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VI. NATIVE NAMES FOR INSECTS AND DISEASES 
CARRIED BY THEM. 
The study of the native names of blood-sucking insects is fraught with many 
difficulties, as, more often than not, one name is used to include insects of 
very different groups, while again in some places different species have special 
names and these names do not always coincide. 
So far as I was able to gather, the Hausa names are as follows :— 
Mosquito = Soro. 
Tsetse = Barabaji. 
Small Tabanids (sometimes also Tsetse) = Gudanchiza (7.e. biting flies). 
In Igara :— 
Mosquito = Imu. 
Any biting fly = Unu. 
Large Tabanids = Unuefa (efa = bush cow). 
According to Dr. J. M. Dalziel, the native names in the Sokoto Province, 
where he has spent a considerable time, are :— 
“ Glossina spp., Tsande or Cheda (Zamfara). 
Tabanus spp., Bobua or Kujen-giwa (generally the larger species such as 
T. biguttatus, but commonly used for any Tabanus). 
Haematopota spp. (and Chrysops), recognised by the natives by their 
dappled wings, Kujen bauna or Sambaliko (Zamfara). 
N.B.—The name Barabaji is correctly used only for Hippobosca, but is 
sometimes applied to practically every different species of biting fly, even 
the tiny Lyperosia minuta.” 
Just as in the Gambia,* most of the tribes in Northern Nigeria distinguish 
the lethargic stage of trypanosomiasis from the earlier stage, which is 
characterised by the presence of “bumps in the neck” or enlarged cervical 
glands, thus :— 
Tribe. “ Bumps.” Sleeping Sickness. 
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Hausa... as .-. | Chiwon wia (sick neck)... | Chiwon berichi. 
Nupe ... F- .-- | Patugi (patu = neck) ... | Baia elle. 
Tkoio ... es .-- | Atogbe © ... aa ..- | Uku wara. 
Igara ... aA .-. | Atalahu ... =e .-- | Oga ulu. 
In the above names for sleeping sickness the first word in every case signifies 
sick,” and the second word “sleep.” 
Trypanosomiasis in horses is known at Umaisha by the name of Chiwon-aguna 
which is literally “ sick-swelling.” 
VII—THE GENUS GLOSSINA. 
Five species of this genus have been found in Northern Nigeria, namely. G. 
palpalis, G. tachinoides, G. lonaipalpis, G. fuscat and one other which for the 
* Bull. Ent. Res. LI, pt. 3, p. 219. 
+ G. fusca has been recorded from Ife and between Poinia and Allu in Kabba Province, but 
none of these places have I been able to locate. 
