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a male from Simon's Town, Cape of Good Hope, November, 1892 

 (P. de la Garde, R.N.), and one female, also from Cape Colony (ex 

 Saunders Collection). Pangonia angulata, Fabr., of which 

 Tanyglossa cingulata, Thunb., is a synonym, presents a deceptive 

 resemblance to P. conjuncta, Walk. (p. 64, Plate V., fig. 33) : the 

 two species may, however, be distinguished by the line of median 

 triangular spots on the abdomen of P. conjuncta (there being no white 

 hairs in the centre of the hind margins of the third and fourth 

 abdominal segments in P. angulata, at any rate in the female), by 

 the colour of the light hair on the dorsum of the thorax, which is 

 shorter and more golden-yellow in P. angulata, longer and paler in 

 P. conjuncta, by the hair on the under side of the head in the latter 

 species being white instead of maize-yellow, and by the head of the 

 male being broader in P. conjuncta than in P. angulata. 



Westermann,* writing of insects at the Cape of Good Hope nearly 

 ninety years ago, stated that, while several species of Pangonia 

 were very common, domestic animals were tormented especially by 

 P. angulata, P. rostrata, Linn., and P. (Corizoneura) lateralis, Fabr., 

 and that the latter species and P. angulata were cunning enough 

 to select spots where their unfortunate victims were unable to 

 reach them, either with head or tail. It may be added that, in 

 Westermann's experience, species of the genus Tabanus appeared to 

 be rare at the Cape, and were not troublesome to animals. 



Pangonia compacta, Austen. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 8, Vol. I., p. 212 (1908). 



PLATE IV., FIG. 28. 



In its typical form this species has as yet been met with only in 

 Southern Rhodesia, whence the Museum has received the type and 

 five other females, all of which were taken at Salisbury, Mashonaland, 

 in March, 1900, and April, November, and December, 1899 (O. A. 



* Germar's Magazin der Entomologie, Bd. IV., p. 427 (1821). 



