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TWO NEW SPECIES OF HAEMATOPOTA FEOM THE FEDERATED 



MALAY STATES. 



Bv Gertrude Ricardo. 



Haematopota stantoni, sp. nov. 



Type (female) and two other females from Kuala Lumpur (Dr. A. T. Stanton) and 

 one female from Selangor, Malacca {H. N. Ridley, 1896), this last being in the British 

 Museum collection. 



A species belonging to Group II, the legs having no typical rings on the tibiae, but 

 the base of the tibiae is white (see Ricardo, Records Indian Museum, iv, p. 322, 

 1911). Wing with the apical band single, extending across the apex. Antennae 

 with the first joint nearly as long as the third. Face with a black band under the 

 antennae. A dark brown species. 



Length, 8 mm. 



Face pale ashy grey, with some silvery white hairs ; the black band extends across 

 from a point touching the eyes, more than half way down the face, below the base 

 of the antennae. Palpi reddish yellow on the inside, outside obscured by grey 

 tomentum and with black pubescence, rather stout, ending in a short point. Antennae : 

 the first joint dull reddish, stout, as long as the first division of the third joint, with 

 black pubescence ; the second very small indeed, cup-shaped, of the same colour 

 as the first joint, with black hairs ; the third joint long, blackish, the first division 

 covered with dull grey tomentum, the last four divisions dull black. Forehead quite a 

 third the width of the head, covered with dull grey tomentum ; the frontal callus 

 shining blackish brown, reaching the eyes, of moderate depth ; the paired spots 

 large, black, touching the eyes and the frontal callus ; unpaired spot small, triangular. 

 Thorax olive-brown, covered with appressed yellow pubescence, scutellum identical, 

 shoulders with black hairs, breast covered with grey tomentum and with white hairs. 

 Abdomen blackish brown, a distinct, large grey tomentose triangular spot is present 

 on the second segment, which has also a distinct grey tomentose band on its posterior 

 border ; pubescence very scanty, black, a few silvery white hairs on the last segment. 

 Legs blackish, the fore tibiae swollen, their basal third white ; all the femora rather 

 obscurely reddish yellow ; the middle tibiae white, black at the apex ; the posterior 

 tibiae white for two-thirds of their length, also a little swollen, the pubescence con- 

 sisting of long white hairs on the pale-coloured parts, and short black hairs elsewhere ; 

 the middle and posterior femora have a few white hairs below. Wings dark brown, 

 with the usual three rosettes and spots ; the apical band is rather concave, reaching 

 from border to border at the extreme apex of the wing ; the second, thi^^d and fiith 

 posterior cells with a white triangular spot. 



The species is named after Dr. A. T. Stanton to whom the British Museum is 

 indebted for many specimens of Tabanidae from the Malay States. 



