igio.] E. Brunetti : Bloodsucking MuscidcB. j^ 



especially the 4th, bear a small transverse line at their bases ; the 

 emarginations are blacker ; tegulae brownish ; wings a little clearer." 

 N.B. — Prof. Bezzi (" Mosche ematofaghe, Rend. Istit. lomb,, 

 1907) says that, although admitted as distinct in Van der Wulp's 

 catalogue, it is probably only another synonym of calcitrans, L., 

 an opinion in which I cannot but concur, and, therefore, failing evi- 

 dence to the contrary, I propose to sink the name as synon^^mous 

 with calcitrans. 



Stomoxys plurinotata, Big., 1887. 

 Bull. Zool. Soc. Fr., xii, 393. 



" Long. 5| mm. Antennis nigris ; facie et f route albescentibus, 

 vitta frontali, bifida, nigra ; palpis fulvis ; thorace albido cineras- 

 cente, maculis quatuor latis, elongatis, fuscis, duplicatis, pleuris 

 cinereis ; calyptris albis, halteribus pallide flavidis ; scutello ciner- 

 ascente ; abdomine cinereo, segmentis 1-3 superne univittatis, 

 2° et 3", utrinque, in medio, punctis duobus fuscis, rotundatis, 

 notatis, cum vitta mediana aHquoties junctis; pedibus nigris, 

 tibiis parum fulvo tinctis ; alis hyalinis. Ceylan 3 specimens." 



I append a translation of Bigot's more extended French descrip- 

 tion : — 



Antennae black, tip of 2nd segment pale ; vertex greyish, 

 frons and face dirty white, frontal stripe wide, bifid above ; palpi 

 pale, proboscis black. Thorax grey, with 4 large oblong elongated 

 spots, nearly, contiguous, blackish, each divided by a not very 

 distinct greyish line. Scutellum greyish ; sides of thorax grey ; 

 sometimes the spots mentioned appear as 4 longitudinal stripes 

 interrupted at the suture. Tegulse white, halteres yellowish white. 

 Abdomen grey, with a dorsal black band on segments i to 3, some- 

 times terminating at the base of the 3rd ; the 2nd and 3rd having 

 each two roundish blackish spots, which are often united to the 

 median stripe ; sometimes the ist and 2nd segments hav^e 2 large 

 irregular blacki.sh spots : also the sides of the abdomen are generally 

 marked with elongated spots of irregular shape and of the same 

 shade ; legs black, base of tibiae reddish, wing clear : sex ? 



N .B. — No one seems to have met with this s])ecies since its 

 original description, yet I include it as distinct, although it may 

 quite possibly be another variation of calcitrans. The tyi)e is in 

 Bigot's collection: he does not mention the width of the frons, hut 

 from his doubt as to the sex of his species I am inclined to regard 

 it as probably distinct from calcitrans, of which presumably he 

 would be quite conversant with the resi)c'ctive width of the frons in 

 each sex. 



Stomoxys oblongopunctata, niihi, sp. no\-. 



Assam. Long. 6 mm. 



Differs from calcitrans by the wholly reddisli vellow anteniue 

 and arista, and the pair of elongo-triangulate 1)ro\vn sjxtts on the 

 2nd and 3rd abdominal segments, placed on the hind inargir--. 



