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GENUS GLOSSINA (TSETSE FLIES 
Native Names. — Only occasionally did the names given below 
accurately specify the insects for which they were used For example, 
the word designating “ tsetse fly " meant often only " a fly of medium 
size which bites,’ and therefore the same term was sometimes 
employed without distinction for Gl 
and even Slomoxys. In the same way the words given for “floor 
maggot” sometimes signified almost any maggot or even “a crawling 
thmg which bites.” Glossina pa!pal is is by far the commonest tsetse 
in the Congo. The names given for “ tsetse fly " were obtained free 
natives by showing specimens of it. 
tribe T s h !Ja? US !f ng:Ua8e5 are men tioned in the order in which the 
Piaces off “TV 6 " VisilCd '. . .. . - Pven 
mentioned. 6 r ° Ute ° ** ex P ed,t,on tllc name of the informant is 
nsa g T e h o 7 r e Co 0 n *** “ d — Relied according to the 
are Wri7 n L a ccTd T P“b'ications. The nantes of ^rashes 
for the of iztT:z°r d by ,hc Royal 
District of the Lower Congo. 
Bacongo language. 
Tsetse fly 
Maggot 
Maggot fly 
1 SHUMBlRi. 
Bateke language 
f setse 
mavekwa ( vekua) 
ul ‘ (at Matadi) ; n'tungwa (at Watfcen, 
Is a 6 en eral name for all maggots) 
kuluyanzi 
j Vibi (S) 
[beyibi (p) 
Bobangi language 
e y'yi (S) 
Note these vvn ^ • "' ' 09 
fUrther d * st ' n S u ished ^abanus or tsetse : they ate 
Maggot . Sma "- ° r /"-= large. 
UezeufP) ' b "“ u ( S ) 
•nabinzn (P) 
