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ERNEST E. AUSTEN — NEW AFRICAN 



anterior extremity of median stripe ; clove-brown lateral frontal spots in Q con- 

 spicuous, in contact with or narrowly separated from eyes ; jowls and basi- 

 occipital region in both sexes clothed with whitish hair ; clove-brown transverse 

 band on face extending from eye to eye, and in (J clothed with brownish hair ; 

 pair of small, clove-brown, admedian, elongate spots between and above bases of 

 antennae present in both sexes ; frontal callus wanting in cT, in Q dark brown or 

 mummy-brown, not very deep from above downwards but shaped like a transverse 

 band extending from eye to eye ; eyes* bare in both sexes, enlarged facets in cS 

 for most part very large and coarse ; proximal joint of palpi darkish grey, 

 mouse-grey, or isabella-coloured, clothed in both sexes with whitish hair, 

 terminal joint of palpi in c? elongate-ovate, isabella-coloured and clothed with 

 long brownish hair sometimes mixed with yellowish or whitish hair, terminal 

 joint of palpi in Q drab-grey, occasionally darker on outer side towards distal 

 extremity, moderately swollen towards base, and clothed on outer side witli 



Fig. 2. — Haematopota hastata, Austen, 9- X G. 



minute, appressed, black hairs, mixed with minute, glistening yellowish hairs ; 

 antennae in S agreeing in shape with those of Q (sec fig. 2a), but about one 

 half the size, first joint of antennae in rf mummy-brown or dark brown, greyish 

 pollinose above and on inside and shining on outer side, clothed above and below 

 with long dark brown hair, second joint of antennae in S mummy-brown or 

 cinnamon-coloured ; third joint of antennae in <$ mummy-brown (terminal 

 annuli clove-brown), upper and lower margins of proximal half of expanded 



:;Cs Coloured sketches of the eyes of this species in life, made at Ilorin, Northern Nigeria, by 

 Dr. J. W. Scott Macfie, W.A.M.S., show that in the $ the upper (large-facetted) portion is pale 

 fawn-coloured, speckled with a darker tint, while the lower border, which is composed of small 

 facets, is darkish purple with two horizontal, greenish metallic bands, the upper of which is 

 sinuous ; in the 9 the eye, which, as in other Tabanids, is of the same colour as the small-facetted 

 lower border in the $ , bears four horizontal, greenish metallic, sinuous bands. 



