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very troublesome, especially in the early morning and at sunset, 
on the shores of the Lake of Tiberias, easily piercing ordinary 
flannel with its proboscis. e wound is not very painful and 
does not as a rule become inflamed.—N. A.) 
Sub-family ANTHOMYINAE. 
Limnophora tonitrui, Wied. 
This is reported by Dr. Annandale as the commonest of the 
‘‘house flies’’ after Musca domestica. The specimens seem to 
form a local race as the usual broad black transverse stripe is 
broken up into three large spots, in only one instance out of 2 
3 & and 5 Q Q being entire (a 7). 
There can be no reasonable doubt as to the identity of the 
species, which is quite common in houses, greenhouses, and 
similar habitats in India. Nazareth and Tiberias. (This fly 
is just as troublesome in its habits as Musca domestica, so 
far as settling on the face and hands is concerned.—N. A.) 
N.B.—In addition to L. tonitrui there is a single specimen 
of a second species of Anthomyinae from Nazareth (‘fin house ’’) 
which I am unable to identify. 
Family HIPPOBOSCIDAE. 
Hippobosca equina, lL. 
Four specimens from Tiberias, Nazareth and (‘sucking 
blood of horses’’) Kefr Kenna. (Very common on_ horses 
and cattle.—N. A.) 
[By far the most troublesome blood-sucking flies at Tiberias 
and Nazareth in October are the so-called sand-flies of the 
Medicine, who has been kind enough to examine the adult 
specimens I collected, finds only two species (Ph. papatasi Scop. 
and Ph. minutus Rond.) among them, thus confirming the pre- 
he found the same two Species, and them only, in a large collec- 
tion from Aleppo. Phlebotomus apparently occurs at Tiberias 
amascus, in which 
ntirely disappeared before 
n Ph. minutus at Nazareth 
it is troublesome in summer, it had e 
the end of October. I did not obtai 
