292 Mr. E. E. Austen on new 



entirely ochraceous-buff, except for a browuisli blotch just 

 before distal extremity. 



India and Ceylon : type of ,^ from the environs of Cal- 

 cutta, India, 8. ii. 1905 {E. Bninetti) ; type of ? and 

 another ? from Mussoorie, United Provinces, India, Sep- 

 tember 1906 {F. M. Howidt) : additional specimens from 

 Allahabad, United Provinces, India, G. x. 1905 {F. M. Huw- 

 lett); Sylhet, Assam, India, 13. iv. 1905 [Major Hall, 

 I. M.S.) ; and Henaratgoda and Halduraulla, Ceylon, 7. ii. 

 & U. vi. 1892 (Lieut.- Colonel Yerburij). 



Genus Stomoxys,. GeofFr. 

 Stomoxys limbata, sp. n. 



(J. — Length (3 specimens) -1'8 to 5*5 mm. ; width of head 

 1*6 to 2 mm. ; width of front at vertex O'-l mm. ; length of 

 wing 46 to 5"25 mm. 



Smoke-gre7j : face and sides of front bright yellowish- 

 silvery, front narrow ; dorsum of thorax with usual clove- 

 brorvn longitudinal stripes, admedian stripes narrow and tvide 

 apart; dorsum of abdomen with deep clove-brown or blackish 

 transverse band on hind border of each of first three segments ; 

 wings with a brownish tinge ; femora dark clove-brown, their 

 extreme tips and base of hind tibia; ochraceous-buff, front and 

 middle tibice and tarsi mummy-brown, hind tarsi and hind 

 tibia except base sepia-coloured. 



Head: frontal stripe clove-brown, slightly constricted in 

 middle ; occiput dark grey, latero-posterior orbits grey ; 

 palpi buff ; autennce greyish brown, tip of second and ex- 

 tieme base of third joint ocbraceous-rufous. Thorax: ad- 

 median stripes on dorsum extending from front margin to a 

 point rather less than half-way between transverse suture and 

 praiscutellar groove, outer stripes much broader and con- 

 spicuously interrupted by transverse suture ; mesopleural 

 liristles fairly stout. Abdomen : dark band on dorsum of 

 second segment occupying more than half the segment, bands 

 on first and third segments narrower ; second and third 

 segments usually with a narrow median clove-brown stripe, 

 which on third segment may be obsolete. Squamce strongly 

 tinged with brown. H alter es buff. 



India : Calcutta, 16. vi. 1907 ; additional specimens from 

 Port Canning, Lower Bengal, 21. vii. 1907 [Dr. N. Annan- 

 dale), and Calcutta, 20. viii. 1907, are in the collection of 

 the Indian Museum. 



