966 REPORT OF THE HARVARD AFRICAN EXPEDITION 
Most of the specimens taken were attempting to bite man. 
H. hirta is known from Uganda, the neighboring part of the eastern Belgian 
Congo, Kenya Colony, and the lower slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. It evidently 
prefers the mountain forest. 
Haematopota tabanula, new species 
Female. — Length, 11 mm.; width of head, 3.5 mm.; width of frons, 0.6 mm.; length of wing, 
7 mm. 
Appearing much like a small species of Tabanus, but slender and with the wings ornamented. 
Abdomen brown with white markings. White markings of each segment consist of a mid-dorsal 
streak, lateral spots, side margins, and narrow posterior margins. Wing rather pale. Legs largely 
yellowish; tibiae with alternate light and darker bands. 
Head: frons yellowish gray pollinose; central frontal spot very small, nearly round; lateral 
frontal spots rounded, well above the frontal callosity and not reaching the eyes; frontal callosity 
transverse, about the same width throughout, very nearly reaching the eyes; face and cheeks 
gray pollinose and white pilose, without spots, only slightly brownish near the antennae, especially 
laterally. Antennae rather pale yellow; first segment shorter than usual, about half as long as the 
entire length of the third segment; third segment wide at base, dorsal basal angle not prominent, 
gradually narrowed to annulate portion which is small and not over one-third as long as the basal 
division. Palpi gray, slender, with white hairs basally and sparse black hairs otherwise; beard 
white. Thorax dorsally brownish, with faint gray stripes, clothed mostly with short pale hairs; 
sides and venter white and white hairy. Scutellum with sides and disk gray; sides quite plainly 
brown. Abdomen: above brown; first segment with lateral and posterior margins and spot on 
either side of the scutellum gray; second segment with a transverse patch on anterior margin 
connected with a lateral spot on either side, a narrow mid-dorsal streak, and narrow lateral and 
posterior margins, gray; third segment similar to second; fourth and fifth segments similar to 
second and third, except that the transverse spot on anterior margin is not visible; sixth and 
seventh segments each with a single gray marking, emarginate posteriorly, and the margin gray. 
Venter of abdomen nearly uniformly brownish gray; end segment black hairy. Wing with brown 
stigma, the anterior part of which is pale; whole wing quite pale; light and dark markings not 
strongly contrasted, but much broken up; second basal cell with a pale cross-band near basal 
third and a lunulate spot in apical third; discal cell with a pale, oblique cross-band near basal 
third and a nearly divided patch at apical third; axillary cell with a rounded, pale, basal marking 
and a median, light, angular streak; costal cells yellowish hyaline; veins pale. Halteres pale 
yellowish. Legs: femora all nearly uniformly pale yellowish; fore ones partially dark hairy above, 
otherwise pale hairy; other femora entirely pale hairy; fore tibiae pale on basal two-fifths, re- 
mainder dark; middle and hind tibiae much alike, each banded with two light and two dark bands 
as follows: light basally, dark at middle followed by light, and dark apically; all the tarsi in large 
part infuscated, although the middle and hind metatarsi are yellowish basally. 
Beucian Coneo. — Lubutu, one female holotype and one female paratype, 
January and February 1915. 
This ‘species superficially resembles H. crudelis Austen and H. cruentata 
Austen, although not closely allied to either. The relatively narrow frons readily 
separates H. tabanula from the other species with somewhat similar abdominal 
markings or antennae. 
Haematopota hirsutitarsus Austen 
Haematopota hirsutitarsus Austen, 1908, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8) I, p. 286 (9; Bailundo, 
Benguela, Portuguese West Africa). 
BrLa1an Coneo. — Kasununu River (near Shinsenda), one female, May 5, 
1912. This locality is on the Congo-Zambesi watershed, close to the border of 
Rhodesia. 
