igio.J E. Brunetti : Blood-sucking Muscidce. 89 



y.B. — Dr. Annandale has noticed that this species when at 

 rest, sits with its wings spread out horizontally. 



Lyperosia flavohirta, milii, sp. no v. 



& 9 . Lower Burma. Long. 2^-3 mm. 



This species is very near exigua, the differences all being minor 

 ones, yet I believe, b}' taking them in the aggregate, a specific 

 separation for this form is warranted. 



1. The lighter coloured parts of the head and thorax are more 

 whitish than in exigua. 



2. The small bristly hairs covering the thorax, scutellum and 

 abdomen are distinctly more yellow than brow-nish yellow. 



3. The dorsal stripe on the abdomen is generally continuous 

 almost to the tip, and is more uniformly wide ; whereas in exigua 

 it often terminates on the posterior border of the 2nd segment, 

 sometimes appearing on the ist segment only, and often (when 

 nearly complete in length) takes the form of elongated triangles, 

 bases np])ermost. 



4. The legs are paler yellow and the whole body is paler. 

 Described from 6 cf & and 2 9 9 taken by Dr. Annandale 



on cattle at Kawkareik, Lower Burma, i-iii-08. 



N .B. — Dr. Annandale noticed this species in great abundance 

 on cattle in the interior of the Amherst District in Tenasserim, 

 March 1909. He remarked that when at rest it stood higher on its 

 legs than other Indian species of the genus, thus approximating to 

 the appearance of a Dolichopodid. 



Lyperosia irritans, L. 



As this palaearctic species may quite possibly be found in 

 Northern India, a brief description is appended, drawn up from 

 the only two specimens before me, 2 a' a' in my own collection, 

 from Roumania. 



Dark yellowish grey, 3^ to 4 mm. long with 4 not very well- 

 defined thoracic blackish stripes, of which the middle pair attain 

 the anterior margin. Abdomen with blackish dorsal stripe on 2nd 

 segment. Palpi distinctly s])atulate at tip, flattened, nearly as 

 long as the shining black proboscis. Frontal space \ width of head, 

 mainly occupied by whitish eye margins, but leaving a very narrow 

 black stripe. Legs black, knees pale, hind femora with a single 

 hair below, just beyond middle, and another at tip ; hind tibiie 

 with some comparativeh' long hairs on inner sides. Wing clear, 

 1st posterior cell very narrowly open ; outer cross- vein long, nearly 

 straight. 



PHILiEMATOMYIA, Aust., 1009. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), iii. 295. 



" Greyish flies, not unlike Musca domesiica, Linn., in general 

 appearance, but distinguishable at once, owing to the remarkal)le 



