coarse reeds, and forest with low trees. Only game seen were 

 bushbuck, waterbuck, and warthog ; old spoor of eland plentiful, 

 as also that of buffalo some months old." According to Dr. Drake- 

 Brockman, H. mactans was very common along the Dawa River, 

 in the north-eastern corner of the East Africa Protectorate, in 

 November and December, 1908. 



Haematopota coronata, Austen. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 8, Vol. II., p. 100 

 (1908), and ibid., p. 279 (description of male). 



PLATE XII., FIG. 91. 



African specimens of this species have hitherto been received 

 only from Somaliland, whence the Museum possesses three 

 females (including the type), taken in June, 1905 (Dr. R. E. 

 Drake-Brockman) ; the National Collection, however, also includes 

 a male from Haithalhim, near Aden, Arabia, March 20th, 1895 

 (Lieut. -Colonel Yerbury). Three females of Hcematopota coronata, 

 collected in the Ogaden country, Somaliland, between the Webi 

 Shebeli and the Web, in September, 1901 (Dr. E. Brumpt), are in 

 the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 



