On Oriental Species of Stomoxys. 235 



XXIV. — .1 tieir MaJaposrdr ArctHd. 

 By the Hon. Waltkr ItoTiisciiiLD, Ph.D. 



Rhodogastria saalniuelleri, sp. ii. 



c? . Similar to /nzMeri', but smalltr, and the ground-colour 

 more pinkish, le!=.s yellou'. Pectus whitish; legs crimson- 

 scarlet outside, clayish grey-white inside ; antenna chestnut; 

 head and thorax pinkish ligneous buff; palpi scarlet, with 

 black rings ; a black dot on frons, one on vertex, one on 

 e;ich tegula, one at base of both patagia, three pairs on 

 thorax ; abdomen crimson. Fore wing yellowish pinky 

 ligneous clay-colour; disc hyaline, dusted with clayish scales 

 on basal two-thirds ; nervures and discocellular patch of 

 ground-colour of wing, outer edge of vitreous disc narrowly 

 margined with dark brown. Hind wing hyaline, clothed 

 with sparse clay hairs and a brownish discocellular patch. 



Length of fore wing 25 mm. 



/lab. Alorondava, Madagascar ; ^ (S <S - 



XXV. — Notes from the E7itomological Department of the 

 London School of Tropical Medicine. — No. III. Oriental 

 Species of Stomoxys. By SopniA L. M. Summers^ M.A., 

 B.Sc. 



A COLLECTION of about three hundred specimens of Stomoxi/s 

 was kindly sent to the London School of Tropical Medicine 

 by Mr. H. C. Pratt from Kuala Lumpur. 



There are live species in this collection, but only one of 

 them is new. These flies were no doubt collected indiscrimi- 

 nately, so it is interesting to note the numbers of the different 

 s]iecies. The most numerous seem to be Stomo.vgs calcitrans, 

 Linne, and Stomoxys ohlongopunctata^ Brunetti. There 

 are nearly one hundred of each of these. The next in 

 number is Stomoo:ys nigra, Macq.; of these there are over 

 forty. There are about forty specimens of the new species 

 Stomoxys pratti, but of Stomoxys limbato, Austen, there are 

 only eleven specimens. There are male and female in every 

 species. 



'J'he species of Stomoxys are difficult to recognize. So 

 much depends on the way the light is shining on them, and 

 they seem to vary so much in the different lights, that it is 



