24 DESCEIPTION OF GLOSSINA PALPALIS. 

 Glossina palpalis, Kob.-Desv. 



(Plate I.) 



Nemorhina palpalis, Robineau-Desvoidy, Essai sur les ]\Iyodaires (Memoires- 

 Presentes jjar Divers Savans a I'Acad^mie Royale des Sciences de 

 rinstitut de France. Sciences Mathematiques et Physiques. Tome 

 Deuxieme), p. 390 (1830). 



Glossina longipalpis, Walker (nee Wiedemann), Entomologist, VI, p. 328 

 (1873). 



Glossina ventricosa, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 6" S6rie, T. 5, pp. 122, 

 123 (1885). 



Glossina longipalpis, Bigot (ncc Wiedemann), ibid. p. 122. 



Glossina tabanifornis, Bigot (wc Westwood), ibid. p. 123. 



Glossina longipalpis, Austen {ncc Wiedemann), Report of the Proceedings 

 of the Expedition for the Study of the Causes of Malaria, etc., p. 18 

 (1899). 



Glossina palpalis, Austen, "A Monograph of the Tsetse-Flies," p. 71, 

 Plate I (1903) ; Newstead, Button and Todd, Annals of Tropical 

 Medicine and Parasitology, Series T. M., Vol. I, No. 1, pp. 57-71, 

 Plate III, figs. 7-9 (February 1, 1907). 



Glossina maculata, Newstead, Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasit- 

 ology, Series T. M., Vol. I, No. 1, p. 73, Plate III, figs. 5, 6 (February 1, 

 1907). 



^, 9. — Length,* ^ (10 specimens, from different localities) 

 8 to 9 mm., $ (10 specimens, from different localities) 8-6 to 

 10-2 mm. ; width of head, ^ 2-4 to 2-6 mm., $ 2-5 to just 

 under 3 mm. ; width of front at vertex, ^ 0"6 mm., 9 1 mm. ; 

 length of wing, cJ 7 to 8-4 mm., 5 8-4 to 9"2 mm. 



Abdomen dove-brown j or blaehish-brown ; thorax usually paler, 

 ■with darlc brown marhings on a greyish ground, as shown in 

 Plate I ] abdomen generally with at least an indication of a pale 

 or slate-grey longitudinal median stripe, with pale lateral triangidar 

 marlcings, and usually the hind margins of the segments narroioly 

 pale. Femora in typical race more or less mouse-grey, greyish- 

 brown, or dark slate-coloured ; tibiae, extreme tips of femora, and 

 first three joints of front and middle tarsi buff or ochraceous-huff, 

 hind {or middle and hind) tibiae sometimes infuscated in ^ ; hind 



* The length given is in the case of all species exclusive of the proboscis 

 and palpi, and is measured from the epistoma (front margin of the lower 

 part of the face) to the tip of the abdomen. 



t In the names employed for colours throughout this book, the author 

 follows Ridgway's "Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists" (Boston:. 

 Little, Brown, and Company, 1886). 



