1-22 MAJOR E. E. AUSTEN. 



Hippobosca capensis, v. Olf. 



One <$. 1 ?, Deir el-Belah, 8 miles S.-W. of Gaza, v.1917 ; 1 cJ, near Kefr 

 Insha, about 20 miles E. of Jaffa, 21.V.1918, settled in ear of author while he was 

 travelling in motor car ; 1 ^, Mount of Olives, 6.vii.l918, inside Kaiserin Auguste- 

 Viktoria Stiftung, on author's neck ; one specimen (sex uncertain, abdomen 

 missing), near Abud, 19 miles E. of Jaffa, 25.viii.1918, on author's arm. 



Hippobosca camelina, Leach. 



One ^, near Jericho, 6.iii.l918 {Captain {acting Lt.-Col) W. J. Dale, O.B.E., 

 R.A.V.C); 1 ?, Tel es-Sultan, near Jericho, 21.ih.l918, caught in horse lines, 

 with many specimens of Hippvbosca eqidna, Linn. {Captain W. W. Averill, Auckland 

 Mtd. Rifles) ; 1 c?, 4 ?$, Deir el-Belah, 8 miles S.-W. of Gaza, 2.ix.l917, on 

 camels. 



It may be mentioned that a somewhat misshapen pupa (puparium), deposited 

 prematurely by one of the specimens last referred to, measures 7 mm. in length, 

 while the dimensions of a fully mature, empty puparium of H. camelina, obtained 

 at Biskra, Algeria, 3.iii.l894 {Rev. A. E. Eaton) are— length, 6 mm., greatest 

 breadth, 5-4 mm. 



Owing to the very large number of camels (some 30,000), chiefly from Egypt, 

 serving with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in 1917-18, this species could have 

 been taken practically anywhere within the British lines in Palestine, at any rate 

 wherever there was a detachment of the Imperial Camel Corps or section of the Camel 

 Transport Corps. 



Genus Lynchia, Weyenb. 



Lynchia maura, Big. 



Three SS^ 3 9$, Deir el-Belah, 8 miles S.-W. of Gaza, 23.vih.1917, on carrier- 

 pigeons belonging to Army Signal Service, R.E. 



In the warmer parts of the earth, including southern Europe, this well-known 

 parasite of the domestic pigeon and disseminator of the haematozoon, Haemoproteus 

 columbae, Celh & Sanf., is nowadays to be found on its host practicahy wherever 

 the latter occurs. The Lynchia maura series already in the British Museum (Natural 

 History) includes specimens from the Canary Islands (Orotava, Teneriffe) ; N. Nigeria 

 (Hadefja) ; Nyasaland Protectorate (Kanyenda, Dwangwa R., W. Nyasa) ; Union 

 of South Africa (Cape Town, and Mowbray, Cape Province ; Pretoria and Onder- 

 stepoort, Transvaal) ; Mauritius ; Mesopotamia (Qurnah, R. Tigris) ; India (Deesa, 

 Ambala, Bangalore) ; Selangor (Kwala Lumpur) ; Jamaica (Spanish Town) ; and 

 Brazil (Pard). Knab (Insec. Inscit. Mens., iv, 1916, p. 3), who gives records ranging 

 from Iowa to Southern Brazil (S. Paulo), states that the species " is widely distributed 

 in America," and that recently it " has made its appearance in the Hawaiian Islands." 



Apart from the dissemination of haematozoa, pathogenic or otherwise, by Lynchia 

 maura, these flies, several of which may occur on the same bird, are prejudicial to 

 carrier-pigeons by disturbing their rest. It was found in Palestine that an infested 

 pigeon on returning from a flight, instead of at once seeking its resting place, as these 

 birds usually do, would alight on the floor of the loft and proceed to stamp and 

 peck itself. 



Genus Lipoptena, Nitzsch. 



Lipoptena caprina, sp. n. 



^5. — Length, S (7 specimens), 3-2 to 3-8 mm. (from anterior margin of clypeus 

 to posterior margin of scutellum, 2 to 2-2 mm.), ? (3 specimens), 3-8 to 5mm. (from 

 anterior margin of clypeus to posterior margin of scutellum, 2-4 mm.) ; width of 

 head, $, 1 to just over 1 mm., ?, 1-25 mm. 



