Qo Records of the India}i Museum. [Vol. IV, 



proboscis. Front in & narrow, its width in centre being from 

 one-eleventh to one-fifteenth of total width of head ; width of front 

 in 9 at vertex, one- third of total width of head ; proximal portion 

 of proboscis (mentum) a strongly swollen chitinous bulb, distal 

 l)ortion soft and flesh}-, folded back under distal end of bulb when 

 not in use, but w^hen in use extended, its terminal section consisting 

 of a ' tubular extension ' which is protruded from between the 

 labella, and is surrounded at the distal extremity with a circlet 

 of stout chitinous teeth ; venation generally as in Musca domestica." 



Mr. Austen proceeds to give a more detailed generic description 

 and adds the following chaetotaxy : — 



"Thoracic bristles: humeral 3 (in cf sometimes 4); post- 

 humeral I ; notopleural 2 ; praesutural i ; supra-alar i ; intra-alar 

 I ; post-alar 3 ; dorso-central 4 or 5 (the large and conspicuous 

 bristles alone included — 2 or 3 in front of, 2 behind suture) ; inner 

 dorso-central i; scutellar 4 (i praebasal, i basal, i discal, i apical) ; 

 mesopleural, normally 6 (space betw^een uppermost two greater 

 than that between any other two) ; sternopleural i : 2." 



Philcematomyia insignis, Austen, 1909. 

 Loc. cit. ante, 298. 



& 9 . India, Ceylon, Sokotra, Cvprus, vSenegal and Congo 

 Free State. 



Length of 17 & cr 3 — 5-8 mm. ; of 25 9 9 4—62 mm. 



Smoke-grey to isabelline-grey , or yellowish grey ; dorsum of 

 thorax with 4 dark longitudinal stripes, broader and clove-brown 

 or blackish in & , narrower and dark grey or brownish in 9 ; o^ often 

 with an additional broad median stripe, most distinct in front and 

 behind ; dorsum of abdomen with a tranversely elongate dark 

 blotch on ist segment, not reaching hind margin, and a small clove- 

 brown median triangle at base of 2nd and 3rd segments, in some 

 specimens also with a similar but smaller and usually lighter mark 

 at base of 4th segment ; all hair and bristles on head, body and legs 

 black ; palpi ochraceous-buff ; wings hyaline or with a slight ochra- 

 ceous tinge, veins in proximal half buff or ochraceous-buff ; legs 

 black, femora greyish pollinose." Types of cr' and 9 from India 

 in the British Museum. IMr. Austen records it from the East from 

 Calcutta, 23-vii-07, " on draught bullocks, burrowing into the 

 hair"; Mussoorie, ix-06 ; Allahabad, ii-x-05 [Hoi&lett] ; Bentota, 

 Ceylon, i3-vi-9i [Yerbury] ; Daukotuwa, Ceylon. The above data 

 derived from specimens in the British ^luseum. 



^^ .B. — This species (identified by its author in the case of some 

 of the specimens examined) figures in the Indian Museum from 

 Calcutta (where it is common also from :\Iay to September), i5-ii-o8 

 [Amiandale] and 5-iii-05 [Brunetti]; Chittagong, i4-vii-o8 [Lt.-Col. 

 Hall]; Mandalay, i3-iii-o8 ; Kawkareik (North Tenasserim), 

 5-iii-o8, on cattle ; Rangoon, 25-ii-o8 ; and Port Canning (30 miles 

 south of Calcutta), 2i-vii-o7, and Ouilon, S. India, 9-xi-o8 [all 



