Genera and Species of Blood-suching MusciJae. 293 



"What appears to be the female of this species may be 

 characterized as follows : — 



$ , — Length (3 specimens) 5"5 mm. ; width of head 1*8 

 to 2 mm. ; width of front at vertex just over 0*5 mm. ; 

 length of wing 4'75 to 5'5 mm. 



Apart from usual sexual differences agreeing essentially with 

 ^ , except that dark markings on dorsum of thorax and abdo- 

 men are paler [olive-brown instead of clove-brown or blackish), 

 that the wings although brownish are less noticeably infuscated, 

 that the squama are paler {whitish or yelloicish white), and 

 that the front and middle tibia are also brighter in hue. 



Head : face silvery, sides of front light smoke-grey, duller 

 than in ^ ; frontal stripe clove-brown, its sides somewhat 

 convex below middle ; palpi and antennce as in ^ . Abdo- 

 m,en : median longitudinal stripe on dorsum broader and 

 less sharply defined than in J' . Legs : tarsi and hind tibiae 

 except base mummy-brown. 



India and Cevlon : type from Sylhet, Assam, India, 

 11. ii. 1905 (Major E. A. W. Hall, I.M.S.) ; a second 

 specimen from same locality and collector, 31. i. 1905, 

 received for determiuaLion from Indian Museum, Calcutta; 

 a third specimen, from Pcradeniya, Ceylon, 22. v. 1892 

 [Lt.-Col. Yerbury). 



Stomoxys limbata is closely allied to St. nigra, Macq,, but 

 is distinguished by the front in the cJ being somewhat 

 narrower, with the frontal stripe slightly constricted in the 

 middle, instead of having its sides parallel, and in the ? by 

 the front and middle tibiae being mainly ochraceous instead 

 of for the most part clove-brown or blackish. 



Stomoxys pusilla, sp. n. 



^ . — Length (2 specimens) 4*2 to 4 5 mm. ; width of head 

 1*4 to 1*5 mm. ; width of front at vertex 0*4 mm. ; length 

 of wing 4*25 to 4*5 mm. 



Dorsum of thorax mouse-grey or yellowish grey, with usual 

 clove-brown longitudinal stripes ; dorsum of abdomen olive- 

 grey , first segment, except a small ill-defined area in centre 

 {not reaching fiind margin), second segment, either entirely or 

 irith exception of extreme front margin, and a median longitu- 

 dinal stripe and fairly deep posterior transverse band on third 

 segment clove-brown ; sides of front and sides of face, token 

 viewed from above, light maize-yellow ; ivings broionish ; 

 femora clove-brown, front and middle tibia and tarsi and ex- 

 treme tips of front and middle femora buff, hind tibia and 

 larsi light mummy-brown J base of tibia paler. 



