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NEW AFRICAN TABANIDAE.— PART IV.* 



By Ernest E. Austen. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



The types of the seven new speeies described in the following pages are in the 

 British Museum (Natural History). The subjoined list shows the countries in 

 which the species have been obtained. 



PANGONIINAE. 



Genus Chrysops, Mg. 

 Chrysops pallidal a, sp. n. Angola. 



TABANINAE. 



Genus Haematopota, Mg. 



Haematopota hastata, sp. n Sierra Leone Protectorate; 



Gold Coast (Northern Terri- 

 tories) ; Northern Nigeria. 



harpax, sp. n Belgian Congo. 



maculosifacies, sp. n. ... German East Africa. 



ingluviosa, sp. n Southern Rhodesia; Northern 



Rhodesia. 



edax, sp. n. ... ... Uganda Protectorate. 



nigripennis, sp. n. ... Uganda Protectorate. 



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PANGONIINAE. 

 Genus Chrysops, Meigen. 



Chrysops pallidula, sp. n. (fig. 1). 



O. — Length (5 specimens) 8 to 9*5 mm. ; width of head just under 3 to 3*2 

 mm. ; width of front at vertex 1*2 to l"25 mm. ; length of wing 8*2 to 9 mm. 



Medium-sized, hroadish species, with very distinctive coloration ; dorsum of thorax 

 light isabella-coloured, dorsum of abdomen cinnamon-coloured, with a whitish-grey 



transverse band at base of second segment, as shown in fig. 1. Face entirely 



whitish- or yellowish-grey pollinose, devoid of a shining tubercle or tubercles ; dark 

 wing-markings as shown in fig. 1, dark brown or clove-brown," stigma elongate and 

 paler, raw-umber-coloured ; legs ochraceous or tawny-ochraceons, trochanters, front 

 tarsi, last two joints of middle and hind tarsi, and tips of front and middle coxae, 

 of all femora and tibiae (narrowly), as well as extreme bases of all tibiae and tips of 

 first three joints of middle and hind tarsi clove-brown. 



* For Part III, see Bull. Ent. Res., Vol. iii, p. 399 (December, 1912). 



f For names and illustrations of colours, see Ridgway, " A Nomenclature of Colors for 

 Naturalists." (Boston ; Little, Brown & Company, 1880,) 



