new Species o/Tabani. 323 



spots indistinct yellowish. The legs are rather darker thaa 

 tliose of T. gabonensis. 

 Length 16 rum. 



One of the specimens from Ashanti has the pubescence 

 on the tiioracic stripes and median abdominal stripe more 

 grey than yellow. 



Head large, wider than the thorax. Face covered with 

 wiiiti^li tonientum, which is yellowish brown above the 

 antenna?, the pubescence white, short, scantv ; beard white. 

 Palpi yellowish, the same shape as those of Tahanus claripes, 

 sp. 11., with black pubescence. The antennae are also similar 

 in shape, red, wiih black pubescence ; the third joint ia 

 wanting. Forehead yellowish brown; callus dark brown, 

 long, almost reaching the eyes, with a thick line proceeding 

 from it ; forehead on posterior half and at sides dark brown, 

 with black pubescence, the yellowish-brown colour only 

 apj)earing around the line proceeding from callus and at the 

 sides; the hind margin of head narrow, yellowish. Thorax 

 dark brown, with two broad median and two narrower sidii 

 stripes com])osed of greyish-yellow tonientum with yellow 

 pubescence, the pubescence on the dark part of the thorax 

 black. Scutellum brown, the yellow thoracic stripes reaching 

 its apex and continued round it. Abdomen rather short, 

 stout, dark reddish brown, the median continuous stripe 

 fidvous, reaching from the second to the fifth segment ; on 

 the sides of the second and third segments appear reddish- 

 yellow indistinct spots ; the pubescence of dorsum is yellowish 

 on the stri|)e, otherwise black, shoit, and thick ; underside 

 pale yellowish, with a dark brown broad median stripe; the 

 pubescence short, white on the jjale colour and black on the 

 dark stripe. L"gs blackish ; fore tibiie at base pale yellowish 

 red ; the middle and posterior tibite dull red on the basal 

 hali ; the pubescence on the coxaj white, on the femora black, 

 on the foie tibiae whitish on the pale colour, black at the 

 apex, on the other tibiaj it is black with some fulvous hairs ; 

 tarsi with black pubescence. Wings tinged pale brownish, 

 lighter in centre of cells ; no appendix. 



Tahanus clatipts, ? , sp, n. 



The following specimens are in the British .Miistum 

 collection : — 



The type (female) from Lcopoldville, Congo, Jan. 18, 1904 

 [coll. If IS. JJiiUvn, Toddj and Christy), presented by the 

 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, It'04. 267, is in the 

 Britisli Muscuuj collection. 



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