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INDEX. 



K 



Kilteb (or Kunteb), local name of 

 Simulium damnosum near Abu 

 Hamed, River Nile, Anglo- 

 Egyptian Sudan, 29. 



King, H. H., on life-history of Simulium 

 damnosum, 29 ; S. griseicollis, 32, 

 and Tabanus biguttatus, 89. 



kmgsleyi (Tabanus), 98. 



lacessens (Hajmatopota), 1.32. 

 lateralis (Pangonia (Corizoneura)), 61. 

 latipes (SimuUum), 25. 



(Tabanus), 84. 



laverani (Hgematopota), 126. 



(Tabanus), 115. 



lemairei (Tabanus), 99. 

 Liberia, list of species, 210. 

 Lipoptena, 163, 164, 165. 



cervi, 164. 



chalcomel»na, 164. 



liventipes (Tabanus), 107. 

 longicornis (Chrysops), 44. 

 Lynchia, 164. 



Lyperosia; how distinguished from 

 Stomoxys ; coloration and otlier 

 external characters ; number of 

 known African species, 160; hfe- 

 history, 161. 



and disease, 161. 



longipalpis (possibly = L mi- 



nuta), 160 (note). 



punctigera, 162. 



thirouxi, 140. 



M 



mactans (Ha?matopota), 129. 

 maculata (Hippobosca), 173. 

 maculatissimus (Tabanus), 91. 



irroratus (Tabanus), 91 



maculosa (Stygeromyia), 136. 



Mai de la Zousfana (trypanosomiasis of 



horses m Algeria), 124 

 Mangrove-flies (Tabanida-)," 36 

 marmoratus (Tabanus), 95. 

 Mauritania, list of species, 197 

 Mbori.a trypanosomiasis of dromedaries 



at Timbuctu, said to be propagated 



by Tabanus ditajniatus and T 



biguttatus, 72. 

 Mbwa, native name of Simulium 



damnosum in Uganda, 28 

 Mbwari, Ankondi name for Pangonia 



(Nyasaland), 58. ^ 



melanoijyga (Cadicera), 53. 



Melophagus ovinus (" Sheep Tick "), 

 164 ; probably occurs on sheep in 

 South Africa, 165. 



Midges (Chironomida?) ; distinctive 

 Characters of, from Mosquitoes 

 (Culicidie) ; external structural 

 characters, 1 ; proper method of 

 collecting and preserving, 2 • 

 smallest of all blood-sucking 

 flies, 1 ; blood - sucking habit 

 exceptional in ; confined to 

 females of relatively few species 

 belonging to subfamily Cerato- 

 pogoninas, 1. 



(species of Culicoides), known as 



" Sand-fiies " by Europeans in 

 Ashanti and on Gold Coast; 

 nuisance caused by, in Ashanti, 4. 



m Busoga, Uganda (Dr. C. 



Christy's observations), 4; in 

 Nyasaland Protectorate andNorth- 

 Eastern Rhodesia (Mr. R. L. 

 Harger's observations), 5. 



milnei (Culicoides), 6. 



morsitans (Tabanus), 117. 



Mouche boeuf, name applied to 



Stomoxys nigra in Mauritius, 157 



(note). 



Muscidai ; blood-sucking habit highly 

 exceptional in this family, con- 

 fined to very few genera and 

 species, but common to both 

 sexes ; blood - sucking genera 

 known to occur in Ethiopian 

 Region, 136. 



African blood-sucking ; dimen- 

 sions, coloration, proboscis, 140. 



(blood-sucking) and disease, 141 ; 



life-history, 141. 



Mycteromyia, 41. 



N 



Natal, hst of species, 192. 



N'gaya ihi, native name for Tabanus 



tasniola near Lake Chad, 103 

 Nigeria, Northern, list of species, 



1 o4, 



Southern, list of species, 185 



nigra (Stomoxys), 153. 



nigrostriatus (Tabanus), 107. 



Nimbu, Ahenga name for Pangonia 

 (Nyasaland), 58. 



Nimitti (Nimetta or Nemetti), local 

 name of Simulium griseicollis in 

 Dongola Province, Anglo-Egyp- 

 tian Sudan, 31 (and note). 



N'kuti, native name applied to Simu- 

 hum on Lulanga River, Uiiper 

 Congo, 23. 



nobilis (Holcoceria), 66. 



