1939] 
Notes on Hippoboscidae 
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tip of the first longitudinal vein, so that the last section of 
the costa is about ,six times the length of the penultimate 
section. No median tergal plates are shown in the figure of 
the female. The coloration seems to fit some of my speci- 
mens of H. longipennis (capensis) , but the second longi- 
tudinal vein is much shorter than in that species. The 
venation also separates H. martinaglia from H. fulva, a fly 
of about the same size, likewise found on antelopes. 
The original description is reproduced, as it appeared in a 
periodical inaccessible to most entomologists : “A small 
species ; length of wing 4.5 mm. Head about as wide at the 
occiput as at the fronto-clypeus, reddish-brown, the frontal 
stripe slightly darker; posterior margin of head fringed 
with minute, thick-set setse, and a long seta at the base of 
each eye ; palpi dark brown, clothed with short setae of the 
same colour. Thorax reddish-brown, with a median dark 
band extending backwards almost to the transverse suture ; 
this band is forked posteriorly, usually more so than in the 
figure, and in one specimen is completely divided down the 
middle by a narrow line ; on each side of the posterior por- 
tion of the median band there is a dark transverse band. 
On each side beneath the transverse suture there is a nar- 
row transverse dark band, and beneath this a small tri- 
angular spot, which is usually indistinct and may be absent. 
At each latero-anterior angle there are two short setse, one 
on each side slightly distad and nearer the meson; on each 
side above the base of the wing there are three very short, 
thick-set black setse, two more similar setse slightly above 
them and near the meson, and two larger setse slightly above 
them and near the meson, and two larger setse below them ; 
on each side on the posterior margin there are five setse. 
Scutellum yellowish-white, fringed with short and a few 
long setse. On the venter there is a vertical dark band on 
each side between the fore and mid coxse. Legs pale red- 
dish-brown, sparsely clothed with setse; those on the tibise 
and tarsi darker. Ungues black. Abdomen reddish-brown 
with numerous pale setse. Wings hyaline with pale reddish- 
brown veins and short dark setse on the costa. Second longi- 
tudinal vein (R 2 + 3) long, reaching beyond the apex of the 
first longitudinal vein (Ri), but not extending to the ante- 
rior cross-vein. This new species can be easily recognised 
