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Figure 3. Index map of Tripolitania showing numbers used for localities in this atlas. Inset maps are 1) Tripoli and sur¬ 
rounding area, 2) Misratah to Sirte, and 3) west central Nalut. See APPENDIX for corresponding coordinates and locality 
names. 
the 20 th century are too imprecise to georeference, giving only the former provincial designations 
of Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, or Fezzan, or perhaps the name of a district or large physical feature. 
Other records were listed simply as being between two points. When these points were relatively 
close to one another, we plotted the midpoint and recorded an uncertainty equal to the distance 
from that point to either terminus noted in the verbatim locality name. When distances were very 
large we made no attempt to plot the occurrence, and the verbatim locality (or the English transla¬ 
tion thereof) is provided in the list of Libyan localities for the relevant species after the shabiyah 
(district) or region (Tripolitania, Fezzan, Cyrenaica) within which it is located, or, if unbeatable, 
or potentially spanning regions, these appear in the list of localities under “Libya.” 
In addition, many early records mention Tripoli or Benghazi, the largest cities and points of 
departure for the inland of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, respectively. Many such records are likely 
