92 TYPE OF GLOSSINA LONGIPALPIS. 



Natural History Museum, Vienna] ; 1 $ , locality uncertain, 

 labelled *' Glossina longipalpis $ , Wied." in what is probably 

 Macquart's handwriting [V.]; 12 <J (J , 8 9?, Togo {Dr. 

 Schilling) [Royal Zoological Museum, Berlin] ; 1 ^ , " Zambesi " 

 (Dr. (now Sir) John Kirk). 



Habits, etc. 



8ee p, 86. We have as yet no special information concerning 

 the habits of Gl. longipalpis, Wied. 



Synonymy and Affinities. 



A glance at the synonymy already given under Glossina 

 palpalis, Hoh.-Desv., and Gl. morsitans, Westw., will show that 

 both of these species have at one time or another been mis- 

 taken for Gl. longipalpis, Wied. As pointed out on p. 77, 

 to judge merely from the description, the latter species would 

 seem to have been described from a specimen of Gl. palpalis 

 " with pale legs, and well-marked pale median stripe and hind 

 margins to the abdominal segments (i.e. var. tachinoides) " ; 

 moreover, as is further pointed out in Note ("j") on the same 

 page, Wiedemann's figure, valueless as it is, would support this 

 conclusion "by conveying the impression of a species with very 

 dark abdomen and well-marked pale hind margins to the 

 abdominal segments," With only the description to rely on, 

 the present writer had previously identified the Tsetse-flies found 

 by him at Sierra Leone in 1899 as Gl. longipalpis, Wied.,* — a 

 determination made with the greater confidence, since Wiedemann 

 states in his description that the type of the species is from 

 Sierra Leone, where it had been discovered by Adam Afzelius.f 

 On examining the specimen received from the Viemia Museum 

 as the type, however, it was at once seen that this belongs to a 

 species quite distinct from that described above as Gl. palpalis, 

 Rob.-Desv., and a doubt naturally arose as to whether the so-called 

 type was the true one, especially as the label attached to the 

 specimen bears the locality "Guinea" (instead of Sierra Leone), 

 in addition to the words " Glossina longipalpis, Wied." I there- 

 fore applied again to Herr Josef Bischof, of the Vienna Museum, 

 from whoin I had received the insect, and obtained the following 



* Cf. Aubtcn [162]. 



t A well-known Swedish botanist, who visited Free Town, Sierra 

 Leone, in the years 1792 and 1791, and made general coUectiona of 

 zoological and botanical specimens. 



