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not related in any way to the other living species. In gen- 
eral appearance it is more like the usual bird hippoboscid 
flies than like the other Hippoboscse. The legs are unusually 
long and slender, and the empodium is unique. 
8. Hippobosca cameiina Leach 
Hippobosca cameiina Leach, 1817, “Gen. Spec. Eprobosci. 
Ins.,” p. 10, PL XXVII, figs. 11-14 [called Hippobosca 
cameli in the Explanation of Plates, p. 20] (no sex 
given; Egypt). Dufour, 1858, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 
(3) VI, Bull. Seances, p. ciii (described as a new 
species, from Southern Algeria). Speiser, 1902, 
Zeitschr. Syst. Hym. Dipt., II, p. 176. Austen, 1903, 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) XII, p. 257. Theobald, 
1906, 2d Rept. Wellcome Res. Labor. Khartoum, p. 92, 
figs. 48, 50, and 53; PL X, fig. 2. 
Hippobosca bactriana Rondani, 1878, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen- 
ova, XII, p. 165 (no sex given; Persia and Massaua, 
Eritrea) . 
Hippobosca dromedarina Speiser, 1902, Zeitschr. Syst. 
Hym. Dipt., II, p. 176 (new name for the North Afri- 
can parasite of dromedaries, which Rondani called H. 
cameiina ) . 
Specimens Examined. — Palestine: Petra (W. M. Mann). 
Arabia: Akaba, off camel (W. M. Mann) ; Aden, off Cam - 
elus dromedarius Linnseus, May 9, 1927 (J. Bequaert). 
Somaliland: Berbera (A. D. Smith). Kenya Colony: 
Archers Post, Northern Guaso Nyero River, November 3, 
1911 (R. B. Woosnam). Egypt: Lisht (A. Hrdlicka). 
Tunis: Djerba (A. Weiss). 
Distribution. — This parasite is found throughout North 
Africa, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Asia Minor, Persia, Af- 
ghanistan, Arabia, the Sudan (as far west as Mauretania 
and the Senegal), and northeastern Africa (as far south 
as Kenya Colony). All of this territory is probably part 
of its original distribution. It has been introduced recently 
