144 CHAPMAN OX TSETSE AND BUFFALO. 



the buffalo, and endeavours to catch some Tsetse for my 

 inspection. 



"31st December. — John went off early, and soon sent 

 me a fly, which, happily, proved not to be the dreaded 

 Tsetse. The Makalakas say the 'fly' was brought into 

 these parts by the elands from the north, after they had 

 been denuded of their former inhabitants. Heavy rains 

 are said to kill the fly in the season when they prevail. I 

 have learned from the natives that the Tsetse deposit 

 their larva^ in the dung of the buffalo. Snyman tells me, 

 that when he was living at Sekeletu's [another name for 

 Linyanti, on the Chobe R.] a report was brought in that 

 Tsetse had crossed the river to a cattle post. The people 

 in charge fled with the cattle, and Sekeletu sent off a party 

 to burn them back again, firing the grass, and afterwards 

 sent the cattle there again. I do not quite understand 

 this, for I know fields burnt down regularly every year 

 which are still infested with Tsetse. I think the only 

 chance of exterminating them is to keep up constant 

 warfare with the buffaloes until they are driven out. Gene- 

 rally, when they have entered a new country with game, 

 they soon increase and extend themselves farther every 

 year, if the country is suitable " (Vol. II., pp. 249-250). 



31. i868. J. R. Schiner. 



" Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die 

 Erde : " Diptera, p. 311. 



Note on a specimen of " Glossina longijpaljpis W." 

 (probably = Gl. morsifans, Westw.) from "Central Africa." 



32. i868. 



" Die GiFTFLlEGB TZETZE ODER TZALTZALA IN AbES- 



sinien" {Das Ausland, 41. Jahrgang, p. 192). 



A short article in which the identity of the Tsetse 

 with the "Tzaltzala" (Tsaltsalya) of James Bruce* is 

 accepted as proved : it is suggested that since the name 

 " Tzaltzala" has priority, it should be adopted instead of 

 Tsetse. Further references are given to allusions to the 

 " Tsaltsal " in the Bible. In Job xli. 7, the word is used in 

 the sense of a fish-spear, therefore it is considered that its 

 transference to the fly is due to the sharpness of the 

 latter's proboscis. 



* Cf. [I.] 



