﻿410 ERNEST E. AUSTEN — NEW AFRICAN TABANIDAE — PART III. 



The author has much pleasure in associating with this species the name of 

 Dr. J. B. Davey, an energetic and careful collector, who has done much to 

 extend our knowledge of the blood-sucking flies of Nyasaland. 



Haematopota rubens, sp. n. (fig. 2). 



Q. — Length (28 specimens) 8*5 to 10*6 mm. ; width of head 3 to 3*75 mm. ; 

 width of front at vertex 1 to just over 1 mm. ; length of wing 7*4 to 9*5 mm. 



Prettily-coloured species, with dark brown, grey-striped thorax, uniformly light 

 grey scutellum, and abdomen cinnamon-rufous or brownish cinnamon-rufous above, 

 with last three segments dark brown, paler (orange-ochraceous, orange-buff, or 

 yellowish-grey) hind borders to all segments, and paired pale {orange-buff or grey) 

 spots as shown in fig. 2, those on last tergite being often fused together ; wings drab 

 or drab-grey, with conspicuous dark brown stigma, and comparatively coarse whitish 

 markings, as shown in fig. 2. 



Fig. 2. — Haematopota rubens, Austen, 9 • X 4. 



Head : front of moderate width, yellowish-grey, with a pair of dark sepia- 

 coloured admedian spots on vertex, more or less triangular in outline, and either 

 narrowly separate or to a greater or less extent fused together ; median frontal 

 spot small and inconspicuous, lateral frontal spots likewise not very large, 

 narrowly separate from eyes ; between dark spots on vertex and upper margin of 

 frontal callus the front, except a narrow border along inner edge of each eye and 

 the area immediately surrounding the median and each lateral frontal spot, is 

 dusky (mouse-grey) ; frontal callus dull yellowish horn-coloured, of moderate 

 depth, transversely oblong, extending from eye to eye, with its upper angles 

 rounded off, and its upper margin either more or less uniformly curved or some- 

 what angulate in middle line ; below and in contact with lower edge of frontal 

 callus is a small dark brown median spot ; face, jowls, and basi-occipital region 

 light grey, occiput smoke-grey, a small dark brown spot usually visible below 

 each antenna and on same level a similarly coloured, transversely elongate fleck 

 adjacent to lower inner margin of each eye ; jowls and basi-occipital region 

 sparsely clothed with short, whitish hair ; palpi isabella-coloured, proximal joint 

 clothed with whitish hair, terminal joint clothed on outer side with minute, 

 appressed, black hairs, and with some longer, pale yellowish hairs on under 



