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12. Ochromyia anthropophaga, E. Blanch. 



This fly is frequent in the south of Senegal, especially in 

 Uiyor; the larvae (ver du Cayor) develop in the skin of man 

 logs, cats, jackals, & c . A closely-related form occurs in the 

 south-east of Africa. In consequence of their 

 manner of life these larvae were usually mis- 

 taken for the larvae of Oestridcz until R. 

 Blanchard recognised their real nature ; they 

 are the larvae of Muscida (Berenger-Ferand, 

 Lenoir and Railliet, Blanchard). 



[13. Auchmeromyia (Bengalia) depressa (The 

 Maggot Fly of Natal. 1 ) 



This fly, which belongs to the Sarcophagidze, 

 produces serious cutaneous myiasis. It occurs from 



Dela S oa Ba y to Natal and int Rhodesia. It is 



man, South Africa, common in Natal, from the Tugela downwards. 

 (After Blanchard.) 3/1. (Vide "Second Report on Economic Zoology," p. 112. 

 F. V. T.] 



[14. Auchmeromyia luteola, Fabr. (The Congo Floor Maggot). 



The maggots of this muscid fly occur in numbers in the native 

 huts in the Congo region. They get into crevices, &c., of the mud 

 floors and under the sleeping mats. At night they crawl out and 

 suck the blood of sleepers and then return to their shelter. The fly 

 is thickset and about the size and build of a blue-bottle. Length 

 10 12 mm. Tawny in colour with small black hairs covering its 

 body, giving it a smoky appearance. The flattened thorax has 

 longitudinal black and brown stripes ; the abdomen has a dark line 

 in the centre of the second segment which meets a dark line in its 

 posterior border, the dark brown third segment has a narrow yellow 

 anterior line ; the fourth is also dark with a paler posterior border. 

 The legs are buff, with black hairs and bristles. The fifth tarsal 

 joint is jet black. After a feast of blood the maggots become red- 

 dish. (Vide Mem. xiii. Liv. Sch. Trop. Med., p. 40, "The Congo 

 Floor Maggot," by Button, Todd, and Christy.) F. V. T.] 



" Agri. Jonrn. Dept. Agri. and Mines, Natal," vol. iv., p. 606, 1901, C. Fuller. 



