. Flies in relation to disease: bloodsucking flies. Flies; Flies as carriers of disease; Diptera. 276 GLOSSINA MORSITANS , [CH. REFERENCES. Austen, E. (1911). Handbook of the Tsetse-Flics, p. 63. Bouet and Roubaud (1910). Ann. Inst. Pasteur, vol. xxiv. p. 658 ; Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. vol. iii. pp. 599, 72^- Kinghorn, A. (1911). Cf. S. S. Bulletin, vol. ill. p. Roubaud, E. (1911). Compt. Rend. Acad. Set. vol. clii. p. 406. Simpson, J. J~. (1912). Bull. Entoin. Research, vol. in. p. 137. Glossina morsitans Westwood, 1850. Synonym. Glossina siibmorsitans Newstead, 1911. Length ^ 7-2 to
. Flies in relation to disease: bloodsucking flies. Flies; Flies as carriers of disease; Diptera. 276 GLOSSINA MORSITANS , [CH. REFERENCES. Austen, E. (1911). Handbook of the Tsetse-Flics, p. 63. Bouet and Roubaud (1910). Ann. Inst. Pasteur, vol. xxiv. p. 658 ; Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. vol. iii. pp. 599, 72^- Kinghorn, A. (1911). Cf. S. S. Bulletin, vol. ill. p. Roubaud, E. (1911). Compt. Rend. Acad. Set. vol. clii. p. 406. Simpson, J. J~. (1912). Bull. Entoin. Research, vol. in. p. 137. Glossina morsitans Westwood, 1850. Synonym. Glossina siibmorsitans Newstead, 1911. Length ^ 7-2 to 9 mm., ? S-6 to 9-6 mm.; width of head, J 2-4 to 2-75 mm., ? 2-5 to 3 mm. ; width of front at vertex, i 0-6 mm., ? 0-8 to I mm., length of wing, s 7-6 to 8-2 mm., ? 8-2 to 9-5 m™- "Dorsum of thorax Ught grey, ohvaceous-grey, or smoke-grey in,?, drab-grey in ? , the thoracic markings in both sexes incompletely developed, and reduced to brownish or mouse-grey longitudinal streaks ; dorsum of abdomen buff to ochraceous-bufi (in pmned specimens sometimes mouse-grey nr olivaceous owing to post mortem changes), with a larger or smaller clove- brown blotch (sometimes indistinct or almost wanting) near each basal angle. Fig. 72. Glossina moysitans. Dorsal view of female. ( x 4.) of the second segment, and the third to the sixth segments inclusive each with a very conspicuous clove-brown transverse band, interrupted in the median line, not reaching the lateral margins, and not extending beyond the basal three-fourths of the segment, if so far ; legs buff, last two joints of hind tarsi clove-brown or black, last two joints of front tarsi and penultimate joint of middle tarsi conspicuously tipped with clove-brown or dark brown, last joint of middle tarsi entirely dark brown above in typical race, otherwise distal half or third of last joint of middle tarsi alone dark brown or clove-brown, re- mainder of joint merely brownish or even entirely ; (Austen.). Please note that
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