-124 TSETSE ENCOUNTERED BY HAERIS. 



5. 1839. Captain (afterwards Sir) William Cornwallis Harris. 



"The Wild Sports of Southern Africa" (London: 

 John Murray), p. 231. 



A passage refening to the occurrence of Tsetse in the 

 JNIural Berge — a range of hills in the Waterbei-g District 

 of the present Transvaal, on the south bank of the Lim- 

 popo, close to the intez'section of the 27th parallel E. 

 longitude and the Tropic of Capricorn — ^in November, 1836. 

 Although not mentioned by name, it is very evident that 

 the Tsetse is the fly alluded to. The author writes : — "Here 

 the country again assumes a more level character, but is 

 broken to the eastward by detached hills and low ridges, 

 imperceptibly increasing in importance, until they gi-ow 

 into a great range of mountains, known to the natives as 

 the Mural. . . . During the rainy season especially, they are 

 infested by a large species of gad-fly, nearly the size of a 

 honey-bee, the bite of which, like that of a similar pest in 

 Abyssinia, proves fatal to cattle. A desire to escape the 

 officious visits of these destructive insects, whose persecu- 

 tions relieved us of two of our oxen, soon obliged us to 

 abandon the willow-fringed river, which threads the 

 mountains for a considerable distance. . . ." 



In the map at the end of the volume, entitlerl " Africa 

 North-East of the Cape Colony, exhibiting the relative 

 positions of the Emigrant Farmers and the Native Tribes, 

 May, 1837," the position of the Mural Berge is not quite 

 correctly indicated. They are there called the " Murat 

 [sic] Mount"s," and are marked as "abounding in flies 

 destructive to cattle." 



6. 1843. J. MacquarL 



" DiPTERES ExoTiQUES NouvEAux oU Peu Connus " : 

 Tome Deuxieme. 3^ Partie, pp. 112-114, Tab. 14, 

 Fig. 1, l\ 



Description of the genus Glossina, and notes as to its 

 affinities and probable habits : description of Gl. longi- 

 ^alpis $ (? = Gl. morsitans, Westw.). The figure of the 

 insect is very poor. 



7. 1849. F. Walker. 



" List of the Specimens op Dipi'erous Insects in 

 THE Collection op the British Museum." Part III. 

 p. 682. 



