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Field notes: —It is asserted locally that these flies are more 
persistent and feed more viciously than Glossina palpalis. 
Glossina maculata, n. sp. (Newstead) 
(PI. in, figs. 5, 6) 
General appearance- Very dark brown ; posterior surface of head 
cinerous, spotted with black ; thorax dark brown and faintly cinerous 
in places, with elongated transverse black spots ; pleurae, coaxe and 
femora cinerous with conspicuous black spots; first and second 
segments of hind tarsi dark. (The remaining segments wanting.) 
FEMALE. Head with the frontal stripe rich ochreous brown ; 
frontal margins and occellar spot bright yellowish-white to pale 
ochreous; ocelli black ; posterior surface of head cinerous with large 
well-defined irregular black spots. Antennae dull red-brown in front, 
sides with a cinerous surface ; arista dull reddish-brown. Palpi blackish 
above, paler beneath. Bulb of proboscis dark castaneous, shining. 
L'horax dark brown and cinerous with numerous irregular elongated 
black spots placed transversely; anterior angles pale brown. The 
scutellum spotted like the thorax, margin pale brown; pleurae 
cinerous and pale brown, with numerous, irregular, and more or less 
confluent, black spots. Abdomen very dark brown ; the narrow basal 
segment cinerous, with numerous black spots; the broad second 
segment with the large median area, the anterior angle, and broad 
hind margin, cinerous, with black spots; the remaining segments, 
with the exception of the last, with a narrow well-defined median 
stripe, and hind margins narrowly cinerous; lateral margins of 
segments three to five with a cinerous triangular patch ; the hind 
margins with an occasional, more or less obscure, black spot, with the 
exception of the sixth, which has a regular series of ten or eleven on 
the grey cinerous band ; last segment darker than the rest with a 
lateral greyish spot in the centre of which is a small black one. Legs: 
All the coxae cinerous and pale reddish-brown, with numerous more 
or less confluent black spots; anterior and mid femora cinerous 
basally and apically bright red-brown, cinerous area with numerous 
confluent black spots ; hind femora with the basal third and apex pale 
red-brown, the rest faintly cinerous with a few large, faint, dull brown 
blotches; anterior and hind tibiae pale brown, mid tibiae slightly 
darker with, in some lights, faint indications of dark spots ; anterior 
