Cutiterebra and its Allies in the British Museum. Hlj.j 



the base and above ; tibise and tarsi black, greyish pollinose, 

 the fornior thinly clothed, the latter fringed at the sides with 

 black hairs ; claws black, sometimes reddish brown in the 

 middle. 



Wings uniformly light brown ; aluUe and squaime also 

 brown, the margin of the latter paler and fringed with very 

 sliort silvery pile; aluhe very conspicuous when the wings 

 are at rest, directed uj)wards, and embracing the scutellum on 

 each side. 



Pupa-case black: length 25-26 raillira. ; width of seventh 

 segment (the broadest) 15 niillim. ; posterior stigmata orange- 

 yellow. 



Medano Blanco, Sta. Barbara Bay (Gulf of California), 

 Mexico {Lieut. II. 0. Boger, R.N.) ; two specimens, both 

 males, with their pupa-cases. The pupte, from which the 

 specimens subsequently emerged, were found in January 1S93, 

 when Lieut. Boger was serving on the Pacific station in 

 H.M.S. ' Melpomene.' The flies appeared in the following 

 March. 



To the anal extremity of each of the pupa-cases are still 

 adhering a number of hairs, evidently those of the host ; they 

 are pale yellowish brown, somewhat curling, and one of 

 them has a distinct black tip. They probably belong to some 

 Rodent, but 1 fear are not sufficient to enable one to hazard 

 even a guess at the host's identity. Lieut. Boger, however, 

 informs me that jack-rabbits (Lepus callotis, Wagler) were 

 abundant in the locality where the larv;e were found. 



Dermatobia, Brauer. 



Dermatobia, Brauer, Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wieii, 1860; ' Monograpbie,' &c. 

 1863, pp. 251-26:3. 



Dermatobia cyaniventrisj Macq. { = D. noxialis, CJoudot). 



Cuterebra cyaniventris, Macquart, Dipteres Exotiques, ii. 3, p. 23 



(1843). 

 Cuterebra noxialis, Goudot, Ann. des Sc. Nat. 3* .s^r. t. iii. pp. 229, 230 



(1845). 



One female, from Ega, R.Amazons, 15razil (Bates). 



In spite of the fact tliat, as pointed out by Goudot (loc. cit. 

 p. 230), Macquart does not mention that the abdomen of 

 C. cyaniventris is clothed with short black pile, with whitish 

 (yellowish) pile at the base, there can be no doubt that the 

 descriptions of the two authors refer to the same species. The 

 species is rcdescribed by Brauer (' Monograjihie,' &c. pp. 2G7- 

 268) from a specimen in the Imperial Natural History 

 Museum at Vienna. 



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