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are as follows. — Gold Coast : Cape Coast Castle (F. Scott) ; Wassau 

 Territory, 1901 {Dr. S. II. Jones) ; 8ekondi, October 23rd-3Ist, 

 1906 [Dr. W. M. Gralmm, W.A.M.8.). .Southern Nigeria: Cross 

 River, lOOG {Dr. R. W . Gray). Congo Free State : Bolengi, Upper 

 Congo, July, 1903 {Dr. E. A. Laijton) ; Lutete, November 20th, 

 1903 {Drs. Dutton, Todd, and Christy). A female, taken at Bo, 

 Sierra Leone Protectorate, in October, 1908 {Dr. H. E. Arbuckle, 

 W.A.M.S.), is in the possession of the London School of Tropical 

 Medicine. 



Of Tabanus ruficrus, as met with in the Congo Free State by the 

 members of the expedition of the Liverpool School of Tropical 

 Medicine to the Congo, 1903-05, Dr. Todd writes* :— " This fly was 

 caught only near water, usually while attempting to bite passengers 



in canoes or steamers They fly very rapidly and strongly, 



and have been seen at over 100 yards from the banks of the river. 

 They seem to be very local. For example, near Pania Mutombo ten 

 or a dozen were seen at the same moment darting about a canoe. 

 A Httle further down the river towards Lusarabo none were seen for 

 miles." Writing with reference to this species in French Congo 

 M. Roubaud saysf : — •" Common, especially in October, disappear- 

 ing during the remainder of the year, then reappearing in October 

 at Brazzaville, and invading houses and stables ; bites human beings 

 on the rivers." 



It may be noted that Tabanus pervasus, Walk., and T. deyroUei, 

 Big., are synonyms of this species. 



Tabanus brumpti, Surcouf. 



Bulletin du Museum d''Histoire Naturelle, Annee 1907, No. 1, p. 42 



(Paris, 1907). 



Plate VIL, fig. 49. 



Although described by its author as a " variety " of the foregoing, 



* Of. Newstead, Dutton and Todd, Annals of Tropical Medicine ami Parasitology, 

 Series T. M., Vol. I., No. I., p. 45 (February 1, 1907). The si)ecie9 is erroneously styled 

 " Tabanus rnfipps, Maeq.," which is a synonym of T. par. Walk. 



t Cf. Surcouf and Roubaud, loc. cit. 



