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two-thirds or three- fourths of first joint of hind tarsi cream-buff, second, third, 

 and fourth joints of hind tarsi also cream-buff at base. 



Nyasaland Protectorate ; Northern Rhodesia ; Southern Rho- 

 desia. Type and one other specimen (para-type) from Makande, R. Lilongwe, 

 Nyasaland Protectorate, 1,800 ft., 26, 28. i. 1911 {Dr. Meredith Sanderson: 

 presented by the Entomological Research Committee). Additional material 

 as follows. — Nyasaland Protectorate: three specimens from Mpenya, 

 Central Angoniland, 1. ii. 1910 {Dr. J. B. Davey) ; two specimens from Fort 

 Johnston, South Nyasa, 26, 28. ii. 1910, in "goat kraal" and "sheep kraal" 

 respectively {Dr. A. H. H. Barclay); two specimens from Ncheu, 18. i. 1911 

 {Dr. J. E. S. Old : presented, like all the foregoing, by the Entomological 

 Research Committee); one specimen from Nkudzi, February, 1910 {H.N. Tale). 

 Northern Rhodesia : one specimen from Petauke, Luangwa Valley, 2,400 

 ft., 1. i. 1908, and one from the Upper Luangwa Valley, between 1,800 and 

 2,000 ft., 24. iii. 1908 {S. A. Ncave) ; one specimen from Mangandwe Stream 

 and another from Jani, 9 and 11. ii. 1911 (the late O. C. Silverlock : presented 

 by the British South Africa Company and Mr. Silverlock's relatives) ; two 

 specimens from Feira District, 1911 {E. A. Cope ma n) ; three specimens from 

 Nawalia (two of them taken "on kudu"), January, 1912 {LI. Lloyd: presented 

 by the Entomological Research Committee). Southern Rhodesia : one 

 specimen from Lomagundi, February, 1912 (received from R. W. Jack). The 

 following material in possession of the Entomological Research Committee has 

 also been examined. — From the Nyasaland Protectorate : — three specimens 

 collected by Dr. J. B. Davey, one specimen obtained by Dr. A. H. H. Barclay, 

 and one collected by Dr. J. E. S Old (details in each case as already given) : 

 also one specimen from Fort Johnston, South Nyasa, February, 1910 {S. A. 

 Neave). From Northern Rhodesia : — two specimens from Nawalia, January, 

 1912 {LI. Lloyd). 



The ruddy coloration of the proximal two-thirds of the dorsal surface of the 

 abdomen in this species is very noticeable — at least in dried specimens of the 

 female sex, and the combination of characters included in the diagnosis at the 

 commencement of the above description renders females of Haematopota rubens 

 readily distinguishable from those of any other Ethiopian Haematopota at present 

 described. 



Haematopota beringeri, sp. n. (fig. 3). 



Q. — Length (21 specimens) 8 to 10'2 mm., width of head 2 to 2*8 mm. ; width 

 of front at vertex 0'7o to 1*2 mm. ; length of wing 7*2 to 9*4 mm. 



Narrow-bodied, elongate species, with dorsum of thorax mammy-brown, conspic- 

 uously striped with cream-buff, and that of abdomen cinnamon-coloured, darker at 

 distal extremity, and with a more or less distinct, pale {yellowish-grey), median, 

 longitudinal stripe, commencing on second segment and defined by a narrow, dark 

 brown or brownish area on each side of and immediately adjacent to it : wings 

 marked as shown in fig. 3, the border being sepia-coloured {^narrower and deeper in 

 tint between first and second longitudinal veins and costa than at apex or in its 

 distal posterior portion), and the intervening area, from base of wing to fork of third 



