66 



SOME BLOOD-SUCKINO AND OTHER DIPTF.RA FROM TUF. ANOLO-EOYPTIAN SUDAN 



Pycnosonia 

 inar^inatc 



Pi/ntOKOiiKi nmrijiiKili', 



Wii 



Pycnosoma 

 putorium 



(Fig. 29) 



Afii.sni iiKiiujiiiiili'i, Wiiilciiiaiiii, Ausscrtniroijiiiselu' zwi'iHiigt'ligc Insektuii, II. (1830), 

 p. 305. 



I'jicnasomii iiiiirijiiKilf, Austell, Aiiiials ami Jliignzine of Natural History, Ser. 7, 

 Vol. XVll. (Mairli I'.IUC), \>. 302 : ,/.,-. for lull syuoiiyiuy. 



In November IQlIf), this spi-cit-s was loiind by Major G. Danst-y Browning, R.A.M.C., 

 to be common on the Jur Hivi-r, liaiu-EI-Ghazal (Long. 8'' 2' N.), at ortlnre. Pijnionoiiia 

 iiKirijiiKtlr is " a tliic'k-set, stoutly built Hy, with orangc-buff-colouri'il face, and sliining, 

 nu'tallir iijuiu-iiurplr (U- metallic green body, recognisable at onee liy llie dark brown trout 

 border to the wings." * The species is distributed throughout Trupieal and Sub-Tropical 

 Africa, and is also abundant in the Transvaal and Natal ; eastwards its range ini hides 

 Arabia, and even extends as far as Quetta. 



MJCTVU — 



Fig. 29— Pycnosoma marginalr, Wied. 9 

 Tropical, Sub-Tropical, and S. Africa, and eastwards to Quetta. 

 Face, orange-bufT: front, ochraceous-rufous ; body, metallic plum-purple or metallic green, with dark bands on abdomen ; 

 legs, black ; wings with a dark brown basal patch and stripe along fore border. 



Pycnosoma lyiitovium, Wied. 

 (Fig. 30) 



Muscn piiforin, Wiedemann, Ausser- 

 europiiische zweifliigelige Insekten, II. 

 (1830), p. 403. 



I'^ciioKnma putorium, Auiiit'n. Annals 

 and I\Iagazine of Natural History, 

 Ser. 7, Vol. XVII. (March lOOti), p. 303. 



This common West African species, 

 which is found from Sierra Leone to the 

 Congo Free State, was met with by 

 Col. G. I). Hunter, D.S.O., in May, 

 1905, on a boat on the White Nile, 

 a few miles north of Melut, and also to 

 the south of Lake No. 



Fig. 30.— Pvcsosoma putoru-m, W'icd. ? 

 Sierra Leone to the Congo Free Stale and the Egyptian Sudan. 



Body metallic blui%h-green. la<^t two itegmpnt<* of abdomen bras!iy ; 

 transvente bands dull blue-bl.ick. 



• Austen, Journnl of the Roynl Army Medical Corps, loe. eit., p. 13. 



