rgii.] Miscellanea.' 45 



Philaematomyia insignis, Aust. . . 185 specimens. 



Various species of Muscidae not known 



to suck blood .. .. .. 60 ,, (abt.) 



Hippobosca maculata, lycach {=variegata 



W.) .. .. .... 2 „ 



On cattle in the Surra ward during the day : — 



Stomoxys calcitrans, L. . . • • 3 specimens. 



Stomoxys indica, Pic. {==limhata, Aust.) 46 ,, 

 Stomoxys, sp. (possibly calcitrans, L.) . . 2 ,, 

 Philaematomyia insignis, Aust. . . i specimen. 

 Pristirhynchomyia lineata, Brun. . . 2 specimens. 



On cattle in the open at night : — 



Ctilex ? microannulatus, Theoh., 9 .. 7 specimens. 



Leucomyia gelida, Theoh., $ .. .. 7 ,, 



Mansonioides annulif era, Theoh., ? .. 5 ,^ 



Liperosia exigua,Mei]. .. ..10 ,, 



On cattle in general ward at night : — 



Procladius fuscosignatus , Kief, (not known 



to suck blood) . . . . . . I specimen. 



Hippobosca maculata, Leach {=variegata, 



W.) . . . . . . . . 2 specimens. 



F. H. GraveIvY. 



Mosquito sucked by a midge. — Early in December, 1910, 

 when some of the officers of the Indian Museum visited Port Can- 

 ning in the Sunderbunds, we found a mosquito {Myzomyia rossii) 

 on one side of whose abdomen a small Chironomid fly was seated, 

 evidently imbibing nourishment from it. So tight was its hold 

 that it retained its position when put into spirit, and it was suc- 

 cessfull}^ "cleared" in situ. The proboscis of the Chironomid — 

 which appears to belong to the genus Culicoides — was then seen 

 to be well embedded in the tissues of the mosquito, removing all 

 doubt as to the object of the association of the flies together. 

 The mouth parts of the Culicoides very closely resemble in struc- 

 ture those of the well-known blood-sucking fly Simulium indicum, 

 Beecher, $ ; much more so than they do those of either sex of a 

 species of the closely allied genus Ceratopogon I have examined 

 which probably feeds on vegetable juices. Probably the Culicoides 

 sucks mammalian blood, and was taking it second-hand from the 

 mosquito. 



F. H. Gravely. 



Large egg eaid by a beetle. — Towards the end of last 

 October (1910), the museum collector obtained at Marikuppam 

 near Kolar, Mysore, a living specimen of the Buprestid beetle 

 Sternocera dasypleiira, KoU. This specimen was placed in a 

 cyanide killing-bottle, but before it died it produced an egg, ovate 



