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Calliphora vomitoria, I,inn. 



For description see Schlner, Fanii. Aiisfr. I, p. 5S4. 



Matiana ; vSimla. One of the common blowflies. 

 Calliphora erythroccphala, Mg. 



For description see Schiner, Faun. Atistr. I, p 584. 



Simla; Theog. The commonest species of blowfly. 

 Stomoxys calcitrans, ly. 



For description v. Brun., Rec. hid. Miis. IV, p. 68. 



Simla, x-ii. The common stable fly. 



Bdellolarynx sanguinolentus, Aiist. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) III, p. 290. 



Described from specimens from India, Ceylon and Assam, the 

 type (^ being taken by me near Calcutta, now in the British 

 Museum. A good series of both sexes from Pusa, in the Pusa 

 collection, taken from October to March (both inclusive). One 

 headless immature specimen is labelled " reared from eggs laid 

 7-i-i4; hatched 9-i-i4 ; pupated 19-1-14; emerged 29-1-14, C.S.S. 

 Pusa." Also taken ''on buffalo at Annandale, Simla District. 

 X-1911; Simla, X-1911 [Howlett']; Kasauli, 8-viii-i5 {Mitter). 



If Bdellolarynx is really generally distinct from Haematohia 

 the best character is the greater width of the frons, there being 

 always a distinct though narrow space between the eye margins, 

 whereas these latter in Haematobia usually almost touch one 

 another for an appreciable distance, and in some specimens they 

 actually do touch. Austen's description of the legs in sanguino- 

 lentus is rather indefinite, as he does not specially mention the 

 tibiae, which from inference would therefore be included in the 

 general description of the fly as " mouse-grey or slate-grey." The 

 tibiae are usually brownish yellow varying in shade, and in some 

 examples, especially if somewhat immature, they and the femora 

 also are pale brown. Mr. Mitter has described its life-history {Ind. 

 Journ. Med. Res., Ill, p. 583, 1916). 



Haematobia sanguisugcns, Aust. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) III, p. 288. 



Haematobia rtifipes, Brun , Rec. Ind. Mits. IV, p. 65. 



This species was described from males only, and my H. rufipes 

 from females only. Mr. Mitter has called my attention both in 

 his paper and personally to rufipes being synonymous with Aus- 

 ten's species, and an examination of further specimens of both 

 sexes proves this to be the case. In the & the legs are black or 

 nearly so, except for the narrow pale bases of all the tibiae. In 



