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SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
Conors erythrocephala, F.—Two males from Colombo, IV. 09, and 
Kandy, XII. 07, respectively. 
Lucilia dux, Erichs.—Generally common, probably all the year 
round, being one of the most generally distributed of the “ scaven¬ 
ger ” flies in the East, a cognomen which is somewhat misleading, 
as it probably (in company with most, if not all, others of its genus 
and of all allied genera) transmits more disease than any other fly, 
excepting perhaps Musca domestica and the immediate allies of that 
species. 
Pycnosoma flavipes , Meg., is a probable synonym of L. dux, which 
is the species, so far as I know, which, it is alleged, caused the recent 
outbreak of smallpox amongst the nurses at the General Hospital, 
Calcutta. 
The abominable contamination of food, which is absolutely 
inevitable, through the presence in such numbers of the commoner 
species of Muscinse (Musca, Lucilia, Calliphora) is a subject which, 
in the author’s opinion, is of at least as weighty importance as the 
crusade against mosquitoes on behalf of the extermination of 
malaria. 
Stomoxys calcitrans, L.—Generally common everywhere in the East. 
Limnophora bisetosa, Thoms.—A female from Kandy, January, 
1908. 
Ophyra nigra, W.—Peradeniya, IX. 07. Four males. 
Senopterina egues, Sch.—One or two from Kandy. 
Sepsis coprophila, Meij.—Peradeniya, XI. 07. 
S. fasciculata, Brun.—Only two specimens of this species have been 
seen by me. The one in my own collection from Ceylon is the type, 
the other, now accidentally destroyed, was in the Indian Museum 
from Calcutta, 16 VI. 07. 
Calobata splendens, W.—One female, Kandy, IX. 07. 
Diopsis indica, Westw.—One from Haldummulla, VII. 09. 
D. sp.—Three examples of what may be a new species from 
Kandy, V. and IX. 07, and from Balangoda, I. 01. 
Celyphus obtectus, Halm.—Peradeniya, V. 09. 
C. sp., ? dohrni, Big.—Several specimens, Peradeniya, V. to IX. 07, 
and Kandy, IX. 07. 
Olidia cenea, W.—Not uncommon. Colombo, VII. 09. 
Aphiochceta, sp. nov.—This will be described in my forthcoming 
paper on “ New Oriental Hiptera.” 
Hippobosca variegata, Leach.—-Two from Passara, XII. 07. Mr. 
Austen informs me of a necessary correction here to maculata, 
Leach. 
Cyclopodia tykesi, V. W.—One, “ Ceylon.” 
N.B.—The above list does not comprise more than one-third of 
the species received by me from Ceylonese localities, but it may be 
useful to workers in Oriental Hiptera, and it is possible that later on 1 
may identify some further portion of my collection from this Island. 
