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than mosquitoes and dotriinontal 

 to cattlo, 28 ; lifti-liistory and 

 habits (H. H. King's obst.>r\at ions); 

 hvrva ; pupa. 2'J. 

 Simuiiuin grisi-ifoUis ; locally known aa 

 Nimitti (Xinietta or Nometti) in 

 Dongola I'rovint'O, Anglo-Egyp- 

 tian Sudan, 31 ; most troublesome 

 at simset and sunrise, 34 ; occiu"- 

 renco on River Nile, in Anglo- 

 Egyptian Sudan outside Dongola 

 Province, 35 ; lite-history and 

 habits (H. H. King's observations), 

 32. 



latipes, a European species that 



occin-s in South Africa, 25. 



welhuanni, in .Angola, 3U. 



Sleeping sickness and Tabanidie and 



other biting flies (excluding Glos- 

 sina palpalis), 40 (note). 



not transmitted by 



Stomoxys under ordinary circum- 

 stances, 153. 



socialis (Tabanus), 100. 



SoMALiLAND, list of species, 210. 



Soumaya or souma, a trypanosomiasis 

 of horses and humped cattle at 

 Segou (French Sudan), said to be 

 propagated by Tabanus ditteniatus 

 and T. biguttatus, 72. 



stigmaticalis (Chrysops), 45. 



Stomoxys ; number of Ethiopian 

 siDccies, 141 ; life-history, 142. 



and disease, 142. 



boufTardi, 150 (note). 



calcitrans, 142 ; probably occurs 



throughout Africa ; exists through- 

 out the greater part of the world ; 

 localities of specimens, 143 ; mode 

 of sucking blood (Newstead's 

 observations), 145 ; Linnseus's 

 observations, 145 (note) ; anatomy 

 of mouth-parts and internal 

 anatomy ; life-history, 146. 



as a disease carrier : an- 

 thrax, filariasis, 148 ; sm-ra and 

 other trypanosomiases, 14'J. 



the intermediate host and 



transmitter of Filaria labiato- 

 papillosa of the ox, 148. 



and S. nigra and disease ; 

 summary, 153. 



- and S. nigra by far the 



most widely distributed species of 

 Stomoxys in Africa, 142, 143. 



- glauca {—^ S. nigra), 153. 



- inornata, 159. 



- lafonti (=^ S. nigra), 154 (note). 



- nigra, 153 ; except S. calcitrans, 

 the most widely distributed repre- 

 sentativ'e of its genus in Africa, 

 153 ; S. nigra in Ashanti (observa- 

 tions by Dr. W. M. Graham), 155. 



Stomoxys nigra as a diseivse- carrier, 150. 



believed to disseminato 



surra in Mauritius, 154, 157 (and 

 note) ; said to causi; disease among 

 cami^ls in East .Africa I'rotoc- 

 torat(^ (Dr. .J. VV. Greg(jry), and 

 among ilonkeys, nudes, horses, and 

 camels in the iiahr-el-Gha/.al (ob- 

 servations by the late Major 

 T. E. N. Lewis, A.V.D.), 15t>. 



omega, 157 ; secondary sexual 



characters in male ; differences 

 between female and that of S. 

 inornata, 158. 



• sp. capable of transmitting Try- 



panosdina cazalboui, the i)arasite 

 of s(/inna, in French Sudan, 149. 



strigipennis (Hippocentrum), 134. 



Stygeromyia, characters of genus, 13G. 



maculcjsa, 13(>. 



sanguinaria, 137. 



suavis (Pangonia (Diatomineura)), 65. 



subangustus (Tabanus), 112. 



Subpangonia, 42, 55. 



subvittatus (Tabanus), 73. 



SiuTa and Phlebotomus (in India), 18. 



SwAVNE, Col. H. G. C, R.E., observa- 

 tions on Tabanidae in Soraaliland, 

 63. 



Sycorax silacea, a Palaearctic blood- 

 sucking species of Psychodida? 

 (I'hlebotominae) ; occurrence of 

 another (undescribed) blood-suck- 

 ing species of same genus in 

 Algeria, 9 (note). 



Tabanidae, external characters, 36-38 ; 

 number of described, and of known 

 Ethioi)ian species, 36 ; blood- 

 thirstiness of females, 38. 



enemies of, 39. 



life-history, 39. 



and disease, 40. 



and other biting flies (excluding 



Glossina palpalis) and sleeping 

 sickness, 40 (note). 



frequently asserted by natives to 



be responsible for diseases of 

 animals, 41. 



Tal^aninse, 66. 



Tabanus, ninnber of describeil .African 

 si)ecies, 67 ; plastic characters 

 used in distinguishing species. 67 ; 

 colour and markings of eyes in the 

 liv'ing insects ; wide distribution 

 of certain species ; called Man- 

 grove-flies in West Africa, 68 ; 

 rare in Cape Colony, <'>1 : life- 

 history, 69. 



and disease, 70. 



■ ajneus, 110. 



