294 Mr. E. E. Austen on new 



Head: occiput grey; front fairly narrow, frontal stripe 

 clove-brown, constricted in middle, sides of front con- 

 spicuous; palpi buff; antenna dark brown or mummy- 

 brown, tip of second and extreme base of third joint oclira- 

 ccous rufous. Thorax : admcdian stripes on dorsum mode- 

 rately wide apart, their width about half that of outer stripes 

 at widest portion of latter; length of admedian stripes as in 

 foregoing species; pleurae mouse-grey, mesopleurse dark 

 brown, at any rate when viewed at certain angles. Abdomen : 

 median longitudinal stripe on dorsum of third segment 

 fairly broad. Squama and halteres as in foregoing species. 



India: type and one other specimen from Allahabad, 

 United Provinces, October 1905 [F. M. Howlett). 



Stomoxys jmsilla differs from St. limbata in its smaller 

 size, in the yellower colour of the sides of the front and face, 

 in the dorsum of the second abdominal segment being entirely 

 clove-brown or practically so, instead of having a clove- 

 brown posterior transverse band and median longitudinal 

 stripe, and in the pale tibiae and tarsi of the front and middle 

 legs. 



Stomoxys pulla, sp. n. 



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

 1 6 to 1-8 mm. ; width of front at vertex 0"4 mm. ; length of 

 wing 4'2 to 4'6 mm. 



Fery dark species : V)hen viewed from above body appearing 

 almost uniformly clove-brown, extreme front margin of thorax 

 mouse-grey, ivilh commencement of usual clove-brown longitu- 

 dinal stripes ; when abdomen is viewed from behind, at a very 

 low angle, terminal segment appears olive-grey, while second 

 and third segments may appear more or less mouse-grey , with 

 clove-brown transverse blotches, and perhaps a trace of a 

 narrow median longitudinal stripe; front narrow, occupied for 

 most part by f-ontal stripe, sides of front not noticeable except 

 anteriorly ; wings brownish ; legs clove-brown, tibicE ochraceous- 

 buff at extreme base, first joint of front tarsus fringed ort inside 

 with a row of hairs of equal length, claws black. 



Head: sides of Iront anteriorly yellowish, face silvery, 

 upper portion of occiput clove-brown, basi-occipital region 

 and latero-posterior orbits grey ; frontal stripe clove-brown, 

 slightly or scarcely constricted in middle; palpi buff; an- 

 tenncJE uniformly clove-brown. Thorax : pleuree dark grey, 

 mesopleurse clove-brown above ; lower portion of lateral 

 margins of scutellum, in front of apex, grey. Abdomen : 



