igio.J E. Brunetti : Blood-sucking Muscidce. 8i 



Type ill British ^Museum, from iMussoorie, N. W. India, x-o6 

 [Howlett]. 



" This is a very distinct species, which, while resembhng the 

 foregoing {pus ill a) in size, is at once distinguishable by the 

 dusky coloration of the bod}' and legs, by the sides of the front 

 being scarce!}- visible except anteriorly, and by the remarkable 

 row of hairs on the inside of the first joint of the front tarsus. 

 Owing to the latter character 5. pulla cf ])resents some slight ap- 

 proximation to the cf of the African S. omega, Neust., in which, 

 however, the row of hairs on the inside of the front tarsus extends 

 to the end of the second joint, while the hairs themselves are much 

 longer and conspicuously curled." 



Stomoxys, sp. 



A single o^ in the Indian ^Museum, apparently immature, 

 certainly belongs to a distinct species from all others given in this 

 paper. It has a frons which narrows rapidly from the \-ertex 

 (where it is about ^ the width of the head) downwards, being 

 only between \ and | at a short distance above the antennae, where 

 it widens as usual. The outer side of the middle tibiae are wholly 

 moderately light brown, and the abdomen is apparently unmarked, 

 but being in a somewhat crumpled state it is impossible to describe 

 it more precisely. In other respects it resembles a slightly under- 

 sized calcitrans. From Calcutta, i8-vii-07. 



Stomoxys dacnusa, Speis., 1908. 

 Zool. Anz., xxxiii, 666. 



" Orichalceo griseo, vittis duabus brunneoviolaceis, pedibus 

 luteis, coxis atque femoribus prseter ultimam tertiam ])artem 

 brunneo piceis, ahs basi et nervatura validiora luteis squamis lutes- 

 centibus. Annam." 



9 . Long. Corp. 5-5 mm. ; alarum 5 •5 mm. 



Further notes from his more lengthy description in German 

 may be added as follows : — 



Yellowish grey, with a brassy tinge. From the anterior border 

 of the thoracic dorsum, a moderately broad brownish l)lack, with a 

 violet tinge, stripe towards each side. 



Unfortunately the hinder part of the thorax, the pleuric, chest, 

 and first segments of the abdomen cannot be correctly described, 

 owing to the blood which has exuded over them. Ti]) of scutellum 

 and of abdomen uniformly grey. Legs pale brownish yellow ; only 

 the coxae, and basal two-thirds of the femora, blackish brown or 

 nearly black. 



Head blackish brown, only the base of the antenna' i)aler, 

 yellowish brown, the antennae, with the arista, tawny brown. 



Frons, almost exactly one-third width of head at vertex, 

 widening in front. Cluctotaxy normal. Palpi very Httle spindle- 



