1900.] IXSEC'TS AXl) AUACHXTBS YTIOM SOMALTLAXD. i 



rifles, and I was ol.lig.nl to tak.' out my little army twice against 

 villagers ; but luckily no blood was shed, as the villagers, seeing the 

 rifles coining, iinmediatelv restored my stolen property, i did no 

 collecting to speak of hei'e, as I was ill uith fever and was having 

 a verv anxious time. I could get no guide to take me across the 

 great waterless desert of the Mareban, and was obliged to load up 

 the water-vessels at Doosa Moreb and start without one. 1 believe 

 I was the first white man to visit the lieart of the Marehan and 

 Haweea Countries, and was right glad to shake off the dust from 

 my feet on quitting those inhospitable tribes. How I lost my 

 way crossing the Marehan Desert, ran short of water, and all but 

 died of thirst, I have alreadv described in the pages of the ' Wide 

 World Magazine.' We reached Gahidi in the Mijertam Country, 

 and found water in the very nick of time, when I was almost at 

 the last gasp. Here I became delirious, and knew nothing that 

 was going on around me for hours. After leaving (laladi I became 

 so ill and weak with fever that I did no further collecting, but was 

 practically carried by mv ponv the whole way across the wa,terless 

 Hand a^-aiu to the Gulis Range, where I remained a few days to 

 rest, and at length reached Berbera more dead than alive. 



A full account of my two expeditions, together with a complete 

 hst of every mammal and bird known to inhabit the countrv, will 

 be found in my book • Somaliland.' published m 1899 by Messrs. 

 F. E. Robinson & Co., London. 



The specimens mentioned and described in the following pages 

 are in the Hope Collection, University Museum, Oxford with the 

 exception of those which are expressly stated to be m the British 

 Museum. 



2. DIPTERA. 

 By E. E. Austen, Zoological Department, British Museum. 



Mr Peel's collection of Diptera was not extensive, amounting 

 only to four specimens belonging to three species, one of which, 

 however, is apparently new. 



Fam. T A B A X I d jE. 

 Subfani. Pangonix.i;. 

 Pangonia Latr. 

 Pangonia (sens, strict.) Rond. 

 Pangonia tricolor, sp. n. (Plate I. fig. 8.) 

 2 . Length 17 milUin. ; length of wing 15-5 millim. ; length of 

 proboscis 4 milUm. 



SMninq black; first and second segments of abdomen (except a 

 somewhat triangular area in the middle of the second segment, whuh, 

 however like the first and remainder of the second segment, ^s clotJied 

 tvith appressed silvery-white pile) white above; sixth and seventh 

 seamenis and the narrow posterior margin of the fifth ochraceous, and 

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