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New African Tabanidae.—Part IV.*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Extract

The types of the seven new species described in the following pages are in the British Museum (Natural History). The subjoined list shows the countries in which the species have been obtained.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1914

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References

For names and illustrations of colours, see Ridgway, , “A Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists,” (Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1886.)Google Scholar

page 285 note * In fig. 1 the milky stripe is incorrectly shown as extending into the fourth posterior cell.

page 286 note * Coloured sketches of the eyes of this species in life, made at Ilorin, Northern Nigeria, by Dr. J. W. Scott Macfie, W.A.M.S., show that in the ♂ the upper (large-facetted) portion is pale fawn-coloured, speckled with a darker tint, while the lower border, which is composed of small facets, is darkish purple with two horizontal, greenish metallic bands, the upper of which is sinuous; in the ♀ the eye, which, as in other Tabanids, is of the same colour as the small-facetted lower border in the ♂, bears four horizontal, greenish metallic, sinuous bands.

page 288 note * The following specimens, also taken in Ilorin, Northern Nigeria, by Dr. Scott Macfie, are in the possession of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology: 1 ♂, 2 ♀ ♀ from Ilorin, 20, 23. v., and 28. vii. 1912; 1 ♀ from Afon, 29. v. 1912; and 1 ♂ and ♀ from Ariore, 22. vii. 1912.

page 291 note * Writing to the author from Coquilhatville, on 26. xi. 1910, with reference to this specimen, Dr. Yale Massey said: “ This is the only Haematopota met with so far. The wet season has now set in, but these flies do not seem to be here as yet.”

page 296 note * Also belonging to this group are Haematopota (Parhaematopota) coynata, Grünb., and a new species found, like the latter, in German East Africa; both of these, however, are at once distinguishable from the species mentioned above owing to the presence of a second pale band on the front tibiae.