﻿DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES — PART I. 367 



This species was originally found at Hombori in the French Sudan in May, 

 1905. Austen* records its occurrence also at Bekwai in Ashanti, and on the 

 Cross River, but expressed the doubt as to his examples being specifically 

 identical with P. duboscqi* 



Though I have not been able to examine specimens of this species I gather 

 from Neveu-Lemaire's description and figures that his P. duboscqi is not only 

 very clearly distinct from any other known species of Phlebotomus, but that it is 

 unique in two respects, namely : the terminal segment of the palpi in the female 

 is shown as being slightly shorter than the sub-terminal one, and the antennae in 

 the same sex are stated to consist of 13 segments as against 16 in all the other 

 known species, so that in view of these marked characteristics there should 

 be no difficulty in recognising P. duboscqi. 



If the armature alone may be taken as a guide to its relationship with the 

 other African species, then it is clearly related to P. papatasii, as is shown by 

 Neveu-Lemaire's illustration (fig. 3), in which the form of the superior clasper 

 appears to be specifically identical. Clearly, therefore, P. duboscqi is, in this 

 respect, quite unlike P. minutus, Rond., or any of the other smaller species of 

 this genus inhabiting Africa. 



* Austen, African Blood Sucking Flies, p. 20 (1909). 



