318 Miss G. Ricardo on 



prolonged in a narrow line, which enlarges spindle-shaped, 

 almost reaching the vertex ; the tomentura bordering it is 

 yellowish. Eyes bare, with no markings. Thorax reddish 

 brown, with traces of black stripes, one broad and two lateral 

 stripes, the red ground-colour appearing between as narrow 

 lines, the dorsum with grey tomentum ; the sides and breast 

 reddish brown, with grey tomentum ; the scutellum blackish. 

 Abdomen light reddish brown, the segmentations very faintly 

 yellow ; tiie black stripe composed of oblong black spots on 

 each segment, begiiniing from the second, almost joining, 

 and giving the appearance of a continuous narrow black 

 stripe on which no grey tomentum or spots appear ; on the 

 first segment there is an indistinct median black spot, on the 

 fifth and sixth segments the stripe is broader, and the seventh 

 segment is almost entirely black ; the lateral margins of the 

 fifth and sixth are yellow, transparent; the pubescence on the 

 dorsum is black and short, thickest on the sides, sometimes 

 there are traces of yellow pubescence on the segmentations ; 

 on the seventh segment the black hairs are long ; underside 

 same colour, with no black stripe visible, but the apex black. 

 Legs blackish brown, the tibiie the same colour as the abdo- 

 men, the fore tibiae brown at the apex, the tarsi brown on 

 their apical joints ; the pubescence on the coxae and femora 

 whitish and the femora with whitish tomentum, some few 

 yellow hairs on the fore tibi« ; otherwise the pubescence is 

 black, short, not very noticeable. Wings hyaline, tinged 

 with brown, darkest on the fore border ; tlie appendix, when 

 present, is short, thick, and indistinct (ontwoot the specimens 

 it is entirely absent), the stigma brown, veins brown, all cells 

 widely open. 



Tabanus kingsleyi, ? , sp. n. 



The following specimens are in the British Museum 

 collection : — 



Type (female) from Port Lokkoh, Sierra Leone, April 

 1904 {Major F. Smith), 1904. 143; and four other females, 

 on one of which is attached the following note : — " Nume- 

 rous, no other species about ; bit donor severely in the house, 

 several hundred yards from the water. Dry season, April." 

 One female from near Baiwalla, Sierra Leone, June 1903 

 {Dr. H. J. Conyngham), 1903. 292. 



A species belonging to the group of Tabanus tcemola, Macq., 

 with the typical light abdominal stripes bordered by darker 

 ones, but bearing some resemblance to Tabanus gabonensis, 

 Macq., and Tabanus secedens, Wlk. ; distinguished from them. 



