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Hippobosca maculata Macquart, 1835, “Hist. Nat. Ins. 
Dipt.,” II, p. 638 (no sex given; Cape of Good Hope). 
Not H. maculata Leach. 
Hippobosca wahlenbergiana Jaennicke, 1867, Abh. Senck- 
enberg. Naturf. Ges., VI, p. 406, PI. XLIV, fig. 13 
( $ ; Caffraria). 
Hippobosca marginata “Macquart” van der Wulp, 1894, 
Tijdschr. v. Entom., XXXVII, Versl., p. Ixvi (as a 
synonym of H. rufipes v. Olfers). 
Hippobosca Camelopardalis Roubaud, 1925, Bull. Soc. Path. 
Exot., Paris, XVIII, p. 466, fig. 1 ( $ ; off giraffe; be- 
tween Tabora and Tibu, Tanganyika Territory). 
Specimens Examined. — Belgian Congo: Boma, off a 
mule (J. Rodhain) ; Uele District (J. Rodhain) ; Matadi 
(J. Ghesquiere) ; Elisabethville, off mules imported from 
South Africa, June 26, 1912 (J. Bequaert) ; Biano Plateau, 
July 11, 1923 (Nockermans) ; Kapiri, July, 1912 (Leplae). 
Tanganyika Territory: 25 miles east of Ikoma, off eland, 
Taurotragus oryx patter sonianus Lydekker (J. P. Chapin). 
Southwest Africa: Walfish Bay (Michael Bequaert); 
Aroab (W. S. Brooks) ; Windhoek. Cape Province : Wind- 
sorton, off cattle (H. Brauns) ; Kimberley (C. P. Louns- 
bury). Portuguese East Africa: Lourenzo Marques (C. W. 
Howard). Orange Free State: Jacobsdal (M. C. Mossol). 
Transvaal: Pretoria (R. Van Saceghem). 
Distribution. — This species was originally a South Afri- 
can insect, being now very common in the Cape Province, 
Basutoland, Southwest Africa, Orange Free State, Trans- 
vaal, Bechuanaland, and Natal. It is also found in Zululand 
and Southern Rhodesia. Its extension northward into 
Tanganyika Territory and the Belgian Congo may have 
been partly due to man. Wellman (1908, Bull. Soc. Ent. 
France, p. 77) has reported it from Benguella (Bihe and 
Chiyaka), and Austen (1909) from Angola (Bembe Mines, 
7° 22' S.). Walker (1849, “List Dipt. Brit. Mus.,” IV, 
p. 1141) has listed it from the Congo. In recent years it 
seems to be spreading rapidly beyond its original area. 
