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shaped at tip, taw 113'. Fore femora with the brown colour nearly 

 reaching the tip, under side with a row of longer bristles, in addition 

 to the normal hairs. Middle femora above, towards the tips, 

 with some small ones, hind femora with rather larger, distinct 

 bristles, below with some preapical ones. Hind tibiae with two 

 bristles near the middle. Hind metatarsus with some stronger 

 bristles below. Wing as in calcitrans ; ist longitudinal vein 

 (subcosta) ends exactly above the small cross- vein ; 2nd (radius) 

 rather nearer the wing tip than in calcitrans. 



N.B. — Being described from a single damaged specimen, 

 the specific identit}^ of this species must be admitted with caution ; 

 I therefore place it last of all. 



Description of STYGEROMYIA, Aust., 1907 (non-Oriental). 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xix, 445. 



"In some respects intermediate between Stomoxys, Geoff., 

 HcEmatohia, Rob. Desv., and Lypcrosia, Rond. {sensu Bezzi). 

 In general appearance and form of body similar to Stomoxys, but 

 in shape of proboscis and palpi resembling Hcematobia, though with 

 arista feathered only on upper side, as in Stomoxys and Lyperosia. 

 Head somewhat flattened from front to rear, with basi-occipital 

 region only slightly swollen ; proboscis short, stout and shining, 

 of uniform thickness throughout, not tapering to the tip, chitin- 

 ous, but terminated by a pair of small flesh}- labella ; palpi equal 

 to proboscis in length, large, clavate towards the tips, curving up- 

 wards, and with stout bristles on the outer side at the distal 

 extremity. 



" Bristles of thorax : Humeral 3 ; post-humeral i ; notopleural 

 2 ; prsesutural i ; supra-alar i ; intra-alar i ; post-alar 2 ; dorso- 

 central 6 (i in front of and 5 behind the suture) ; inner dorso-cen- 

 tral i; scutellar 4 (i prsebasal, i basal, i discal, i apical); meso- 

 pleural 9 or 10, wider apart than in Stomoxys or Hccmatohia ; sterno- 

 pleural i (posterior, as in Stomoxys, instead of i : i, as in Hcema- 

 tohia). 



'' Wings with ist posterior cell narrowly open at the tip, the 

 width of the opening being precisely that seen in the same cell in 

 the wing of Miisca corvina, Fab., and' less than half of that exhibited 

 by the ist posterior cell in the case of Stomoxys calcitrans, L. : apical 

 portion of 4th vein beyond the bend perfectly straight, not bent in- 

 wards at the extremity, as in Stomoxys and Hcematohia. Typical 

 species, Stygeromyia maculosa, sp. nov." 



A^S.— This is not an Oriental genus, being described from 

 Africa, but since, owing to the traffic in cattle betw^een one con- 

 tinent and another, it may easily be imported, I have thought it 

 best to include at least the generic description to facilitate identi- 

 fication should it occur in the East. 



