New African Tabanidae.—Part IV.*

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

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.

* For Part III, see Bull. Ent. Res., Vol. iii, p. 399 (December, 1912).