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Pupation apparently takes place as a rule in mud, moist earth, 

 or damp sand close to the water's edge ; the pupa is distinguishable 

 from that of Tabanus by the antennae projecting beyond, instead 

 of not reaching the edge of the head, as also by certain differences 

 in the margins of the spiracular prominences and in the length of 

 the abdominal spines. 



Chrysops and No observations on this head have yet been 

 Disease. recorded. 



Chrysops funebris, Austen. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 7, Vol. XX., p. 507 



(1907). 



PLATE II., FIG. 9. 



This extremely dark-coloured species, in which the body is 

 uniformly black, is at present represented in the Museum CoUection 

 by only five specimens, all of which are females. Of these, four are 

 from the north-east side of Lake Edward, Uganda Protectorate, 1906 

 (Dr. A. D. P. Hodges], while the fifth specimen, which is also from 

 Uganda, was taken on the shore of Lake Victoria, in Buddu, in 1903 

 (Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society, per Colonel 

 Sir David Bruce, C.B., R.A.M.C., F.R.S.). No information as 

 to the bionomics of the species it at present available. 



Chrysops longicornis, Macquart. 



Memoires de la Societe royale des Sciences, de V Agriculture et des 

 Arts de Lille, Annee 1838, 2ieme partie, p. 160 : Dipteres 

 Exotiques, T. I., 1, p. 156, PI. 19, fig. 2 (1838). 



PLATE II., FIG. 10. 

 Chrysops longicornis, of which C. tarsalis, Walker, and C. 



