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Yerbury),* the genus Stygeromyia also includes a second species, 

 S. sanguinaria, Austen, f which has been taken at Ruwe, West 

 Lualaba, Katanga District, Congo Free State (Dr. A. Yale Massey), 

 and at Monkey Bay, Lake Nyasa, Nyasaland Protectorate (the 

 late Captain Hallam Hardy, R.A.M.C.). The type of the male, 

 which was caught in open bush on high ground, attracted Dr. Yale 

 Massey's attention by biting him on the hand, " causing pain 

 similar to that produced by the bite of a Tsetse." 



Philcematomyia insignis, Austen. 



Fig. I. Head of 9 in profile, showing proboscis as it appears when not 

 in use ( x 25).} 



The genus Philcematomyia, of which but a single, remarkably 

 widely distributed species (Ph. insignis, Austen, a small greyish 

 fly, not unlike Musca domestica, Linn., in size and general appearance) 



* Gf. E. E. Austen, " A New Genus and Species of Phlebotomic Muscidse from 

 Aden " : Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 7, Vol. XIX., pp. 445-448 

 (1907). 



fCy. E. E. Austen, ibid., Ser. 8, Vol. III., pp. 286-288 (1909). 



} For permission to reproduce this figure and the two following illustrations the 

 author is indebted to Messrs. Taylor & Francis, who have most kindly lent the 

 original blocks. 



