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borders of third and fourth segments^ deepest in centre, li<jht 

 (jrey. 



Head grey pollinose, face and jowls clothed with white 

 hair; front narrowing anteriorly ; /rora^a/ callus somewhat 

 elongate, extending from eye to eye below, narrower above; 

 palpi fairly broad at base, then tapering rapidly, cream-bufF, 

 clothed with whitish hair; first two joints of antenna: 

 greyish, their uj)per angles blackish, first joint clothed for 

 the most part with whitish hair, third joint clove-brown, its 

 basal portion broad. Thorax : some yellowish hairs near 

 anterior margin of dorsum, between the stripes ; hair on 

 latter whitish ; pectus and pleural greyish pollinose, clotlied 

 with whitish hair; scutel'um clove-brown, paler at extreme 

 base. Abdomen : grey markings clothed with whitish hairs, 

 ground-colour with blackish or dark brown hair; venter 

 grey, with clove-brown cross-band at base of each segment, 

 except first and second, which are entirely grey, and last 

 segment, which is entirely clove-brown ; erect coarse black 

 hair on under side of lust segment long. Wings hyaline, 

 stigma inconspicuous ; squamae brownish. Halteres walnut- 

 brown. Legs : femora dark greyish brown ; tibiae, except 

 tips, cream-buff ; front tarsi and tips of front tibiae black ; 

 middle and hind tarsi, and tips of middle and hind tibiae, seal- 

 brown ; front tarsi expanded ; femora and tibiic clothed with 

 whitish or yellowish-white hair ; whitish hairs also present 

 on upper side of first three tarsal joints. 



Nyasaland Protectorate (British Central Africa) : a single 

 specimen from Katunibc, Noith Nyasa, 6. xii. 1906 [Dr. J. 

 E. S. Old). The collector's field-note with reference to this 

 fly is as follows : — " Country, swampy jungle, with very tall, 

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

 were bushbuck, waterbuck, and wart-hog ; old eland spoor 

 plentiful, and that of buffalo some months old.'' This 

 species has been named after Sir Alfred Sharpe, K.C.M.G., 

 C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Nyasaland 

 Protectorate, whose efforts on behalf of the big game of the 

 territory under his administration have eutitlctl him to the 

 gratitude of all who have the welfare of the African fauna at 

 heart. 



For affinities of 7\ sliarpei see notes on T. u-ellmonii above. 

 Besides the differences already mentioned, T. sharpei can be 

 distinguisiied from T. vellmunii by the hyaline wings, the 

 practical abser.ce of the stigma, and the narrower front 

 tarsi, in which the angles of the expanded joints arc more 

 rounded and much less produced. From T. argenteus, 



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