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INDEX 



Sphegidae, methods compared with Pom- 

 pilidae, 300 



unusual nesting place of, 295 



prey of, 294 



Lycoid, 232 

 Sphex margiiiatus, 302 



pelopaeiformis, 295 

 Sphinc/omorpha, 221 

 Spider (see also Nephila), 120, 318-9 



eaten by Sunbird, 177 



and Dorylus, 279 



anticryptic, 203 



mimetic, 227-8 



stored by Sceliphron, 297 



curious web of, 318-9 

 Spider islands, 102, 105, 107, 109, 114-5, 

 118, 120, 124 



scarcity of birds on, 102, 103, 105, 120, 

 124 



predaceous insects on, 108, 105, 109, 120 

 124 

 Spines of caterpillars, 213 

 Spirochaetes, 18 

 Spizdetus coronatus, 164 

 Sporozoa, 11 



Starling, glossy, absent from islands, 176 

 (Stick insect) (see Phasmidae) 

 • Stilt, 152 

 (Sthik ant) (see PaUothpreus) 

 Stone Curlew, 97, 160-1 

 Stork, 146, 155 



Common, 155 



(open bil'.ed) (see Anastomus) 



(saddle billed) (see Epkippiorhynchus) 



(whale headed) (see Balaeniceps) 

 Storm, 73-5, 82-3, 91-2, 101, 123 

 Stylogaster and Eciton, 281 

 Sunbird, 103, 105, 111-3, 115, 121-2, 124 



caught in web of Nephila, 109 

 Sunflower, 70, 122 

 Surra, 14, 18 

 Swallow, 108, 113, 117 

 SWYNNERTON, C. F. M., ou blrds and 

 butterflies, 236-7 



on relative edibility, 217 

 (Syntomidae (see Epitoxis) 

 Syntomosphi/rum glossince, 51-2 



Tabanidae (see also Chrysops, Tabanus), 



carriers of Trypanosomes, 18 

 Tabanus thoracinus, 293 



variabilis, 315 



variatus, 97 

 Tachinidae, 220, 286, 288, 297-8, 315, 316 

 Tarucus telicanus. 111, 121, 124 

 Tasting, experimental, 212-3 

 Tavu isle, 96-7, 180, 182-4, 189 



Glossina on, 32, 47-9 

 breeding places of, 55 



butterflies on, 125 

 Tchitrea emini. 102, 103, 105, 110, 115 116 

 124, 171,174 



local island races of, 275 



nest of, 174 

 Tdipna nyanzfp, 233 

 Teracolu^, 114 



seasonal forms of, 202 



bricht colours of, 208-9 

 Terias, 114 



colouration of, 204 



attacked by bee-e<atcr, 173, 237 

 Termites. 80, 97, 162 



absent from some 'slands, 96, 112 



prey of Megavonpra, 283 

 (Tern) (-(ce Ihidronhelidon) 

 TiiAYER, A. H., on colouration, 204, 238 

 Thrush, 112, 119, 179 

 Ticks, scarce on islands, 319 



Tiger moth, 213 



Tipulidae. 310 



ToKwi Isle, 121-2 



Tortoise, 39, 135, 186 



( Tragelaphus spekei) (see Situtunga) 



Trees (see also '" Ekirikisi," Fig-tree, Podo 



carpus\ 70, 72, 95, 98-9, 104-5 

 Trilncha obliquissima, caternillar of, 215-6 

 Trimen, n.. 195, 245, 253 " 

 Thing mu«eum. Ps. eurylus in, 246, 249 



253-4 

 Tringoides hypoleucos , 146, 151 

 Trypanoplasma, 12, 13 

 Trypanosoma, 12-14 

 brucei, 14, 16 

 becomes rhodesiense by mutation, 17 

 believed to be mechanically trans- 

 mitted, 23, 25 

 carripd by Q. morsitam, 23 

 natural hosts of, 26 

 equiiium, 14 

 eguiperdum, 14 

 evansi, 14 

 gambiense, 13, 14, 24 



possibly carried by G. warsitans, 9 

 and natural hosts, 15, 26-9 

 life cycle, 25-6, 40 

 still pathogenic on depopulated 

 islands, 28 

 grayi, 40 

 lew! si, 13 

 nigerienae, 15, 17 

 rhodesiense, 10, 14, 17 

 vivax, 13, 40 

 Trypanosomes, and Sleeping Sickness, 7, 24 

 position in animil kingdom, 11 

 near relations, 12 

 general appearance, 13 

 human, 6, 9, 10, 14, 23 

 do not always cause disease, 15 

 hosts of, 15-17 

 life cycle of, 17, 25, 40 

 and bacilli, in gut of fly, 40-1 

 carriers of, 18 



compared with Spirochaetes, 18 

 and direct inoculation, 23 

 no hereditary transmission of, 25 

 Trypanosomiasis, human, 2, 23 

 in Rra7il, 14, 18 

 in Nigeria, 15 

 in Rhodesia, 9, 10 

 compared with Nagana, 24-5 

 acriiiired imranuity in, 17 

 Tse-tse (sec also Olossina), in Uganda, 8 



origin of name, 19 

 (Tsetse fly disease) (sec " Nagana ") 

 (Tufted Umbre) (see Scopus) 

 TULLOCH, Lt., 7 

 (" Tutuma ") (see Coucal), 166 



Uganda, Ps. eurytus in, 245, 247-8, 250-2, 

 254-9, 262-3 

 Sleeping Sickness in, 7, 8 

 Ukerewe Isle, 67 

 Vranothauma, 110 

 Usamhaka, Ps. eurytus from, 254 



Van Someren, Dr., 171 

 Varanus, 182-5 



as food of 0. palpalis, 37-8 



nesting places, 98, 118, 183 



basking places, 183 



food of, 151, 184-5, 320 



relations with crocodile, 183 



numbers on different isles, 96, 99 

 109-113, 115, 116, 118-9, 122, 124 

 Variations, continuity in, 270 



geographical, 235, 241, 247, 262 



