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Female. — Length/ 6 millimeters. Eyes minutely but thickly 

 pubescent. Frons wide, almost equal to the width of the eye; 

 frontal stripe black; parafrontals black, and equal to about half 

 the width of the frontal stripe; parafrontal bristles long and 

 consisting of three rows, forming a closely set group at vertex, 

 as noted by Stein. Parafacials silvery ; cheeks black. Third an- 

 tennal segment dark brown; palpi black. 



Thorax dark with two broad black stripes slightly divided 

 before the suture; a well-marked silvery median stripe before 

 the suture; humerus silvery. 



Abdomen similar to that of male, except that the admedian 

 stripes on the second segment are not complete and the silvery 

 spots form a silvery median band. Wings, legs, squamae, and 

 halteres as in male. 



Were it not that I have been able to compare the two Chinese 

 specimens with the type and cotype of Musca dasyops, I should 

 have hesitated to regard them as conspecific, especially when 

 it is remembered that they are found in two widely separated 

 areas. I have not seen M. dasyops from any part of India. 

 The two specimens noted by Stein came from Kilamandjaro, 

 East Africa, and Professor Bezzi gave me a female collected 

 by Allaud and Jeannel in the forest region of Mount Kenya, at 

 an altitude of 2,400 meters. Villeneuve has evidently seen fifty 

 specimens including two males collected by these observers. 

 The species is oviparous. I hope collectors in China and neigh- 

 boring parts will look for this interesting species and observe 

 its feeding and breeding habits. 



1 OF THE GENUS MUSCA 



In the following list all the types of the species marked with 

 an asterisk have been examined by me, and the synonyms with 

 a query before them are doubtful. 

 Musca domestica Linnaeus. 



Musca calleva Walker.* 



Musca antiquissima Walker.* 



Musca vicaria Walker.* 



Musca pampasiana Bigot.* 



Musca minor Macquart.* 



Musca corvina Fabricius. 



Musca ludifica Fabricius. 



