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Arbuckle states that in the Sierra Leone Protectorate T. jascialus 

 *' bites very viciously, often causing blood to flow from the 

 punctured spot." Dr. G. J. Pirie describes the flight of the insect 

 as " very noisy," and its bite as " rather painful." 



Tabanus brucei, Ricardo. 

 Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 8, Vol. I, p. 268 (1908). 



Plate VI., fig. 41. 



This large and easily recognisable species has hitherto been met 

 with only in Uganda and the Katanga District of the Congo Free 

 State. The Museum possesses five females (including the type), 

 from Ankole, Uganda Protectorate, May 9th, 1903 {received from 

 Colonel Sir David Bruce, C.B., R.A.M.C., F.R.S.). The eyes of 

 T. brucei in life are deep green, without bands. 



Tabanus africanus, G. R. Gray. 



Griffith's "Animal Kingdom " (Cuvier), Vol. 15, p. 794, Plate 114, 

 fig. 5 (1832) : redescription by E. E. Austen, Second Report of 

 the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial 

 College, Khartoum, p. 64, fig. 28 (1906). 



Plate VI., fig. 42. 



This easily-recognised species, which is certainly one of the 

 handsomest of the African representatives of the genus Tabanus, 

 can be confused only mth T. latipes, Macq. (p. 84, Plate VI., 

 fig. 43), to the notes on which the reader is referred for the distinctive 

 characters. As shown by the extensive series of specimens (two 

 males and forty-four females) in the Museum, the range of T. 

 africamis extends from Natal to the East Africa Protectorate and 

 the Nile Provinces of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and westwards 



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