and the Genus Pycnosoma. 303 



? Chnixnmfia huccalin, Robinoaii-Desvoidv, Kssai sur le^ Myoiliiirea 



(1M.-50), p. 418. 

 J'l/cuosomn chloropi/f/a, Austi'ii, Journal of tlio Ii 'Val Aiinv Melical 



Corps, June li»dt, p. 14, ^.l. ii. Hj,'. T). 

 Paracompsomyia Ihimihi, Aclani-<, Kansas University Sciunco HulL'tin, 



vol. iii. no. (3 (Oct. lOOo), p. 201. 



'I'liis species, the type of wliich was from the Cape of (food 

 Hope, seems to be essentially a South-AtVicaii form, but, iu 

 jiihlition to a series of examples from Capo Colony, the 

 British Museum possesses two specimens from the lOaat; 

 Africa Protcctorato (C. *S'. Befton), The types of Adams'.-} 

 description arc stated to be from Kliodesia. 



Other African species in the British Museum collection 

 belonging to the genus Pi/cnosoma are Musca mecjacephala^ 

 Fabr. (Ent. Syst. iv. p. 317), Musca putoria, Wied. (Auss. 

 Z\v. In.", ii. ]). -AO^), ajid Musca elnra, \Valk. (List Dipt. Ins. 

 in C..1I. l^rit. Mus. iv. (18-49) p. 870). Of Pycnosoma 

 jiufon'uiiij AVied., we have a series of S[)ecimens from Sierra 

 Leone (Aug. 1899, E. E. Austen ; and Au^. 1904, Major F. 

 Smith, ILA.M.C.) ; Lagos {Dr. IL Strachan); Old Calabar, 

 Nigeria, May 1900 {Dr. If. E. Annett) ; and Lutete, Congo 

 Free State, Nov. 12, 1903 {Drs. Button, Todd, and Christy). 

 Of P. ehira, Walk., we have specimens from the " Interior 

 of S. Africa" (Lord Derhy) ; " S. Africa" (Dr. A. Smith.) ; 

 Lcopoldville, Congo Free State, Dec. 10, IQ0'.\ {Drs. Dutton, 

 Todd, and Christy) ; and Kafu River, near Mruli, Uganda, 

 Sept. 1903 (7'. Grant). 



L u cilia fascia ta, Macq. (Dipt. Exot. ii. 3, p. 141, 1843), 

 from the C;ipe of Good Hope, and Dexia hypsa, Walk. (List 

 Dij.t. Li.s. in Coll. Brit. Mus. iv. (1849) p. 8(J6), locality 

 nnknown, al.so belong to the genus Pycnosoma, as doubtless 

 do other species described by Wiedemann and Macquart 

 under Musca and Lucilia respectively. In addition to the 

 species mentioned above, Adams {loc. cit. p. 202) also 

 describes from Rhodesia Paracompsomy ia s/dindida (sic) and 

 P. verticalis ; in all }»robal)ility these will prove to be identical 

 with species u[' Pycncsoma previously described by Wiedemann 

 or Macquart unikr the genera mentioned. 



The Oiientiil species of Pycnosoma in tlie British Museum 

 collection have yet to be studied ; but Lucilia Jiaviaps, Macq. 

 (Dipt. Exot. ii. 3, p. 145), of which we possess three spcci- 

 niens from Lidia, must be transferred to this genus, as also 

 Mut^ca remuria. Walk. {op. cit. iv. p. 871), from China ; of 

 the latter species the Museum has recently received two 

 .specimens from Tinghai, Hong Kong, "sea-level," June 30, 

 1899 (C. Ford). 



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