﻿ERNEST E. AUSTEN — NEW AFRICAN TABANIDAE — PAKT III. 



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longitudinal vein , having a faint isabcllinc tint, Out being without conspicuous mark- 

 ings (basal and anal cells totally devoid of markings) ; legs cinnamon-coloured, 

 tibiae slender, without bands. 



Head yellowish-grey pollinose, jowls and basi-occipital region sparsely clothed 

 with yellowish hair ; vertex with usual pair of admedian, mummy-brown spots, 

 in front of and in contact with which is a (frequently less distinct) mummy- 

 brown or brownish, Y-shaped mark, the stem of which lies between the lateral 

 frontal spots ; median frontal spot usually wanting, but if present exceedingly 

 small and inconspicuous, lateral frontal spots not in contact with eyes ; frontal 

 callus raw-umber- or yellowish-horn-coloured, of medium depth, extending from 

 eye to eye, usually somewhat deeper at each lateral extremity than in middle, 

 central portion of lower margin being somewhat excavated, upper margin straight 

 or nearly so ; in middle line immediately below and in contact with callus is a 

 short, vertical, mummy-brown, streak, while immediately below antennae is a 

 narrow, transverse, mummy-brown band, extending from eye to eye, but inter- 

 rupted on each side of central portion of face ; palpi ochraceous-buff, clothed on 



Fig. 3. — Haematopota beringeri, Austen, 9 • X 4. 



outer side with blackish hair above, and below with ochraceous hair ; first and 

 second joints of antennae orange-buff, first joint not elongate but somewhat 

 swollen on inner side, angles of second joint not produced, third joint as viewed 

 from side narrow and elongate, expanded portion ochraceous-rufous, without 

 prominent angle on upper margin, annulate portion clove -brown. Thorax : 

 dorsum marked, as shown in fig. 3, with complete longitudinal stripes, alternately 

 cream-buff and mummy-brown, sides of dorsum edged with mummy-brown from 

 humeral callus to posterior branch of transverse suture, a short mummy-brown 

 streak also present above base of each wing, between postalar callus and posterior 

 branch of transverse suture ; pleurae and pectus cream-buff, thinly clothed with 

 yellowish hair, dorsum clothed with minute, appressed, ochreous hairs ; scutellum, 

 except two elongate, mummy-brown spots on dorsum, cream-buff. Abdomen : 

 tergites of last three segments more or less brownish-olive, those of second and 

 following segments sometimes each with a pair of longitudinally elongate, 

 yellowish-grey spots (scarcely noticeable except when abdomen is viewed at a 

 low angle from behind), one of which is situate on each side of middle line, 



