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  S. 
  A. 
  NEAVE. 
  — 
  THE 
  TABANIDAE 
  OF 
  SOUTHERN 
  NYASALAND. 
  

  

  captured 
  near 
  Lake 
  Chilwa 
  in 
  January 
  1914, 
  in 
  circumstances 
  which 
  render 
  it 
  

   extremely 
  probable 
  that 
  they 
  had 
  bred 
  in 
  mud 
  some 
  considerable 
  distance 
  from 
  water, 
  

   which 
  had 
  been 
  hard 
  and 
  dry 
  for 
  some 
  portion 
  at 
  any 
  rate 
  of 
  the 
  dry 
  season. 
  I 
  am 
  

   inclined 
  to 
  think 
  that 
  in 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  these 
  and 
  other 
  mid-season 
  species, 
  such 
  as 
  

   T. 
  claritibialis, 
  Bic., 
  and 
  T. 
  sandersoni, 
  Aust., 
  that 
  the 
  larvae 
  hibernate 
  fully 
  fed 
  

   at 
  the 
  beginning 
  of 
  the 
  dry 
  season 
  and 
  only 
  pupate 
  when 
  the 
  next 
  season's 
  rains 
  

   release 
  them 
  from 
  the 
  hard 
  ground. 
  

  

  