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jowls, and basioccipital region light grey pollinose, clothed with whitish hair, upper 

 part of face on each side usually with an ill-defined mummy-brown area between 

 antenna and eye, and lower down with a short, transversely elongate, similarly 

 coloured spot resting on eye ; palpi light isabella-coloured, proximal joint and 

 base of distal joint above and below clothed with whitish hair, remainder of outer 

 surface of distal joint clothed with minute black hairs ; antennae shaped in profile 

 as shown in fig. 4a, first two joints raw-umber-coloured, clothed with minute black 

 hairs, third joint mummy-brown, expanded portion occasionally paler (raw-umber- 

 coloured), first joint somewhat swollen. Thorax : dorsum with grey markings as 

 shown in fig. 4, and sparsely clothed with minute, appressed, yellowish hairs ; 

 pleurae and pectus smoke-grey, clothed with whitish hair. Abdomen : dorsum 

 sometimes with a cinnamon-rufous tinge, sometimes of same colour as or darker 

 than dorsum of thorax ; grey dorsal markings as shown in fig. 4, spots on first 

 four segments rounded, those on remainder or at least on last two segments 

 elongate ; dorsum clothed on sides with whitish hair, and on dark portion of 

 surface with minute, appressed, dark brown hairs ; venter greyish pollinose (central 

 portion of last two segments darker), clothed for most part with minute, appressed, 

 yellowish hairs, hind margins of all ventral scutes except first and last more or less 

 cream-buff, hair on last segment and on dark area on penultimate segment dark 

 brown. Wings : drab-coloured, with light markings as shown in fig. 4 ; stigma 

 dark mummy-brown (occasionally lighter brown), with no quadrate dark blotch 

 below it, proximal extremity of stigma pale ; veins for most part dark mummy- 

 brown, local infuscations inconspicuous. Squamae waxen-greyish, their borders 

 cream-coloured. Halteres : stalks cream-coloured, seal-brownish at base, knobs 

 seal-brown, outer margins cream-buff or cream-coloured. Legs : coxae clothed 

 with whitish hair, front pair, drab-grey, middle and hind pairs grey ; femora 

 greyish-cinnamon or greyish fawn-coloured, pollinose, clothed for most part with 

 yellowish or whitish hair, but with black hairs at distal extremities at least on inner 

 side, front femora often largely dark brown on anterior surface ; tibiae marked as 

 shown in fig. 4, front tibiae clove-brown, somewhat incrassate beyond proximal 

 third, seal-brown at extreme base, beyond which is a fairly broad cream-buff band 

 clothed with minute, appressed, glistening cream-coloured hairs ; middle and hind 

 tibiae dark brown, each bearing two narrower cream-buff bands and with their 

 extreme bases also pale ; front tarsi clove-brown ; middle and hind tarsi dark 

 brown, first joint of each, except distal extremity, and three following joints of 

 hind tarsi at extreme base cream-buff. 



Southern Rhodesia; Northern (North - Western) Rhodesia. 

 Type and nine para-types from Mt. Chirinda, Melsetter District, Southern 

 Rhodesia, alt. 3,800 ft., 11-15. x. 1911, and to additional specimens from 

 Chirinda Forest, 60 miles south of Melsetter, alt, 3,800 ft., 1. x. 1909 (C. F. M. 

 Swynnerton : — presented to the British Museum (Natural History) by the 

 Imperial Bureau of Entomology). Northern Rhodesia : one specimen from 

 Chilanga, North-Western Rhodesia, alt. 4,030 ft,, 3. x. 1913 (JR. C. Wood: 

 presented to the British Museum (Natural History) by the Imperial Bureau of 

 Entomology). 



Haematopota ingluviosa belongs to a group of species which includes among 

 others, H. sanguinaria, Austen (Northern Rhodesia), H. edax^ sp. n. (Uganda, — 



