11G On a new Indian Species o/Musca. 



or yellowish grey, elongate, relatively narrower and distinctly 

 longer than in M. domestica, arista (except buff band beyond 

 thickened portion) and its hairs clove-brown; all hairs and 

 bristles on head, as also on body and legs, black. Thorax : 

 dark stripes on dorsum narrower in $ than in <$ , in which 

 sex the two dark stripes on each side of the median grey 

 stripe are sometimes more or less confluent; median grey 

 stripe on dorsum usually decidedly broader than each ad- 

 median dark stripe ; scutellum sometimes entirely yellowish 

 grey pollinose, but when viewed from behind often showing 

 a bronze-black apical spot, which may be prolonged into a 

 broad median longitudinal stripe. Abdomen-, bright, shim- 

 mering, yellowish pollinose patches on dorsum not visible on 

 first segment, but on three following segments very con- 

 spicuous when viewed from certain directions, and varying 

 in shape according to the angle from which they are seen ; 

 second and third segments each with a longitudinally elon- 

 gate rectangular pollinose patch on each side of dark median 

 stripe ; on fourth segment these patches coalesce into one ; 

 a transversely elongate, semi-rectangular or partially ovate 

 pollinose patch on each side of second, third, and fourth 

 segment ; latero-ventrally these lateral patches curve round 

 and reach the inner ventral edges of the dorsal scutes ; 

 extreme base of dorsum of first segment, beneath scutellum, 

 clove-brown or black, in <$ connected by a clove-brown 

 mark with median stripe on second segment ; median stripe 

 usually only about half as wide on third as on second seg- 

 ment, and often somewhat expanded on anterior margin of 

 latter; hind border of third segment, a larger or smaller 

 area on each side of this segment, and whole of fourth 

 segment sometimes more or less infuscated in <$ ; dark mark 

 on apex of fourth segment sometimes connected with anterior 

 margin, thus forming a continuation of median stripe; 

 hypopygium of £ blackish, greyish pollinose. Alar squama 

 in S cream-coloured, thoracic squama in ^ cream-buff; 

 squama in ? waxen white. Legs: coxae, posterior surface 

 of front femora, and a streak on under side of middle femora, 

 bright grey pollinose. 



India and Ceylon : types of S and ? and one other ? from 

 Guindy, Saidapet, South India, 1909 (Captain W. S. Palton, 

 I. M.S.); eight additional $ $ from India, precise locality 

 uncertain (presented by the Bombay Natural History Society) ; 

 three £ <$ and one ? from Trincomali, Ceylon, 21. viii., 

 7 and 18. ix., and 9. x. 1890 (Lt.-Col. Yerbury) ; one $ from 

 the vicinity of the 19th milestone on the Kandy Road, Ceylon, 



