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monoceros Roubaud & Grenier, 1943, Bull. Soc. Path. exot. 36 : 289 (Simulium). 

 Syntypes $, $ pupae, Guinea : IP, Paris. 



morotoensis McCrae & Prentice, 1965, Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 34 : 53 (Para- 

 cnephia). Holotype <$, Uganda : BMNH, London. 



muspratti Freeman & de Meillon, 1953, Sim. Ethiop. Reg. : 30 (Cnephia). Holo- 

 type <$, South Africa (Cape Province) : SAIMR, Johannesburg. 



narcaeus de Meillon, 1950, Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 19 : 16 {Simulium). Holo- 

 type (J, South Africa (Natal) : SAIMR, Johannesburg. 



natalensis de Meillon, 1950, Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 19 : 14 (Simulium). 

 Holotype <$, South Africa (Natal) : SAIMR, Johannesburg. 



neavei Roubaud, 1915, Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. 1915 : 293 (Simulium). LECTOTYPE 

 $ [by present designation], Uganda : BMNH, London. 



Roubaud described neavei from thirteen female specimens collected by Neave 

 and stated to be in the British Museum collection. Six of these female syntypes 

 now exist in the collection of BMNH, London, and one with data ' Uganda Prot. 

 Western Ankole. 4500-5000 ft. 10-14, Oct. 1911. S. A. Neave ' has been 

 labelled and is here designated as lectotype. 



neireti Roubaud, 1905, Bull. Mus. natn. Hist, nat., Paris 11 : 425 (Simulium). 

 Syntypes $, Malagasy Republic (Madagascar) : MNHN, Paris. 



ngabogei Fain, 1950, Revue Zool. Bot. afr. 43 : 108 (Simulium). Syntypes <$, $, 

 pupae, Rwanda : MRAC, Tervuren. 



nigritarsis Coquillett, 1902, Proc. U.S. natn. Mtis. 24 : 27 (Simulium). Holotype 

 $, South Africa (Cape Province) : USNM, Washington. 



nili Gibbins, 1934, Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 82 : 74 (Simulium). Holotype $, 

 Uganda : BMNH, London. 



nyasalandicum de Meillon, 1930, Bull. ent. Res. 21 : 190 (Simulium). LECTO- 

 TYPE $ [by present designation], Malawi : BMNH, London. 



De Meillon (loc. cit.) described nyasalandicum from five female syntypes, all of 

 which are in BMNH, London ; one specimen has been labelled and is here desig- 

 nated as lectotype. Data of the lectotype and paralectotypes are : ' Nyasaland 

 Protectorate : Mt. Mlanje. 20.1.1914. S. A. Neave '. The lectotype bears, in 

 addition, a circular red-bordered ' Type ' label with the inscription ' Simulium 

 nyasalandicum Roubaud ' in Austen's writing : as de Meillon noted in the 

 original description, the name was not published by Roubaud. 



obscurum Gibbins, 1937, Bull, ent. Res. 28 : 289 (Simulium). Holotype J, 

 Uganda : BMNH, London. 



Name preoccupied in Simulium by obscurum Enderlein, 1924, see replacement 

 name Simulium cavum Gibbins, 1938 : holotype of obscurum Gibbins labelled as 

 cavum. 



occidentale Freeman & de Meillon, 1953, Sim. Ethiop. Reg. : 56 (Simulium, as 

 form of alcocki Pomeroy, 1922). Replacement name for Simulium alcocki var. 

 violaceum Pomeroy, 1922, preoccupied by Simulium violaceum Enderlein, 1922. 

 Lectotype <$, Nigeria : BMNH, London. (For designation see under violaceum 

 Pomeroy) . 



