130 The Philippine Jownal of Science 1917 



Orient. Originally described as a Musca and subsequently re- 

 ferred to Lucilla, or to Chrysomyia, or to Pycnosoma; but as 

 Coquillett states that this species is the type of Compsom2jia,^° 

 it seems at present better to reserve this generic name for the 

 species with enlarged areolets near the eyes of the male. They 

 are prevalently oriental. The Ethiopian species of the group 

 marginalis can retain the name Pycnosoma, and the Neotropical 

 species of the group macellaria can retain that of Chrysomyia. 



162. Philaematomyia crassirostris Stein. 1903. 



Luzon, Laguna, Mount Maquiling (Baker) ; Rizal, Alabang 

 {Mitzmain). A common species, known from India and Java, 

 but certainly spread over all the Oriental Region as well as the 

 Mediterranean and Ethiopian Regions. 



163. PMlaematomyia inferior Stein. 1909. 



Leyte, Tacloban {Baker) ; Luzon, Rizal, Alabang {Mitz- 

 main) . This species was described from Java ; it seems to 

 be widely spread in the Orient, like the preceding. It was first 

 described in the genus Musca; but according to Patton and 

 Cragg," who have redescribed it under the name gurnei, it be- 

 longs to the present genus, notwithstanding the form of the 

 proboscis, which on macroscopic examination seems to be very 

 different from that of the type species. 



164. Stomoxys nigra Macq. 1851. 



Los Baiios. Ihis common Ethiopian blood-sucking fly seems 

 to be widely spread in the Oriental Region, being recorded by 

 Summers as one of the commoner species at Kuala Lumpur, 

 Federated Malay States. 



165. Lyperosia exigua de Meij. 1903. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Baiios {Baker) ; Rizal, Alabang (Mitz- 

 main) . A common blood-sucking fly of the Orient. 



166. Mydaea duplicata Meig. 1826. 



Numerous specimens of both sexes from Baguio, Benguet. 

 The only difference from the European specimens, that I can 

 perceive, is that the female is darker and has darker legs and 

 a little broader frons. The present species is not to be con- 

 founded with M. duplex Stein from New Guinea, which has only 

 posterior dorsocentral bristles. 



" However, Brauer and Bergenstamm claimed, before the tim© of Co- 

 quillett, that the type of Compsomyia was macellaria. 

 "7wd. Journ. Med. Res. (1913), 1,3. 



