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Notes on Hippoboscidae 
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(J. Herve-Bazin) ; Suifu, Sze-Chuen (D. C. Graham) ; 
Soochow (N. Gist Gee) ; Nanking, off dogs (C. S. Low) ; 
Penniu (C. Y. Wong). India: Koolloo (M. M. Carleton). 
Tonkin. 
Distribution. — H. capensis is common in many parts 
of the Mediterranean Subregion (Italy, Sicily, Macedonia, 
Crimea, Asia Minor, Palestine, Cyprus, Egypt, Cyrenaica, 
Tunis, Algeria), throughout the Sudan (as far as Northern 
Nigeria), in East and South Africa (Eritrea, Kenya Col- 
ony, Tanganyika Territory, Zanzibar, Transvaal, Cape 
Province, Southwest Africa), Transcaspia, Turkestan, Per- 
sia, India, Ceylon, China, Korea, and Japan. It has also 
been found in Bukowina, Hungary and Poland; and there 
is one record from Germany (Berlin), where the insect was 
certainly an accidental introduction. It has never been 
reported from the Malay Archipelago, and it appears to 
be absent from the West African Subregion. There is, as 
yet, no record from within the boundaries of the Belgian 
Congo, although I should expect it to occur in Upper 
Katanga. 
I have seen a specimen of H. capensis , from the Canadian 
National Collection, labelled Okanogan Falls, British Colum- 
bia, May 20, 1913 (E. M. Anderson), without indication of 
a host. 
Hosts. — H. icapensis was most probably originally a 
parasite of wild Carnivora in East and South Africa and 
in the Oriental Region. There are positive records of its 
having been found in the wild state, in East Africa, on 
lion, Felis leo Linnaeus; striped and spotted hyena, Hyaena 
hyaena (Linnaeus) and Crocuta crocuta (Erxleben) ; leop- 
ard, Felis pardus Linnaeus; cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus 
(Schreber) ; civet cat, Civettictis civetta (Schreber) ; serval, 
Felis capensis Forster; and fox, Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus). 
Unfortunately there appears to be no record from any of 
the Indian wild Carnivora. It is nowadays most commonly 
found on domestic dogs, especially on the pariah dogs of 
India, which are said to be fairly swarming with “louse- 
flies.” It has also been taken occasionally on some of the 
smaller antelopes, such as the duiker, Cephalophus grimmia 
