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NEW AFRICAN HIPPOBOSCID 2. 
By Ernest E. AUSTEN. 
(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 
The types of the two species and of the variety described below are in the 
British Museum (Natural History). 
Genus Hirrpoposca, Linn. 
Hippobosca hirsuta, sp. n. (fig. 1, a and 0). 
3 O.—Length, ¢ (3 specimens) 7 mm., © (2 specimens, both gravid) 
8 to 8°6 mm.; width of head (both sexes) 2°2 to 2°25 mm. ; approximate greatest 
width of front in both sexes 1 mm.; length of wing, ¢ 7°5 to 7°8 mm., 
Q 8:2 mm. 
Thorax chestnut, with, on dorsum, faint and somewhat reduced Naples-yellow 
markings of usual Hippobosea-type (see fig. 1, a), scutellum however dark 
brown, with a large and very conspicuous, straw-yellow, median spot, shaped 
as shown in fig. 1 a; abdomen in dried specimens clove-brown, with the usual 
shining black callosities at posterior extremity ; head, body and legs clothed with 
relatively long, pale, glistening, straw-yellow or yellowish-white hair, which on 
dorsum of thorax and on legs is rough, coarse, and almost erect ; front legs 
ochraceous-rufous, middle and hind legs orange-rufous, extreme tips of middle and 
hind femora dark brown above. : 
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Fig. 1.—a, Hippobosca hirsuta, Austen. 9. x 6. b,Scutellum of Hippobosca hirsuta var. neavei, 
Austen. x 6. c, Head and thorax of Hippobosca maculata, Leach. x 6,—From a 
specimen from Lorenco Marquez: to show differences between thoracic markings in 
this species and in H. hirsuta, Austen. 
