94 Mr. E, E. Austen on new 



Total len,2:tli 560 mm. ; tail 100. 



A single female specimen from Inkongo, on the Sankuru 

 River, in the Kassai Province of the Congo, presented by- 

 Mr. H. Wilson. 



Atractaspis watsonii. 



Snout very short, feebly prominent. Portion of rostral 

 visible from above half as long as its distance from the 

 frontal; suture between the internasals shorter than that 

 between the prefrontals ; frontal as long as broad, longer 

 than its distance from the end of the snout, as long as the 

 parietals ; one pr«- and one postocular ; temporals small, 

 2 + 3; six upper labials, third and fourth largest, fourth 

 bordering the eye ; first lower labial in contact with its 

 follow behind the symphysial ; three lower labials in contact 

 with the chin-shields. Scales in 29 rows. Ventrals 222 ; 

 anal entire ; subcaudals 29, mostly single (last 8 paired). 

 Uniform black. 



Total length 570 mm. ; tail 45. 



A single female specimen from Sokoto, Upper Niger, 

 presented by Mr. C. F. Watson. 



XII I. — New African Phlebotomic Dipteru in the British Museum 

 {Natural Histonj). — Part III. Tabanida (continued). 

 By Ernest E. Austen *. 



Genus H^MAToroTA, Mg. (continued). 

 Hcemaiopota copemanii, sp. n. 



5 . — Length (15 specimens) 9*5 to 11 mm. ; width of head 

 2'6 to 2"8 mm. ; width of front at vertex 1 to 1*2 mm. ; length 

 of wing 8-4. to 9"6 mm. 



Yellowish grey ; dorsum of thorax with four dark brown 

 lonyitudinal stripes, dorsum of abdomen ivith a broad longitu- 

 dinal dark broivn stripe on each side of middle line, starting 

 from base and usually becoming attenuated or dying away 

 toivards distal extremity, narrowly interrupted on hind margins 

 of segments ; frontal callus clove-brown f, sometimes lighter in 



* For Parts I. and II. see Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ,ser. 8, vol. i. 

 pp. 209-228 and 401-428. 



f For names and illustrations of colours, see Eidgwav, ' A Nomen- 

 clature of Colors for Naturalists' (Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 

 1886). 



