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middle and hind pairs clothed with yellowish-white, whitish, or pale yellowish 

 hair, posterior extremity of outer surface of hind pair in <$ usually clothed with 

 dark brown hair ; femora black, clothed partly with black partly with yellowish 

 or whitish hair, posterior surface of front pair in Q clothed with whitish hair ; 

 front tibiae in $ clove-brown (somewhat paler for a short distance just beyond 

 extreme base), clothed with minute, appressed, black hairs, with which on 

 proximal third minute, glistening, yellowish hairs are sparsely intermingled, 

 outer surface of proximal two-thirds with an irregular fringe of longer and finer 

 blackish hairs ; middle and hind tibiae in c? clove-brown at distal extremities, 

 more or less raw-umber-coloured or even paler at and towards their bases, 

 clothed with black hair intermixed proximally with glistening whitish or 

 yellowish hair, inner and outer surfaces of hind tibiae fringed with longer, blackish 

 hair ; front and middle tibiae of Q (except tips of both pairs and extreme base 

 of front pair) cream-coloured and clothed with glistening, silvery-white hair, 

 rather less than distal fourth of front tibiae in Q , a streak extending therefrom 

 towards base on under side, and distal fourth or rather less than distal third of 

 middle tibiae clove-brown and clothed with black hair ; hind tibiae in Q cream- 

 coloured at base, then darker, the distal third being clove-brown ; on anterior 

 surface of hind tibiae of Q cream-coloured area extends further than on upper 

 surface, occupying about proximal two-thirds, while on upper surface paler area 

 scarcely reaches middle ; pale portion of hind tibiae of Q clothed with silvery- 

 white hair, remainder clothed with black hair ; tarsi in both sexes clove-brown, 

 last joint of front pair deeply notched at tip, second and two following joints of 

 front pair conspicuously expanded. 



Uganda and East Afeica Protectorates : type of $ and twelve S 

 para-types from Bugoma Forest, Unyoro, Uganda Protectorate, 3,700 feet, 

 l-5.xii.1911 (S. A. Neave) ; two other $ c? from Entebbe, Uganda, — "in 

 forest," 5.vii.l911, and between 12 and 20.U912 (S. A. Neave); type of Q 

 and seven Q para-types from Uganda, 1910 (Captain A. D. Eraser, R.A.M.C.) ; 

 six Q Q from Bugoma Forest, Uganda Protectorate, as above (S. A. Neave) ; 

 three Q Q from Mabira Forest, Chagwe^ Uganda Protectorate, 3-500-3,800 feet, 

 16-25.vii.1911 (S. A. Neave) ; one Q from the Botanical Gardens, Entebbe, 

 Uganda, 5.ix.l904 (Captain, now Major, E. D. W. Greig, l.M.S.) ; one Q from 

 Uganda, 1909 (Colonel, now Surgeon- General, Sir David Bruce, C.B., F.R.S.) ; 

 one Q from Mpumu, Chagwe, Uganda Protectorate, March, 1910 (Captain, now 

 Major, A. E. Hamerton, D.S.O., R.A.M.C); one Q from the Luimi River, 

 Toro, Uganda Protectorate, 22.i.l911, "in forest country ; a common and very 

 pretty Tabanus " (Dr. R. Van Somei*en) ; one Q from the Yala River (southern 

 edge of Kakumega Forest), East Africa Protectorate, 4,800-5,300 feet, between 

 21 and 28.V.1911 (S. A. Neave). The rf type, eight other tf <$ , and 

 six Q Q taken by Mr. Neave (in whose honour this handsome species has been 

 named) have been presented to the British Museum (Natural History) by the 

 Entomological Research Committee, in whose possession are the remaining 

 specimens collected by Mr. Neave ; the specimens enumerated above other than 

 those obtained by Mr. Neave have been presented to the National Collection by 

 their captors. 



