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not be lost. We shall see many of our species divided into 

 two or more, and the use o£ these terms for the new ones is 

 not difficult. I w^ould suo-aest that the native name common 

 in the district or one of I he districts where an animal or plant 

 is common should be used. For example^ I am naming a 

 new dragonfly, a Trithemis, from Natal, Trithemis 

 ujekomanzi, using the Zulu name for dragonfly as the 

 specific name (this in a paper shortly to be published). 



For common names the native names have much to 

 commend themselves. There is a common Gerbora near 

 Pietermaritzburg known as " Hilton daisy " at Hilton Road, 

 Natal, and as " Greytown daisy" at Grey town, Natal. I do 

 not see any better way out of the difficulty than for all who 

 are interested in naming this plant to adopt its native name. 

 The common ill-smelling Acridiid, Zonocerus elegans, is 

 called elegant grasshopper, dog locust, soldier grasshopper, 

 German soldier, and also " intotoviana.*' The first four 

 names are all not especially good, and the universal adoption 

 of the last or Zulu name, will go far to produce uniformity 

 and a well-soundino- title. 



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Wlien the South African Railways used Ixopo instead of 

 Stuartstown, and recently changed several other stations near 

 the edge of Pondoland, giving them native names, they 

 indicated an advisable practice for naturalists to follow. 



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The Tampan, Ornithodorus moubata, the conveyer of 

 relapsing fever to man : — 



A native who had been sent into a warthoo- 'nurrow was 

 attacked by ticks with which it was infested. At Mwenga, 

 N. Rhodesia, a specimen of 0. moubata was removed from 

 a warthog. (lAoyd, Z., Amer. Trap. Med. Parasit. Liver- 

 pool, ix. -I, 1015.) 



0. moubata has probably been introduced into Mada- 

 gascar from East Africa. A company of Senegalese who 

 travelled from Morudava to Majiuga were every one infested 



