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Hippobosca maculata, Leach. 



" On the Genera and Species of Eproboscideous Insects," p. 8, 

 PL II., figs. 11-13 (Edinburgh: 1817): Memoirs of the 

 Wernerian Natural History Society, Vol. II., p. 553, Tab. 

 XXVI., figs. 11-13 (Edinburgh : 1818). 



PLATE XIII., FIG. 99.* 



Hippobosca maculata, Leach, a widely distributed species which is 

 common in West Africa as well as in many parts of Southern Asia 

 and elsewhere, doubtless owes its extensive range to its having been 

 imported into different countries with horses and cattle, on which 

 it is parasitic. The following are the localities, etc., of the African 

 specimens in the National Collection. Gold Coast, Northern 

 Territories: Gambaga, March 9th, 1904, "common on horses" 

 (Captain J. O'Kinealy). Ashanti : Kumasi, April 8th, 1905, " on 

 cattle " (Lieut. -Colonel G. M. Giles, late I. M.S.) ; Obuasi, February 

 19th and 21st, April 16th, and August 8th, 1906, and May 25th, 

 1907, " on cattle " (Dr. W. M. Graham, W.A.M.S.) ; North-West 

 Ashanti, September, 1906 (Dr. R. Cope, W.A.M.S.). Northern 

 Nigeria: Kontagora, October 15th, 1903, "terribly annoying to 

 horses " (Surgeon- Major J. J. V. A. C. Raye, W.A.M.S.) ; Yola, 

 Benue River, March 29th, 1905, and Bena, Kontagora Province, 

 June 12th, 1906 (W. F. Gowers) ; Zungeru, July 18th, 1905 (Dr. 

 J. M.Dalziel, W.A.M.S.) ; Akwatcha, Bassa Province, January 1st, 

 1907, " on horses and cattle " (Dr. G. J. Pirie) ; Keffi, Nassarawa 

 Province, April 29th, 1907 (Dr. R. F. Williams, W.A.M.S.); 

 Benue River, August, 1907 (J. Brand) ; South Bornu, September, 

 1907 (Dr. H. A. Foy, W.A.M.S.). Southern Nigeria : Abutshi, R. 

 Niger, 1903 (A. Braham). Egypt, " beyond the Cataracts," 1846 

 (C. Lamb). Abyssinia : Taddocha Mullka, February 8th, 1902 

 (E. Degen) ; Esser Gota, August 9th, and base of Mt. Fantali, 

 August 23rd, 1908 (Dr. R. E. Drake-Brockman). Somah'land 



* This figure, like that of the foregoing species, represents a fly in the resting 

 position. 



