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It may be mentioned that, according to information received from 

 Dr. Edward Halford Ross, Sanitary Officer, Port Said : — " The blood- 

 sucking fly Phlebotomus, which is so common throughout Egypt, 

 is not prevalent at Port Said." A species of Phlebotomus which 

 occurs in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is very probably also Ph. 

 papatasii, but in this case again the material available is insufficient 

 to warrant the expression of a definite opinion ; two specimens 

 from Kassala, August, 1899 {Captain H. H. 8. Morant), are 

 unfortunately both females ; so far as it is possible to judge, they 

 exhibit the characters of Ph. papatasii, and they are certainly 

 distinct from Ph. duboscqi. The annoyance frequently caused at 

 Khartoum by tlie nocturnal attacks of a species of Phlebotomus 

 has been alluded to by Dr. Andrew Balfour.* 



Phlebotomus duboscqi, Neveu-Lemaire. 



Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France, Vol. XXXI. , p. 65, 



figs. 1-3 (p. 66) (1906). 



Plate I., fig. 4. 



This species, the first of its genus to be described from Africa, 

 was originally met with at Hombori, to the south of Timbuctoo, 

 French Sudan, in May, 1905. According to Dr. W. M. Graham, 

 Ph. duboscqi was a great nuisance in a neglected European latrine 

 at Bekwai Station, Ashanti, on the Gold Coast Government 

 Railway (148 miles from Sekondi), in July, 1907. Besides one 

 specimen from Bekwai, July 9th, 1907 {Mr. Haines, per Dr. W. M. 

 Graham, W.A.M.S.), the Museum possesses a number of females of 

 Ph. duboscqi in spirit, from the Cross River, Southern Nigeria, 

 1906 {Dr. R. W. Gray, W.A.M.8.). The abdomens of most of the 

 latter are distended with what seems to be blood, but in one case 

 the distension is due to a mass of relatively large, dark brown 



* Cf. Andrew Balfoiu-, M.D., B.Sc, &c., " Second Report of the Wellcome Research 

 Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum," pjj. 33-34 (Khartoum: 

 Department of Education, Sudan Government, 1900). 



