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slightly fuscous brown at the sides. Venter of abdomen brown, fuscous brown apically, and thinly 
gray pollinose. Wing pale grayish brown, with numerous nearly white markings; stigma dark 
brown; apical fascia, starting just beyond the tip of the second vein, widest along the costa, in 
general narrow, curved slightly forward at first, then backward and finally nearly straight, reaching 
to near the middle of the first submarginal cell; pale markings toward apex and across the posterior 
cells narrow, many of them constricted in such a way as to form more or less hourglass-shaped 
spots in many of the cells; axillary cell and all the posterior cells with the posterior angles narrowly 
whitish hyaline. Legs in general pale, all the femora pale yellowish brown with some black hair; 
fore tibiae whitish basally, apical two-thirds or more pale brown; middle and hind tibiae each with 
two nearly white rings, one near base and the other on apical third; each tarsus, from the apex of 
the first segment on, dark fuscous brown, the middle and hind basitarsi mostly whitish. 
Male (undescribed). — Length, 12 mm.; width of head, 4.5 mm.; length of wing, 10 mm. 
Head more hairy than in the female; palpi shorter and more conical, directed forward; 
third segment of the antenna of the same general form as in the female, but much shorter, plainly 
shorter than the first segment which is as in the female. Eyes widely in contact at the middle, 
mostly composed of large facets, although there is a distinct area of small facets below, which 
curves upward behind and gradually narrows until it disappears some distance before the vertex 
is reached. Brown of upper part of the face less evident than in the female; in fact it is not sharply 
defined below, but gradually fades into the gray above the palpi. Body, wings and legs colored 
very near as in the female. 
One male from Malela. 
H. ochracea, which is at present known only from the Belgian Congo, is 
extremely close to H. wittata Loew, of which it is perhaps the rain forest repre- 
sentative. The only differences which I have been able to discover are those 
mentioned in the key. I believe, however, that they are of specific value, since 
they hold good for all the specimens I have seen (seven of vittata and eleven of 
ochracea). Bezzi’s statement that H. ochracea is related to H. fulva Austen is 
misleading, since the two have absolutely nothing in common. 
Haematopota mactans Austen 
Haematopota mactans Austen, 1908, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8) II, p. 106 ( ¢; Wadelai, Uganda); 
1909, ‘Illustr. African Blood-Suck. Flies,’ p. 129, Pl. XII, fig. 90 (¢). 
BELGIAN Conco. — Kapema to Kipaila, on the Luapula River (S. Neave). 
Kawawa River (near Sankisia), June 1911 (J. Rodhain). 
This species is widely distributed, being known from Somaliland, Abyssinia, 
Uganda, Kenya Colony, Tanganyika Territory, Northern and Southern Rho- 
desia, the Katanga District of the Belgian Congo, Nyasaland, and Portuguese 
East Africa. It is probably restricted to savanna country. 
Haematopota hirta Ricardo 
Haematopota hirta Ricardo, 1906, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) XVIII, pp. 100 and 101, Pl. ITI, fig. 1 
(9; Uganda). 
Haematopota nigrescens Ricardo, 1906, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) XVIII, pp. 100 and 103, Pl. III, 
fig. 3 (9; Altri-iga, Mawe, Kenya Colony). 
BELGIAN Coneo. — Kabango, northeast of Ruchuru (near the border of 
Uganda), at 1,800 m., November 4, 1914; Rueru, on the southwestern slope of 
Mt. Mikeno, at 9,500 ft. and also at 7,250 ft., March 1927. Lubengo, north- 
west of Lake Edward, April 28, 1927. 
Uacanpa. — Kisolo, April 3, 1927. 
