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A NEW SPECIES OF CORDYLOBIA, A GENUS OF AFRICAN 

 DIPTERA (FAMILY TACHINIDiE, SUBFAMILY CALLIPHO- 

 RINiE), THE LARV^ OF WHICH ARE SUBCUTANEOUS 

 PARASITES IN MAN AND OTHER MAMMALS. 



By EENEST E. AUSTEN. 



(Published hi/ permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Cordylobia praegrandis, sp. n. 



$. — Length (3 specimens) 15*G to 1G*5 mm.; width o£ head 6*25 to 6*5 

 mm. ; width of front at vertex 2*5 mm. ; length of wing 14*75 to 15 mm. 



Body saffron-yellow^ with black markings (^somewhat toned doivn J>y a lioary 

 hlooni) as sliown in pgure ; wings with a hrowrdsh tinge ; femora orange-buff ; 



Cordylobia prayrandis, Austen, ^. (x 3.) 



tiljice and tarsi hff-yellow. — StriVingly similar to C. anthropophaga, Grunb.^ 9 5 

 in general coloration and markings, but, in addition to its much larger size, 

 distinguished by mo7'e elongate form of abdomen (due to increased length and 

 KULL. ENT. RES. VOL, I. TART I. APRIL I9IO. 



