African Phlehotomic Dipte.ra, 419 



base ahovo and ])elow. Legs : femora buff"; front tibifc and 

 tarsi dark brown^ with a whitish or cream-bufl" baud on 

 former near base ; middle and hind tibise and tarsi light 

 brown or brownish, two bands on tibiae and first joint of tarsi 

 except tip cream-buff; front tibiie not or scarcely incras.sate. 



North-western Rhodesia: Lunga River, Kasempa District, 

 7. ix. 19. )7 ; on roan antelope {Hipjjotruyus equinus, Geoff.) 

 {Dr. A. Yale Massey). 



In the marking and coloration of the legs, as also in 

 having a spotted abdomen, Hiematopota sanyuinaria agrees 

 with H. brannescens, Ricardo, the type of which is from 

 Uganda; H. sanyuinaria, however, apart from its usually 

 sujaller size, may be distinguished from the species in ques- 

 tion by the shape of its antennae "^ (especially by the terminal 

 annuli of the third joint not being sharply marked off from 

 each other), by the much narrower front and the absence of 

 a dark brown band between each antenna and the eye, by 

 the grey stripes on the thorax being broader and not so 

 sharply defined, l)y the ochraceous buff tip to the scutellum, 

 and by the wing-markings being broken up into spots. The 

 conspicuous ochraceous butt' colour of the greater part of tlie 

 scutellum in H. sanyuiauria will serve to distinguish the 

 species from any other described African Haemutupola at 

 present knowu to me. 



Hcematopota fusca, sp. n. 



?. — Length (6 specimens) S'-f to 9 mm.; width of 

 head 2*6 to 2*8 mm.; width of front at vertex just under 1 mm. 

 to 1 mm. ; length of wing 825 to 875 nmi. 



Body and ainys dark bruwn ; stripes on thorax incon- 

 spicuous; dorsum of second, third, Jourtli, and fifth ul'do- 

 iuinal seyments sometimes witli a pair of not very conspicuous 

 mouse-yrey spots ; liyht markinys in wiuys clearly defined, 

 usual three rosettes jn'esent and each composed of a sinyle 

 sei'ies of markinys, apical sinuous morkiny especially con- 

 spicuous, broad above immediately below end of second lonyitu- 

 dinal vein, interrvpled in second submaryinal cell ; front tibioe 

 with one broad pale bund, middle and hind tibia each wiih tn-o 

 'narrower pale bands. 



Head: front dark brown, grey only on extreme lateral 

 margins and immediately below lateral frontal sputs, face and 



* From tho ahnpo of its autoniue JTcprnxitopota brtinm'scens, Ricardo, 

 ■would appear to belong to tho gtMUis Fdilueitiatojiofa, Ciriiuborf*' (' Zonlo- 

 gischer Anzeiger,' xxx. Ikl. ur. Il/t2, July 3, lUOG, p. iitiO), foiuulod for 

 F. coyniUa, Oriinb. (ibid.), from Uermau Eoat Africa aud Zanzibar. 



