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it from the former of these species, just as the shape of the 

 frontal callus will prevent it from being mistaken for the 

 latter. H. riificornis, Walk., from S. Africa, which also has 

 a bifurcate light mark at the tip of the wing, has much more 

 diffuse rosettes, the first and third antcnnal joints of a very 

 ditferent shape, and the pair of pale bands on the hind 

 tibia of equal width. To judge from Loew's figure of the 

 wing, H. duplicata, Lw. (Cape Colony), though resembling 

 H. coronata in the general appearance of the rosettes, is 

 distinguished by the outer branch of the apical cross-band or 

 sinuous mark being no wider than the inner, instead of 

 quite three times as broad. 



Hmnatopota inornata, sp. u. 



$ . — Length (3 specimens) 11'5 to 12"3 mm. ; width of 

 head 4< to 42 mm. ; width of front at vertex just over 

 1 mm.; length of wing 13 mm, 



Muinmy-broivn, loings sepia-coloured, light markings faint. 

 — Frontal callus mummy-brown, or dark sepia ; dorsum of 

 thorax with narrow yellowish grey stripes ; dorsum of abdomen 

 unicolorous , without spots, but with extreme hind margins of 

 segments chrome-yellow ; front and hind femora and middle 

 and hind tibice and tarsi dark seal-brotvn, middle femora 

 chocolate-brown or russet-brown, darker at tips, front tibics 

 and tarsi clove-brown, a single band on front tibice close to 

 base, two bands on middle and hind tibicp, first Joint of middle 

 tarsi except tip and basal half of first joint of hind tarsi buff 

 or cream-buf, lower band on hind tibice less distinct and 

 narrower than upper. 



Head: front, face, and jowls yellowish grey, face and 

 jowls clothed with pale yellowish hair, a large dark brown 

 roughly triangular median blotch on vertex, most distinct 

 when viewed from above or at a low angle from below; 

 frontal callus moderately deep, extending from eye to eye, 

 lower margin straight, upper margin convex or angulate ; 

 a conspicuous clove-brown median spot below callus; lateral 

 frontal spots dark seal-brown, conspicuous, in contact with 

 eyes, Avhen viewed from above each surrounded by a buff- 

 yellow ring, median frontal spot distinct, in contact with 

 apex of vertical blotch; palpi buff, terminal joint elongate, 

 blunt at tip, clothed on outer side with black and on under 

 side of base with yellowish hair, basal joint clothed with 

 yellowish hair; first and second joints ofantennce ochraceous- 

 buf£, clothed above and on outer side with short black hair, 

 first joint viewed from above expanding from base to middle. 



