﻿TABANIDAE. — PART II. 335 



cell, and base of anterior branch of third longitudinal vein as also its appendix 

 conspicuously though narrowly infuscated ; legs clove-brown or black, anterior 

 tibiae with a single pale band near base (in c? often scarcely distinguishable, 

 darker than in Q, and incomplete above), middle and hind tibiae each with two 

 pale bands (ochraceous-buff in S -> huff or cream-buff in Q ) ; anterior tibiae of Q 

 slightly but distinctly swollen, hind tibiae not swollen ; proximal two-thirds of 

 first joint of middle and hind tarsi cream-buff. 



Uganda and East Africa Protectorates : type of $ and two $ para- 

 types from Daro or Durro Forest, Toro, Uganda Protectorate, 4,000-4,500 feet, 

 25-29. x. 1911 ; one c? from the Yala River (southern edge of Kakumega 

 Forest), East Africa Protectorate, 4,800-5,300 feet, 21-28. v. 1911 ; two $ S 

 from Tiriki, North Kavirondo, East Africa Protectorate, 5,200 feet, 20. v. 1911 ; 

 type of Q from Ilala (14 miles east of Mumia's), Maramas District, East Africa 

 Protectorate, 4,500 feet, between 18 and 21. vi. 1911 ; additional Q Q from the 

 East Africa Protectorate as follows : — four from the south-eastern slopes of 

 Mt. Kenya, 6,000-7,000 feet, 3-12. ii. 1911 ; two from Tiriki (other details as 

 above) ; two from the Yala River (other details as above) ; two from the Nandi 

 Escarpment, 5,800 feet. 29. v. 1911 ; and one from the southern foot and slopes 

 of Mt. Elgon, 5,100-5,800 feet, between 8 and 13. vi. 1911. From the Uganda 

 Protectorate Q Q as follows : — three from Mabira Forest, Chagwe, 3,500-3,800 

 feet, 16-25. vii. 1911 ; one from Western Aukole, 4,500-5,000 feet, between 

 10 and 14. x. 1911 ; one from south of Lake George, 3,200-3,400 feet, between 

 17 and 19. x. 1911; one from the Ankole-Toro border, east of Lake George, 

 4,500 feet, 20-21. x. 1911 ; five from Daro or Durro Forest (other details as 

 above) ; one, locality and date of capture unknown (Dr. C. A. Wiggins). Of the 

 foregoing examples, all of which except the last were collected by Mr. S. A. 

 Neave, the c? and 1 Q types, three other <5 c? an d fifteen Q Q have been presented 

 to the British Museum (Natural History) by the Entomological Research Com- 

 mittee, by whom the remainder are for the present retained. In addition to those 

 already mentioned, the National Collection also includes the following Q speci- 

 mens of this species from the Uganda Protectorate : — one from Mabira Forest, 

 Chagwe, 12. iv. 1905 (Dr. C. Christy: presented by the Liverpool School of 

 Tropical Medicine) ; one from the vicinity of (15 miles from) the Missisi River, 

 1909 (received from Colonel, now Major-General, Sir David Bruce, C.B., F.R.S.) ; 

 two (precise locality and date of capture unknown), 1910 (Captain A. D. Fraser, 

 R.A.M.C). 



In the female sex, at any rate, Haematopota fuvva may be distinguished from 

 H. fusca, Austen, — another dark and dark-winged species with apparently much 

 the same distribution in the Uganda and East Africa Protectorates — by its 

 broader and bulkier body, more conspicuously spotted abdomen, much darker 

 (black or blackish) antennae and frontal callus, and by the infuscation of certain 

 of the wing-veins or portions of veins, as described above. From Haematopota 

 hirta, Ric. (syn. H. nigrescens, Ric), which also occurs in the Uganda and East 

 Africa Protectorates and resembles //. farva in size and in the shape of its 

 thorax and abdomen, the species just described is in the female sex readily 

 distinguishable inter alia by its much narrower front, much larger and darker 

 antennae, which in H. hirta are small and cinnamon-coloured, and by its darker 

 body and wings. 



