274 Mr. E. E. Austen 07i new 



XXXIL — Netv African Phkbotomic Diptera in the British 

 Museum [Natural History). — Part IV. Tabanid<£ (con- 

 tinued). By Ernest E. Austen *. 



Genus HyEMATOPOxA; Mg. (continued). 



Hamatopota puniens, sp. n. 



$ . — Length (1 specimen) 9'6 mm. ; width of head just over 

 3 mm. ; width of front at vertex 1*2 mm. ; length of wing 

 8*4 ram. 



Sepia-coloured; dorsum of thorax 7vith narrorv light grey 

 stripes ; dorsum of abdomen ivith hind borders of all segments, 

 a narrow median stripe on each segment from second to sixth 

 inclusive, and two roivs of adniedian spots {conspicuouslg 

 elongate on segments 2 to 6 inclusive) smoke-grey ; wings mouse- 

 grey t or drab, light vnarkings well-defined when seen against a 

 dark background, usual three rosettes present, composed of 

 rather coarse markings, apical sinuous mark not bifurcate ; all 

 tibiae with two pale bands, and also pale at extreme base. 



Head smoke-grey, front mouse-grey except lateral margins 

 (which broaden out on vertex and also so as to include 

 lateral frontal spots) and a median pearl-grey stripe from 

 occipital margin to jii^^t beyond median frontal spot, around 

 which it expands in form of a spear-head; frontal callus 

 mummy-brown, of medium depth, extending from eye to 

 eye, its upper margin slightly concave on each side of 

 middle line, lower margin excavated above antennse ; a small 

 median seal-brown spot below callus, not descending to level 

 of base of antennae ; clove-brown lateral frontal spots 

 obliquely elongate, not in contact with eyes, median frontal 

 spot small but distinct ; palpi isabella-coloured, terminal 

 joint elongate but blunt at tip, clothed on outer side with 

 minute black hairs and below Avith short whitish hairs ; 

 antennce light mummy-brown, first joint somewhat darker, 

 cylindrical and scarcely incrassate, third joint elongate, 

 hardly expanded at base, last three annuli missing. Thorax : 



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

 pp. 209-228 aud 401-428, aud ser. 8, vol. ii. pp. 94-116. 



t For names and illustrations of colours, see Fiidgway, ' A Nomen- 

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



1880). 



