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between admedian dark brown or brownish area and lateral margin ; lateral 

 extremities of first (visible) tergite light grey, those of three following tergites 

 also somewhat greyish ; dorsum and venter clothed with minute, appressed, 

 ochraceous or ochreous hairs ; venter agreeing with dorsum in coloration, but 

 without median stripe or paired spots. Wings : stigma dark brown, elongate 

 and well-defined. Squamae isabella-coloured, borders cream-buff. Halteres : 

 knobs seal-brown (distal border sometimes buff), stalks cream-buff. 



Gold Coast (Northern Territories) and Northern Nigeria : type 

 and 16 para-types from Kalande, Northern Territories, Gold Coast, 22. vii. 1910, 

 " at water-hole " (Dr. F. J. A. Beringer, W.A.M.S.). The following are the 

 localities and dates of capture of 68 additional examples of this species, which, 

 like the typical series of specimens, were taken in the Northern Territories, Gold 

 Coast, and presented to the National Collection by Dr. Beringer, whose name the 

 author is glad to be able to associate with this unusually distinct-looking 

 Haematopota (the figures in parentheses indicate the number of specimens) : — 

 (4) Dimbipe, (5) Bongwiripe, 19. vii. ; (1) Bongwiri, 20.vii., "in bush"; (1) 

 Girammahama, (1) Girambabina, 20.vii. ; (15) Fadama, 20, 21. vii. ; (1) Giram- 

 bongwira, 21. vii. ; (5) Serpriso, 23.vii. ; (4) Kukulu Eoad, 24.vii. ; (11) Kombi, 

 24. vii., 8.viii., "water side"; (2) Kalande, 25.vii., "water side"; (1) between 

 Sissipi and Butuku, "in bush near stream," and (1) Butuku Village, 26.vii. ; (2) 

 near Jampari, 28.vii., " flowing water " ; (2) Girambasana, 8.viii. ; (7) swamp near 

 Salaga, Tamale Road, 16.viii. ; (6) swamp near Salaga, Tandy Road, 17.viii.1910. 

 From Northern Nigeria the British Museum (Natural History) at present 

 possesses but a single Q of H. beringer i, — taken two miles out of Lokoja, 

 16.vii.1911 (Br. E. A. Chartres, W.A.M.S. : presented by the Entomological 

 Research Committee).* 



Haematopota beringeri, which belongs to the well-marked group of species 

 including H. denshamii, Austen, H. copemanii, Austen, and others,! resembles in 

 its very unusual coloration H. fulva, Austen, J a species met with as yet only in 

 Benguella, Angola. From Haematopota fulva, however, H. beringeri is dis- 

 tinguishable without difficulty owing to its much more distinctly striped thorax, 

 darker wing-stigma, and more slender front tibiae. 



Haematopota crudelis, sp. n. (fig. 4). 



Q. — Length (10 specimens) 8*4 to 9*6 mm.; width of head 3*2 to 3*5 mm. ; 

 width of front at vertex 0*8 to 1 mm ; length of Aving 7*75 to 8*8 mm. 



Medium-sized or rather small, blackish, pale-winged species, with body, wings, and 

 legs marked as shown in fig. 4. — Dorsum of thorax clove-brown with light grey 

 markings, that of abdomen blackish clove-brown or black with markings of somewhat 

 darker grey ; scutellum smoke-grey, with a brown or brownish blotch (sometimes so 

 faint as to be scarcely distinguishable) on each lateral border near base. 



Head : front, except frontal spots and usual bifid, median, dark brown, deltoid 

 blotch on vertex sometimes light grey, in other cases light grey area is confined 



* [The Committee has also received two females taken between Daboya and Busunu, 

 Northern Territories, Gold Coast, vii. 1912 (C. Saunders).— Ed.] 



f Cf. Austen, Illustrations of African Blood-Sucking Flies, p. 126 (1909). 

 X Cf. Austen, op. tit., p. 125, and Plate xi., fig. 84. 



