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NEW AFRICAN HIPPOBOSCID^. 



By Ernest E. Austen. 

 (^Published hy permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



The types of the two species and of the variety described below are in the 

 British Museum (Natural History). 



Genus Hippobosca, Linn. 



Hippobosca hirsuta, sp. n. (fig. I, a and b). 



(^ Q . — Length, cJ (3 specimens) 7 mm., Q (2 specimens, both gravid) 

 8 to 8"6 mm. ; width of head (both sexes) 2"2 to 2'25 mm. ; approximate greatest 

 width of front in both sexes 1 mm. ; length of wing, (^ 7'5 to 7*8 mm., 

 Q 8-2 mm. 



Thorax chestind, ivith, on dorsum, faint and someiuhat reduced Naples-yellow 

 markinys of usual Hippobosca-^y^K (see fig. 1, a), scatellum however dark 

 brown, with a large and very conspicuous, straw-yelloio, median spot, shaped 

 as shown in fig. la; abdovien in dried specimens clove-brown, with the usual 

 shilling black callosities at posterior extremity ; head, body and leys clothed with 

 7-elatively lony, pale, glistening, straw-yellow or yellowish-white hair, which on 

 dorsum of thorax and on legs is rough, coarse, and almost erect ; front legs 

 ochraceous-rufous, middle and hind legs orange-rufous, extreme tips of middle and 

 hind femora dark brown above. 



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Fig. 1. — a, Hippobosca hirsuta, Austen. $ . X 6. h, Scutellum of Hippobosca hirsuta var. neavei, 

 Austen, x 6. c, Head and thorax of Hippobosca maculata, Leach, x 6. — From a 

 specimen from Lorengo Marquez : to show differences between thoracic markings in 

 this species and in H. hirsuta, Austen. 



