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Uganda : one specimen from Aluba's, Madi Country, Wadelai, 

 November 1st, 1901 (G. S. Bettori) ; three specimens from Ankole, 

 May 9th, 1903, five from Buddu and Kyadondo, two from Entebbe, 

 " on an ox," and two without precise localities (Colonel Sir David 

 Bruce, C.B., R.A.M.C., F.R.S.) ; one specimen from Fajao, and one 

 from Wadelai, November, 1904, "on cattle" (Captain E. D. W. 

 Greig, I. M.S.) ; nine specimens from Buruli, in patch of forest on 

 Lukoge River, half-way between Junda and Kisiliza, 1903, and 

 one specimen from Junda, Buruli, in banana plantation near R. 

 Seziwa, 1903 (S. C. Tomkins, per Dr. Nabarro) ; two specimens 

 from Albert Lake District, 1905 (Dr. G. H. Pooley}. East Africa 

 Protectorate : one specimen from Njemps, and one without precise 

 locality, 1894 (Dr. J. W. Gregory}. Congo Free State : two 

 specimens from the vicinity of the Lualaba River, Katanga District, 

 between 9 and 10 S. Latitude, January, 1907 (Dr. A. Yale Massey). 

 Northern Nigeria : two specimens from Zungeru, June 28th and 

 July 3rd, 1905 (Dr. Dalziel) ; one specimen from the neighbourhood 

 of Dongwan, River Ka, July 18th, and one from Katsena Allah, 

 August, 1907 (J. Brand) ; one specimen from the Benue River, 

 between Amara and Ibi, 1908 (Dr. J. McF. Pollard, W.A.M.S.). 

 Gold Coast : one specimen from Sekondi, October 15th, 1906 (Dr. 

 W. M. Graham, W.A.M.S.). Sierra Leone : nine specimens from 

 Batkanu, Sierra Leone Protectorate, June, 1907, caught inside 

 donor's house, about 150 yards from river (Dr. H. E. Arbuckle, 

 W.A.M.S.}. During the expedition of the Liverpool School of 

 Tropical Medicine to the Gambia a specimen of this species " was 

 caught on board a steamer plying on the Gambia River."* Within 

 the last few years examples of Tabanus par have been received from 

 the Bahr-El-Ghazal, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and it may be added 

 that, according to Laveran,f the species also occurs in Mozambique, 

 Portuguese East Africa. 



Dr. Graham states that when alive Tabanus par is of a greenish- 

 yellow colour : an examination of specimens from Northern Nigeria, 



* Of. Newstead, Button and Todd, Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasilology, 

 Series'T. M., Vol. I., No. I. (February 1, 1907), p. 45. 



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