Volume 5

Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society.

  • Royal Society (Great Britain). Sleeping Sickness Commission
Date:
1903-19
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Credit: Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    9. A PROYlSrONAL LIST OF DIPTERA, Etc., Forwarded from Uganda by Lieut.-Colonel Bruce during the Investigations of the Sleeping Sickness Commission. By ERNEST E. AUSTEN, Zoological Department, British Museum. [Sent in November 9, 1903.] The following hst represents no more than the result of a preliminary examination of the material already received. Since collections of blood- sucking and other Diptera are still being made under the supervision of Dr. Nabarro and Captain Greig, it has been thought advisable to defer the final working-out of the material at present available, with the description of new species, until the conclusion of the investigations of the Sleeping Sickness Commission. Owing to the fact that the bulk of. the material forwarded by Colonel Bruce was obtained by unskilled native collectors, it is unfortunately not in the best of condition, and many specimens will certainly prove to be too much damaged to determine or describe. In view of the increased importance which now attaches to Diptera as transmitters of disease, it cannot be too strongly urged that a competent Dipterist should be included in the personnel of any future expedition 'foi' the investigation of maladies which there may be reason to suppose are disseminated by means of insects belonging to this Order. Family Chironomid^. Ceratopogon sp. nov. [B]*. Mianga river : July 11, 1903. Family Culicid^. Toxd'hynchites brevipalpis, Theob. [B]. Entebbe : in house. Family Simulid^. Simulium sp. nov. [B]. Mbwa-fly, Kyagwe. * The letter [B] in square brackets, following the nnme of a species, indicates that it is a blood-sucking form. b 2
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