1945] Notes on Hippoboscidx 97 
For a long time I was undecided as to whether the African 
parasite were not Lynchia massonnati (Falcoz) {Ornithoponus 
massonnati Falcoz, 1926, Faune de France, XIV, Dipteres 
Pupipares, p. 31, figs. 28-29), based upon the female fly off 
Platalea leucorodia , from the region of the Dombes, Dept. Ain, 
France, which Massonnat (1909, Ann. Univ. Lyon, N.S., 
Fig. 2. Lynchia majuscula J. Bequaert, n. sp., male holotype. A, head; B, ab- 
domen from above (right) and below (left) . 
CXXVIII, p. 304, PI. V, figs. 40-42) had referred to Lynchia 
americana. While it seems fairly certain that Massonnat’s fly 
was not the American Lynchia americana (Leach), it does not 
seem possible to regard it as identical with the African parasite 
of Cormorants. Neither Massonnat nor Falcoz mentions or fig- 
ures the peculiar brush-like setae on the sides of the abdomen. 
These are so characteristic of the female of L. schoutedeni that 
they could hardly have been overlooked. It is possible, how- 
ever, that Massonnat’s specimen was really a male, in which 
case it might well have been my new species. 
