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THE DIPTERA 



[b) Wings pale, palpi short— Glossina brevipalpis group. 



(1) Dorsum of thorax with four sharply defined dark brown 



oval or elongate spots, arranged in a parallelogram, two 

 in front and two behind the transverse suture proboscis 

 bulb, with brown or dark brown tip — G. longipennis 

 Corti, 1895. 



(2) Dorsum of thorax without such spots, and proboscis bulb 



not brown or dark brown at the tip. 

 (i.) Wings with upper thickened portion of anterior 



transverse vein dark and distinct — G. brevipalpis 



Newstead, 1910. 

 (ii.) Wings with anterior transverse vein — G. medicorum 



Austen, 191 1. 



' Recently Grunberg has described a new species, G. ziemanni Griinberg, 

 1 91 2, but its position at present is not quite certain. 



Hsematobosca Bezzi, 1911. 



Stomoxydinae resembling HcBmaiohia, but with no bristles on the 

 first and third longitudinal veins, and with fourth longitudinal vein 

 almost as strongly bent as in Musca ; therefore first posterior cell 

 only very narrowly opens. Distribution: Southern Europe and 

 China. 



Type. — HcBmatohosca atripalpis Bezzi, 1895. 

 European Species. — H. atripalpis Bezzi, 1895. 



Asiatic Species. — H. perturbans Bezzi, 1907, found at Tang-San, China. 



Haematobia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830. 

 Synonym. — -Siphona Meigen, 1824. 



Stomoxydinae resembhng Stomoxys, but with spatulate maxillary 

 palps nearly as long as the proboscis; arista feathered dorsally and 

 ventrally, and third longitudinal vein bristly proximally. Body 

 robust, head broad and squat. Distribution: Europe, India, etc. 



Type. — Hcematohia stimulans Meigen, 1824. 



European Species. — H. stimulans Meigen. 



Asiatic Species. — H. sanguisugeiis Austen, 1909; H. rufipes Brunetti, 1910, 

 in India. 



Bdellolarynx Austen, 1909. 



Flies like Hcamatohia, but without sexual colour dimorphism. 

 Arista with long hairs above and with six fairly long hairs below. 

 No bristles on first and third longitudinal veins. 



B. sanguinolentus Austen, 1909, is a blood-sucker found in India 

 and Ceylon. 



MusciN^. 



Musca Linnaeus, 1761, 

 Musca putrida is the cause of Myriase do Sero in San Paulo. 



Calliphora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830. 

 These are the blow-flies or bluebottles, of which C. erythrocephala Meigen is 

 the common species. It and the following have been found in the human intes- 

 tine: C. azurea, C. vomitoria. C. limeus is a common cause of nasal myiasis. 



