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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[Feb., '06 



Observations on the Bionomics of Auchmeromyia 



luteola Fabricius. 



By F. C. Wellman, M. D., Benguela, W. Africa. 



Published under the auspices ofl the American Societ) <>t Tropical Medicine. 

 Several years ago I was interested in the native saying that 

 the fly mentioned in the title of this note produces the blood- 

 sucking maggot called %i Inyo" by the Angola Bantus. When 

 in Londou, in August, 1904, I submitted several of the flies 

 under discussion to Mr. Austen, of the British Museum, men- 

 tioning to him some facts as to their habits He pronounced 

 them to be Auchmeromyia luteola Fabr., and called my atten- 

 tion to the communication of Dutton, Todd and Christy to the 



Fig. 1.— Ovum (A), larva (B), and pupa (C) of A. luteola Fabr. Natural size. 



.—.l/it lufiri omvia lutt-ola Fabr. Female natural size. 

 Fig. 3.— Teased pupa r a t ton of the cephalic end of larva showing chitinoua armature. 



British Medical Association concerning the fly's larva. A 

 short time afterwards I read the communication in question in 

 the British Medical Journal under the title " The Congo Floor 

 Maggot."* On my return to Africa I began studying the fly 

 with the object of determining as far as possible by actual 

 observation its general habits and the steps in its metamor- 

 phosis. 



At first the flies died in captivity, but on discovering 



* September 17, 1904, p. 664. 



