23,4 Patton: New Oriental Species of the Genus Musca 333 



Musca xan'thomelas Wiedemann.* 



Musca albomaculata Villenueve, Patton (nee Macquart).* 

 Musca dorsomaculata Villeneuve, Patton (nee Macquart).* 

 Musca convexifrons Bezzi, Patton (nee Thomson). 



A common Indian species. 



This species has long been confused with convexifrons Thom- 

 son, and recently with albomaculata Macquart and dorsomaculata 

 Macquart. The type of xanthomelas, a female in Westermann's 

 collection at Copenhagen, though in bad preservation, is a typical 

 specimen of this Indian species; it was collected in Java from 

 where it has not since been recorded ; it has a white puparium. 

 Musca albina Wiedemann.* 



Found in Ceylon and Baluchistan, in the Oriental Region. 



Colonel Yerbury's collection contains one female albina from 

 Trincomali (October 1, 1890) and a male from Mahagasy (No- 

 vember 30, 1890) . The male of this interesting species has not 

 been described, but Professor Bezzi tells me he has recently pre- 

 pared a description of it as well as of the male of lucidula Loew 

 (which closely simulates it) from material from Cairo, where 

 both species are not uncommon. He is erecting a new subgenus 

 for albina, in both sexes of which sternopleural bristles are 

 wanting. Except the type, which is a female, from India, I 

 have seen only one other specimen from Baluchistan in the 

 Indian Museum collection, which I now have for study. Colonel 

 Yerbury is to be congratulated on securing these specimens, 

 especially the male, from Ceylon. I hope collectors in the Orien- 

 tal Region will look for this interesting species. It is a very 

 whitish fly, the female particularly so, with a very broad frons 

 and a narrow black frontal stripe. The thorax of the male is 

 glossy black, the humeri are white ; the abdomen is light orange 

 with spots and stripes, as in lucidula. 

 Musca gibsoni Patton and Cragg.* 

 ? Musca latiparafrons Awati. 



Common in many parts of India and Ceylon. 



I have not seen this species from anywhere outside the Indian 

 area; in the male the eyes are minutely pubescent. The types 

 are in the Indian Museum, but I have many cotypes in my 

 collection. 



