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gre}', slighth- bluer than rest of body; the first 3 segments furnished 

 with a straight black dorsal line and a wide black band on posterior 

 margins, that on the 2nd segment covering a larger space than the 

 grey part. 



N.B. — Previous to reading j\Ir. Austen's description of his 

 new species limhata, or seeing specimens of it determined by him, 

 I had identified a number of examples of both sexes in both the 

 Indian ^Museum and m^^ own collection, as certainly indica, Picard. 

 On the ]\Iuseum receiving back from Mr. Austen 2 & & and i 2 

 sent to that dipterologist some time previously, I found that he had 

 referred them to his limhata. 



Apart from minor details, the only serious discrepancy in the 

 descriptions of the two species appears to be in the width of the 

 frons (which, however, I regard as one of the most valuable charac- 

 ters) ; this being quoted by Picard as one-eighth the width of the 

 heed in the a" and by Austen as one-fourth to one-fifth. Now, 

 although the width at the vertex is undoubtedh' wider, the width 

 across the frons about midway between the vertex and the base of the 

 antennae is between \ and ^ in the 2 & & oi the Museum collection, 

 determined by Mr. Austen as paratypes of his limhata ; and ^ 

 in the 2 . All the cr* ct' I have seen have the frons from i to I- in 

 width (and, incidentalh^, " slightly constricted in the middle," 

 as Austen says of limbata, although Picard mentions the frons of his 

 species as being ' ' ver^^ straight "). 



I therefore feel constrained to regard all these specimens ex- 

 amined by me as Picard 's indica, and Mr. Austen's limhata as a 

 probable synonym of it. A noteworth}- feature of similarity is that 

 both authors mention the extra width of the marginal black band 

 on the 2nd segment, and a final coincidence is that both authors 

 describe their species from the same three localities, India, Ce^don 

 and Assam. 



5. indica occurs in the Indian Museum collection from 

 Calcutta, i8-vi-o8 [Annandale'] ; Rajmahal, Bengal, y-vii-og [Annan- 

 dale'] ; Bhogaon, N. Bengal, 3-X-09 [Paiva'] ; Allahabad, i5-viii-09 

 [Lord] ; Maddathorai, Travancore State, i6-xi-o8 [Annandale] ; 

 Victoria Gardens, Colombo, 26-iv-o8 [Paiva] ; Rangoon, 24 — 26-ii-o8 

 [Annandale] ; Singapore, i-viii-o6 [Brtmetti]. In my collection 

 I have it from Calcutta, 24-vii and i4-viii-04, and from Rangoon, 

 i8-viii-o6, taken by myself. 



Stomoxys limbata, i\ust., 1909. 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), iii, 292. 

 d' 2 . India, Ceylon, Assam. 



<f . " Smoke-grey : face and sides of front bright 3^ellowish- 

 silver}', front narrow ; dorsum of thorax with usual clove-brown 

 longitudinal stripes, admedian stripes narrow and wide apart ; 

 dorsum of abdomen with deep clove-brown or blackish transverse 

 band on hind border of each of first three segments ; wings with a 



