igio.] E. Brunetti : Blood-sucking MuscidcB. 79 



brownish tinge ; femora dark clove-brown, their extreme tips and 

 base of hind tibiae ochraceous-buff, front and middle tibiae and 

 tarsi mummy-brown, hind tarsi and hind tibiae except base sepia- 

 coloured.' ' 



$ . " Apart from usual sexual differences, agreeing essentially 

 with cf , except that dark markings on dorsum of thorax and abdo- 

 men are paler (olive-brown instead of clove-brown or blackish), 

 that the wings although brownish are less noticeably infuscated, 

 that the squamae are paler (whitish or yellowish white), and that 

 the front and middle tibiae are also brighter in hue." Type in 

 British Museum from Sylhet, ii-ii-05 [Lt.-Col. Hall] ; also a 

 specimen from Peradeniya, Ce3'lon, 22-V-92 [Yerbury]. 



' ' S. limbata is closely allied to 5. nigra, ]Mcq. , but is distinguished 

 b}- the front in the & being somewhat narrower, with the frontal 

 stripe slightly constricted in the middle, instead of having its sides 

 parallel ; and in the 2 by the front and middle tibicC being mainly 

 ochraceous instead of for the most part clove-brown or blackish.' ' 



The length of this species is from a little under 5 mm. 

 to ^^ mm. ; width of head cf i'6 to 2 mm., 9 i"8 to 2 mm. ; width 

 of front at vertex (f , 0*4 mm., 9 just over 05 mm. 



N.B. — Specimens seen by Mr. Austen and identified by him as 

 his limbata are in the Indian Museum collection from Port Canning, 

 Lower Bengal, 2i-vii-07 {Annandale] ; Calcutta, 2o-viii-07; and 

 Sylhet, 3i-i-05 [Lt.-Col. Hall] ; Mr. Austen also refers to this 

 species a 9 from Peradeni^^a, Ceylon, 22-V-92 [Lt.-Col. Yerbury]. 



N.B. — As noted under 5. indica, Pic, I am strongly inclined 

 to regard limbata as synon^-mous with that species. 



Stomoxys bengalensis, Pic. 



{Tra)islalion.) 



cf . Interocular space one-fifth width of head. Frons and 

 face with whitish pubescence, lightly gilded. Antennie black, arista 

 testaceous, tip black ; palpi pale yellow. 



Thorax grey, with two parallel l)lack stripes on each side of a 

 very indistinct median line. Scutellum rather dark grey. Wings 

 a little smoky, veins blackish brown ; tegula? and halteres dark 

 brown. Legs black, base of tibite pale brown. Abdomen light 

 slaty brown, with black dorsal line on first three segments ; each 

 segment with a narrow basal transverse band, and a wide one on 

 posterior margin, especially that on the 2nd segment ; 4th segment 

 wholly grey (in fresh specimens), long, yl mm. 9 unknown. 

 Sent by Col. Raymond from Calcutta. 



N.B.—S. bengalensis should, by the description, be a good 

 species, and I had noted three cf cf in the Indian Museum collection 

 (from Calcutta) as being probably this s])ecies. They were, however, 

 returned after examination by Mr. Austen as calcitrans, and closer 

 study both of them and subsetjuently acquired specimens lead me 

 to suppose thev fall within the range of the commoner species. 



