277 



Length 14J, nun. 



Head wider lluui the thoiux. Face covered with w'liti.sh- 

 grcy ton)entuni and with white pubescence; beard whit;. 

 Palpi a little stout at base, ending in a rather obtuse ))oint, 

 reddish, covered with dense white pubescence and some short 

 bh\ck hairs towards the apex on the ui^per border. Antenuse 

 reddi.sii, darker at the apex, the first joint cylindrical, rather 

 smaller than usual, the second very small, both witli black 

 [)ubescence ; the third long-, with tooth very near the base 

 and small, the first division wvtli i2:rey tomentum. Subcailu-j 

 reddish brown, shining;, furrowed in centre, with some grey 

 tonientuin chiefly round base of antennse. B^orehead not so 

 narrow as in the species belonging to T. par group, one 

 width throughout, about four times as long as it is broad, 

 blackish, covered with grey tomentum ; the frontal callus the 

 same colour as the subcallus, almost square, not quite 

 reaching the eyes, the line proceeding from it short, thick ; a 

 dark, shining, small, oblong spot on vertex; there are white 

 hairs on each side of the frontal callus and at its base. Back 

 of head whitish, with black pubescence. Thorax black, 

 somewhat shining, with the beginnings of three grey median 

 stripes, and with some grey tomentum ; otherwise bare; sides 

 reddish, with black hairs. Breast brown, with grey tomen- 

 tum and some white pubescence. Soutelluni blackish, with 

 grey tomentum and some white pubescence. Abdomen 

 uniformly reddish yellow, with the last three segments 

 brownish or blackish, pubescence black, short ; underside 

 identical, but with some whitish tomentum. Legs black, with 

 black pubescence; the tibiie pale yellowish white, with 

 whitish pubescence, black at their extreme apex, the fore 

 tibiie more witlely so. Wings hyaline, veins brown, stigma 

 yellow; no appendix; the first posterior cell widely open. 



Talnxmis viorsi'fans, ? , sji. n. 



'J'he following specimens are in tlv; British ^NFu^eum 

 collection : — 



Type (female) from Somaliland {(Jupf. R. E. Drake 

 Brukinan)^ 1905, and two other females from iSomaliland 

 {('<il>t. iSivajjne), 9-4. 201 (damag'd). 



This fly is believed by the donor (('apt. Brokman) to dis- 

 seminate a disease which is fatal to horses and mules and 

 occurs in certain districts at times when th", flv is also found. 

 " Letter from donor to Mr. E. F. Fagan, 20. v. 0.5." The 

 two specimens collected by (^apt. 8wayn(! are mentioned in 

 a note in ' Monograph of Tsetze Flies' by Mr. E. E. Austen 

 on page o67 as representing " Balaad," a lly callcil thus by 



