December, '13] BRUES: STOMOXYS DISTRIBUTION 475 



ciated with cattle in the vicinity of Calcutta. He states that *S'. cal- 

 citrans together ^^ith S. indica Pic. (limbata Austen) occurred com- 

 monly on cattle during the day, but not at night, while Philamatomyia 

 insignis Austen was the most common blood-sucking Muscid on these 

 animals. 



Ceylon. — Brunetti ^ has mentioned the occurrence of Stunioxys cal- 

 citrans at Colombo, Ceylon, and it was recorded from Ceylon also by 

 Schiner ^ at a much earlier date. 



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

 in the British Museum. 



China. — Howard ^ refers to the occurrence of Stomoxys cahitrans in 

 China, but gives no further data as to its distribution and relative 

 abundance in that country. 



Hong Kong. — It is stated in the Report of the Colonial Veterinary 

 Surgeon at Hong Kong for 1909, according to an abstract in the 

 Experiment Station Record * that Stomoxys calcitrans and the horn 

 fly are the two most common flies in cattle sheds, both causing cattle 

 a great deal of annoyance. 



Many years before Schiner ^ recorded the species from Hong Kong. 



Singapore. — Brunetti ^ records Stomoxys calcitrans from Singapore. 



Japan. — Stomoxys calcitrans is evidently a common insect in Japan, 

 as Coquillett "^ found ten specimens in a not very extensive collec- 

 tion of Diptera from Japan. No specific localities are cited in this 

 paper. 



Australia 



Dr. W. W. Froggatt, the government entomologist to New South 

 Wales, has kindly written in regard to the occurrence of Stomoxys 

 calcitrans in Australia that it "has a wide range over Australia, 

 though I am not quite sure how far north it ranges." 



As early as 1868 it was evidently present at Sydney, N. S. W., as 

 Schiner records it from there in his Diptera of the Novara Reise 

 (p. 311), and the British Museum contains specimens from New South 

 Wales according to Austen (loc. cit.). 



Queensland. — Austen records specimens from Queensland in the 

 British Museum (loc. cit.). 



1 Rec. Indian Mus., Vol. 4, p. 72 (1910). 

 = Novara Reise, p. 311 (1868). 



5 The House Fly— Disease Carrier, p. 243 (1911). 

 4 Vol. 22, p. 682 (1910). 



6 Novara Reise, p. 311 (1868). 



• Rec. Indian Mus., Vol. 4, p. 72 (1910). 



' Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XXI, p. 333 (1898). 



