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Mmiritius 



According to Bezzi ^ the species occurs in this island as he gives the 

 reference "Isola di Francia" without fiiHher remarks. 



Asia 



Seychelles Islands. — Recorded by Austen (loc. cit.) from specimens 

 in the British Museum. 



Persia. — Beoker and Stein- record the occurrence of Stomoxys 

 calcitrans in the Province of Baluchistan, Persia. 



Palestine. — Recorded by Austen (loc. cit.) on the basis of specimens 

 in the British Museum. 



India. — F. W. Howlett, the Imperial Pathological Entomologist of 

 the Agricultural Research Institute at Pusa in Bengal, India, has 

 been so kind as to furnish the notes which follow, concerning the 

 occurrence of the stable fly in India. 



"Sto77ioxys calcitrans. may, I think, be said to be common all over 

 India. I have myself taken it at the following places: Pusa, Calcutta, 

 Lebong (near Darjeeling and about 4,500 feet elevation), Allahabad, 

 Simla (7,000 feet), near Mussoorie (at about 5,000 feet), Lahore, 

 Bombay, Parel and Bassein (both near Bombay), Poona, Coonoor 

 (near Ootacamund, a hill-station in the Nilgiri Hills), Coimbatore 

 (at the foot of the same hills), and Madras. 



"We have here the following genera of blood-sucking Muscidse 

 occurring fairly commonly: Stomoxys, Lyperosia, Philcematomyia and 

 Hccmatohia. 



"Of these all save Stomoxys breed habitually in cowdung, but this 

 rarely if ever breeds there but chooses fermenting vegetable stuff such 

 as heaps of fodder or decaying grass. 



Save in certain districts such as Assam (I have not been there but 

 have heard that they bite people freely in some parts), I should say 

 the risk of infection from their bite was less here than in Enf^land, 

 for though the flies are often very common they seem to bite much 

 less often than, for instance, at my home in Norfolk, England. Why 

 this should be I have no idea, but it is certainly true for Pusa and 

 several other districts where the flies are quite common. Possibly the 

 humidity-conditions may have something to do with it. It is, of 

 course, for most of the year comparatively or very dry over a large 

 part of India." 



Gravely ^ gives some interesting facts concerning some flies asso- 



1 Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. XXXIX, p. 92 (1907). 



2 Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersburg, Vol. 17, p. 630 (1913). 

 » Rec. Indian Mus., Vol. 6, pp. 44-5 (1911). 



