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more or less distinct patch of similar hairs in and on each side of middle line, 

 close to hind margin ; sixth segment except at base largely clothed with ap- 

 pressed, glistening, whitish hair ; seventh segment, base of sixth, and first five 

 segments except as already stated clothed with black hair ; ventral sm'face of 

 first three segments greyish rnsset or greyish cinnamon, clothed, like greater 

 part of ventral surface of following segment with minute, appressed, whitish hair ; 

 ventral scutes of second to fourth segments inclusive with a clove-brown blotch 

 in each basal angle ; ventral scute of fourth segment, except hind margin and as 

 already stated, greyish cinnamon-rufous or greyish brown ; ventral scutes of last 

 three (except hind margins of penultimate and antepenultimate) segments greyish 

 clove-brown, clothed with black hair ; hind margins of ventral scutes of second 

 to sixth segments inclusive cream-coloured, clothed with whitish hair. JVinr/s : 

 veins dark brown : anterior branch of third longitudinal vein sometimes provided 

 at base with a minute stump or backwardly directed appendix, which may vary 

 in size in the two wings of the same specimen, or even be present in one wing 

 and absent in the other. Squamae clove-brown or dark sepia-coloured, borders 

 darker than disc. Ilalteres sepia-coloured. Legs : coxae grey and clothed %vith 

 whitish hair, except distal extremities of front pair, which are blackish and 

 clothed with black hair (in some specimens front coxae are almost entirely 

 blackish and clothed with black hair) ; hind femora clothed below with whitish 

 hair, otherwise femora, tarsi, and distal extremities of front tibiae clothed with 

 black hair ; on middle and hind tibiae the glistening white hairs extend on to the 

 clove-brown tips ; front tarsi enlarged, and the three middle joints expanded. 



Northern Rhodesia and the Ntasaland Protectorate : type and 

 three other specimens from the Feira District, Northern Rhodesia, 1911 {E. A. 

 Cojjeinau) ; one spechnen from Liwonde, Nyasaland Protectorate, 19. I. 1911 

 (Jlr. J. E. S. Old: presented by the Entomological Research Committee). 



This species, with which the author has much pleasure in associating the name 

 of one of its discoverers, is allied to Tahanus clnritihialis, Ricardo, which hitherto 

 has been met with only in the Nyasaland Protectorate. Apart, however, from 

 the markings and very different coloration of the abdomen, which in T. claritihiulis 

 is unicolorous or nearly so, T. copemani is distinguished by differences in the 

 shape of the third joint of the antennae, as also by its thoracic stripes. In the 

 species described above the annulate portion of the third antennal joint is longer 

 and the expanded part is usually shorter and broader than in T. claritihialis, in 

 which the grey thoracic stripes, so conspicuous in T. copemani, are absent or 

 vestigial. 



Tabanus pullulus, sp. n. 



Q. — Length (13 specimens) 11 to 13-4 mm.: width of head 4 to 4*6 mm.; 

 width of front at vertex 0'6 to 0*8 mm.; length of wing 9'5 to 11 mm. 



Medium-nized or small, blackish, miicoloroiis species, closely allied to Tabanus 

 claritihialis, Ric— Dorsum of thorax and abdomen blackish slate-coloured, former, 

 at least near front margin, with faint indications of grey longitudinal stripes, but 

 otherwise thorax and abdomen entirely devoid of markings, except that hind margins 

 of nhdominal segments, excluding first seqincnt and ventral acute of last, are pale ; 



