rgio.] E. Brunetti : Bloodsucking MuscidcB. 75 



CoxcC, trochanters and femora black, extreme femora tips, tibiae 

 and tarsi brown ; wings with a httle blackish tinge ; tegulse also ; 

 halteres yellow. 



Long. 6-7 mm. Only the d- . The Camaroons, German East 

 Africa. 



{Description of 9 .■ traiislation.) 



Frons in 9 not quite one- third width of head, with broad, deep 

 velvet-black stripe, and broad (one-half of the width of the middle 

 stripe), whitish grey, slightly glistening side borders. Under .side 

 of head also whitish grey, slightly glistening, ist and 2nd joints of 

 antennae black, 3rd dark brown, gre}^ dusted, arista and pali)i pale 

 brown. 



Thorax above gre}-, with broad black stripes on each side, 

 nearly confluent and nearly reaching the scutellum. 



Thorax black above, with a broad grey middle stripe : shoulders 

 lighth^ slate-grey; pleurse a little less grey; scutellum black, with 

 greyish brown shimmer, distinctly dusted at the tip. 



Abdomen black, rather shining, dark brown dusted on u])per 

 side and shimmering grey at the sides. Viewed from behind, 

 elongated brown side spots become visible on the 2nd and 3rd seg- 

 ments, reaching from the fore border to the middle of each segment ; 

 last segment dark greyish brown dusted, unmarked. 



Coxae, trochanters and femora black ; extreme tips of latter, 

 also the tibiae and tarsi, brown. Wings nearly clear, with slight 

 brownish tinge, tegulae white ; halteres yellowish white. Long. 



Stomoxys sitiens, Rond., 1873. 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Genova, iv, 288, 5 . 



This species, of which apparently the $ is still unknown, has 

 not been definitely recorded from the East, but specimens in the 

 Indian Museum collection, sent to Mr. Austen for examination 

 being returned as possibly sitiens, cau.ses me to include a descrip- 

 tion of the .species in this paper and to add some comments. Ron- 

 dani's original description is as follows : — 



" Long. 5 mm., & . Similis calcitranti europeae, sed minor, et 

 distincta praesertim : Facie et orbitis albissimis, non sub-luteis, 

 et ocuhs in f route sat proximis, orbitis mediocribus vitta nigra 

 angusta sejunctis, et sic oculorum distantia triplo circiter minor 

 latitudine singuli oculi, non ut in mare calcitrantis frons lata fusca, 

 et i)arum angustior singulo oculo. Praeterea in sitientc, abdominis 

 grisei segmenta tria basi paulo canescentia i)raesertini ad latera ; 

 caetera ut in sp. europea. Keren (Abyssinia)." 



{Translnlioii.) 



Near S. calcitrans of Iuu-()i)e, but smaller, and dinVring as 

 follows: Face and eye margins extremely while, not yellowish. 



