G^OEDON CUMMING'S ACCOUNT. 125 



Original description of Stomoxys fuscus (Glosslna fusca), 

 and description of " Stomoxys longipalpis ? Glossina longi- 

 palpis" (= Glossina pal palis, Rob.-Desv.). 



8. 1850. J. Macquart. 



"DiPTERES EXOTIQUES NOUVEAUX OU PeU CoNNUS." 



4« Supplement, p. 239, Tab. 22, fig. 4. 



Description of Glossina longipalpis $ (?) {Gl. morsitans, 

 Westw.). The figui-e is an unrecognisable profile of the 

 abdomen. 



9. 1850. R. Gordon Cumming. 



" Five Years op a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior 

 OF South Africa" (London: John Murray), Vol. II., 

 pp. 210, 219-220, 227, 270. 



"They [natives] also told me that I should lose all 

 my cattle by the fly called 'Tsetse'" (p. 210). "When 

 under the mountains [on the south bank of the Limpopo 

 river, in the Zoutpansberg district of what is now the 

 Transvaal], I met with the famous fly called ' Tsetse,' 

 whose bite is certain death to oxen and horses. This 

 ' hunter's scourge ' is similar to a fly in Scotland called 

 ' kleg,' but a little smaller ; they are very quick and 

 active, and storm a horse like a swarm of bees, alighting 

 on him in hundreds and drinking his blood. The animal 

 thus bitten pines away and dies at periods varying from 

 a week to three months, according to the extent to which 

 he has been bitten" (pp. 219-220). "The next day 

 one of my steeds died of ' tsetse.' He had been bitten 

 under the mountain range lying to the south of this 

 fountain. The head and body of the poor animal swelled 

 up in a most distressing manner before he died. His 

 eyes were so swollen that he could not see, and in darkness 

 he neighed for his comrades who stood feeding beside 

 him " (p. 227). Death of a pony fi-om " Tsetse " (p. 270). 



10. 1850. J. O. Westwood. 



" Observations on the Destructive Species op 

 Dipterous Insects known in Africa under the Names 

 OF THE Tsetse, Zimb, and Tsaltsalva, and on their 

 supposed Connexion with the Fourth Plague of 

 Egypt" {Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 

 Part XVIIL, pp. 258-270, PI. XIX., figs. 1, l»-r, 2, 3). 



