﻿NOTES 
  ON 
  THE 
  CALLIPHORINAE. 
  PART 
  I. 
  THE 
  ORIENTAL 
  SPECIES. 
  113 
  

  

  8. 
  Lucilia 
  inducta, 
  Walker. 
  

  

  Synonym 
  : 
  Lucilia 
  craggii, 
  Pat 
  ton. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  another 
  common 
  Indian 
  species, 
  which 
  I 
  recently 
  described 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  

   craggii. 
  It 
  is, 
  like 
  Chrysomyia 
  combrea, 
  mainly 
  a 
  hill 
  species 
  and 
  is 
  common 
  in 
  the 
  

   north 
  of 
  India, 
  and 
  Mr. 
  Senior-White 
  has 
  collected 
  it 
  in 
  Shillong. 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  large 
  blue 
  

   species, 
  and 
  behaves 
  much 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  way 
  as 
  does 
  Calliphora 
  erythrocephala 
  in 
  this 
  

   country, 
  coming 
  into 
  houses 
  and 
  buzzing 
  round 
  food. 
  It 
  breeds 
  in 
  the 
  dead 
  bodies 
  

   of 
  birds 
  and 
  small 
  mammals. 
  

  

  9. 
  Lucilia 
  pulchra, 
  Wiedemann. 
  

  

  Synonym 
  : 
  Lucilia 
  (Musca) 
  phellia, 
  Walker. 
  

  

  This 
  handsome 
  species, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  beautifully 
  coloured 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  Calli- 
  

   phorinae 
  known 
  to 
  me, 
  is 
  widely 
  distributed 
  in 
  India. 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  larviparous 
  species 
  

   and 
  never 
  settles 
  on 
  food 
  in 
  the 
  bazaars, 
  but 
  is 
  for 
  the 
  most 
  part 
  found 
  on 
  flowers, 
  

   and 
  the 
  female 
  on 
  decaying 
  animal 
  matter 
  and 
  dung 
  of 
  all 
  kinds. 
  Walker's 
  type 
  of 
  

   his 
  Musca 
  phellia, 
  a 
  female, 
  is 
  this 
  species. 
  I 
  have 
  given 
  a 
  full 
  description 
  of 
  it, 
  as 
  

   well 
  as 
  its 
  larva 
  and 
  puparium, 
  in 
  a 
  recent 
  number 
  of 
  the 
  Indian 
  Journal 
  of 
  Medical 
  

   Research. 
  

  

  10. 
  Lucilia 
  metilia, 
  Walker. 
  

  

  Synonym 
  : 
  ? 
  Lucilia 
  ballardii, 
  Patton. 
  

  

  The 
  type 
  of 
  Walker's 
  Musca 
  metilia, 
  from 
  Nepal, 
  is 
  a 
  male 
  Lucilia 
  in 
  very 
  bad 
  

   preservation. 
  I 
  have 
  come 
  to 
  the 
  conclusion 
  provisionally 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  the 
  

   species 
  recently 
  described 
  "by 
  me 
  as 
  Lucilia 
  ballardii 
  from 
  South 
  India. 
  

  

  11. 
  Lucilia 
  sericata, 
  Meigen. 
  

  

  There 
  are 
  two 
  specimens, 
  a 
  male 
  and 
  female, 
  of 
  this 
  well-known 
  European 
  semi- 
  

   specie 
  myiasis-producing 
  fly 
  from 
  Parachinar, 
  Kurram 
  Valley, 
  North 
  West 
  Frontier 
  

   Province, 
  India, 
  in 
  the 
  National 
  Collection, 
  bred 
  from 
  larvae 
  collected 
  by 
  Sinton 
  

   from 
  a 
  case 
  of 
  human 
  cutaneous 
  myiasis. 
  This 
  is 
  the 
  first 
  record 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  from 
  

   the 
  Indian 
  Region, 
  and 
  I 
  have 
  not 
  seen 
  it 
  from 
  any 
  other 
  part 
  of 
  India. 
  

  

  12. 
  Calliphora 
  aucta, 
  Walker. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  the 
  common 
  Indian 
  species 
  of 
  this 
  genus, 
  and 
  has, 
  I 
  have 
  little 
  doubt, 
  

   been 
  mistaken 
  for 
  C. 
  erythrocephala. 
  It 
  is 
  common 
  in 
  the 
  hill 
  stations 
  in 
  North 
  

   India, 
  and 
  I 
  have 
  recently 
  received 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  specimens 
  from 
  Kashmir, 
  collected 
  

   by 
  Dr. 
  Baini 
  Prashad, 
  of 
  the 
  Zoological 
  Survey 
  of 
  India. 
  

  

  This 
  concludes 
  my 
  notes 
  on 
  the 
  Oriental 
  species 
  that 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  study, 
  

   and 
  I 
  need 
  hardly 
  say 
  I 
  shall 
  be 
  very 
  glad 
  to 
  receive 
  any 
  specimens 
  of 
  Calliphorinae 
  

   from 
  any 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  world, 
  and 
  any 
  larvae 
  with 
  flies 
  bred 
  from 
  them 
  would 
  be 
  most 
  

   valuable. 
  I 
  hope 
  soon 
  to 
  start 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  comparative 
  studies 
  of 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  

   commoner 
  species, 
  describing 
  their 
  early 
  stages 
  in 
  detail. 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  not 
  attempted 
  to 
  unravel 
  the 
  difficult 
  synonymy 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  Pyrellia 
  

   and 
  Pseudopyrellia. 
  The 
  names 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  belonging 
  to 
  these 
  genera 
  are 
  at 
  present 
  

   in 
  hopeless 
  confusion. 
  But 
  as 
  soon 
  as 
  I 
  have 
  an 
  opportunity 
  of 
  examining 
  Bigot's 
  

   types, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  those 
  of 
  Walker, 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  possible 
  to 
  determine 
  the 
  known 
  species 
  

   accurately. 
  

  

  As 
  soon 
  as 
  I 
  have 
  sufficient 
  material 
  from 
  the 
  Australian 
  region, 
  I 
  hope 
  to 
  deal 
  

   with 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  Calliphorinae 
  from 
  that 
  area 
  in 
  Part 
  II 
  of 
  these 
  notes. 
  

  

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