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INDEX. 



K 



Kilteb (or Kunteb), local name of 

 Simulium damnosum near Abu 

 Hamed, River Nile, Anglo- 

 Egyptian Sudan, 29. 



KINO, H. H., on life-history of Simulium 

 damnosum, 29 ; S. griseicollis, 32, 

 and Tabanus biguttatus, 89. 



kingsleyi (Tabanus), 98. 



lacessens (Hsematopota), 132. 

 lateralis (Pangonia (Corizoneura)), 61. 

 latipes (Simulium), 25. 



(Tabanus), 84. 

 laverani (Haematopota), 126. 



- (Tabanus), 115. 

 lemairei (Tabanus), 99. 

 LIBERIA, list of species, 210. 

 Lipoptena, 163, 164, 165. 



cervi, 164. 



chalcomelsena, 164. 

 liventipes (Tabanus), 107. 

 longicornis (Chrysops), 44. 

 Lynchia, 164. 



Lyperosia ; how distinguished from 

 Stomoxys ; coloration and other 

 external characters ; number of 

 known African species, 160 ; life- 

 history, 161. 



and disease, 161. 



- longipalpis (possibly = L. mi- 

 nuta), 160 (note). 



- punctigera, 162. 

 thirouxi, 140. 



M 



mactans (Haematopota), 129. 

 maculata (Hippobosca), 173. 

 maculatissimus (Tabanus), 91. 



- irroratus (Tabanus), 91. 

 maculosa (Stygeromyia), 136. 

 Mai de la Zousfana (trypanosomiasis of 



horses in Algeria), 124. 

 Mangrove-flies (Tabanidse), 36. 

 marmoratus (Tabanus), 95. 

 MAURITANIA, list of species, 197. 

 Mbori.a trypanosomiasis of dromedaries 



at Timbuctu, said to be propagated 



by Tabanus ditaeniatus and T. 



biguttatus, 72. 

 Mbwa, native name of Simulium 



damnosum in Uganda, 28. 

 Mbwari, Ankondi name for Pangonia 



(Nyasaland), 58. 

 melanopyga (Cadicera), 53. 



Melophagus ovinus (" Sheep Tick "), 

 164 ; probably occurs on sheep in 

 South Africa, 165. 



Midges (Chironomidae) ; distinctive 

 characters of, from Mosquitoes 

 (Culicidse) ; external structural 

 characters, 1 ; proper method of 

 collecting and preserving, 2 ; 

 smallest of all blood-sucking 

 flies, 1 ; blood - sucking habit 

 exceptional in ; confined to 

 females of relatively few species, 

 belonging to subfamily Cerato- 

 pogoninae, 1. 



(species of Culicoides), known as 



" Sand-flies " by Europeans in 

 Ashanti and on Gold Coast ; 

 nuisance caused by, in Ashanti, 4. 



in Busoga, Uganda (Dr. C. 



Christy's observations), 4 ; in 

 Nyasaland Protectorate and North - 

 Eastern Rhodesia (Mr. R. L. 

 Harger's observations), 5. 



milnei (Culicoides), 6. 



morsitans (Tabanus), 117. 



Mouche boeuf, name applied to 

 Stomoxys nigra in Mauritius, 157 

 (note). 



Muscidse ; blood-sucking habit highly 

 exceptional in this family, con- 

 fined to very few genera and 

 species, but common to both 

 sexes ; blood - sucking genera 

 known to occur in Ethiopian 

 Region, 136. 



- African blood-sucking ; dimen- 

 sions, coloration, proboscis, 140. 

 (blood-sucking) and disease, 141 ; 

 - life-history, 141. 



Mycteromyia, 41. 



N 



NATAL, list of species, 192. 



N'gaya illi, native name for Tabanus 

 taeniola near Lake Chad, 103. 



NIGERIA, NORTHERN, list of species, 



184. 

 SOUTHERN, list of species, 185. 



nigra (Stomoxys), 153. 



nigrostriatus (Tabanus), 107. 



Nimbu, Ahenga name for Pangonia 

 (Nyasaland), 58. 



Nimitti (Nimetta or Nemetti), local 

 name of Simulium griseicollis in 

 Dongola Province, Anglo-Egyp- 

 tian Sudan, 31 (and note). 



N'kuti, native name applied to Simu- 

 lium on Lulanga River, Upper 

 Congo, 23. 



nobilis (Holcoceria), 66. 



