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a faint vinous tinge, most pronounced on the second and third 
segments; second segment with a large bilateral infuscated blotch, 
often enclosing a small but distinct sub-central blackish spot, but 
occasionally also the spots are separated, and in some examples the 
small dark one only remains; the third to the sixth segment, inclusive, 
with sharply defined and conspicuous blackish bands, narrowly 
interrupted in the median line. Legs with the tips of the last two 
segments of the front and middle tarsi black; the last two segments 
of the hind tarsi uniformly black. 
Length. — 7 to 8 mm.; length of wing, 7 to 8 mm. 
Type , male and female (Coll. British Museum), Katangura 
River, between Katangum and Geidam, Northern Nigeria. Dr. 
F. W. McKay. 
PALE Form. — Thoracic markings similar to those in the dark 
form; but the pleurae are generally paler. Abdomen greyish buff, 
with a pale vinous tinge; bilateral blackish bands, very sharply and 
clearly defined and narrowly interrupted in the median line; those 
on the third, fourth, and fifth segments being almost equally 
separated by the pale median stripe; the bands are also only very 
slightly rounded medially, and rather suddenly so towards the 
lateral margins. Legs as in the dark forms. 
Two co-type males and a female (Coll. Brit. Museum) were 
captured by Dr. A. Kinghorn at Sabiya-Boge, Northern Ashanti, 
24th April, 1910. Eight additional specimens were also captured by 
Dr. Kinghorn in various localities in Ashanti, all of which have 
pale abdomens as in the types. 
Glossina brevipalpis , n. sp. 
This tsetse fly may be easily recognised from the two western 
representatives of the fusca group ( G. fusca and G. grossa ) by its 
shorter and stouter palpi, its generally paler colour, and somewhat 
indefinite thoracic markings; in the morphological characters of 
the male armature; also by the great length of the median process; 
the presence of a long bilateral row or band, of squamose spines; 
and in the form of the harpes. 
Length. —>10-12 mm.; length of wing, 11-1150 mm. 
Male. Head with the front uniformly pale ochreous brown, 
frontal margins brighter. Antennae pale ochreous, with the anterior 
