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Haematopota denshamii, Austen. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 8, Vol. I., p. 220 (1908). 



PLATE XI., FIG. 85. 



Hcematopota denshamii, Austen, has as yet been recorded only 

 from the Nile Province of Uganda, the Lado Enclave, and the 

 Southern Bahr-El-Ghazal (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan). The specimens 

 in the Museum Collection consist of seven females, including 

 the type and three other specimens taken between Nimule 

 and Wadelai, in the Nile Province, Uganda, in June, 1906 

 (the late Dr. W. A. Densham), two individuals from Nimule, 

 November, 1904, " on cattle " (Captain E. D. W. Greig, I. M.S.), 

 and an example from the Acholi Country, Uganda (M. T. Dawe). 

 When forwarding his specimens the late Dr. W. A. Densham, 

 in whose memory the species is named, wrote as follows : " This 

 species was a great pest in June, 1906, between Nimule and 

 Wadelai, especially where the grass was long. It did not occur 

 particularly near water, but chiefly along native paths, through 

 open rolling grassy country. Natives are much annoyed by its 

 bite." Females of this species, from the Southern Bahr-El-Ghazal 

 and the Lado Enclave, are in the possession of the Wellcome 

 Research Laboratories, Khartoum.* 



Hcematopota denshamii belongs to a group of species, other 

 members of which are H. similis, Ricardo, H. laverani, Surcouf, 

 H. unicolor, Ricardo, H. duttoni, Newstead, and H. copemanii, 

 Austen. In the species belonging to this group the stripes on the 

 dorsum of the thorax are very conspicuous, while in the wings the 

 tips and hind borders are much darker than the rest of the surface. 

 Hcematopota pertinens, Austen, which is found from Northern 

 Nigeria to Southern Rhodesia, is somewhat more distantly allied to 

 the group. 



* Of. H. H. King, " Third Report of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the 

 Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum," p. 211 (1909). 



