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Diptera, Bombyliidae and Myiodaria (Coenosiinae, Muscinae, Calliphorinae, Sarcophaginae, Dexiinae, Tachininae), from the Seychelles and neighbouring Islands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Mario Bezzi
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[This paper is the final report on the Diptera collected by the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition under Professor J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S., in the Seychelles and other islands of the Western Indian Ocean in 1905 and 1908–9. Many reports on the insects collected have appeared in the special series of volumes devoted to that Expedition, Tr. Linn. Soc.London, ser. 2 (Zool.), xii–xviii (from 1907 onwards), but it has not been possible to include all the entomological contributions in that series. I am greatly indebted to the Editor of Parasitology for accepting the present work, which was offered for publication in this journal as it deals with a number of parasitic forms—Bombyliidae, Sarcophaginae, Tachininae, etc. A list of all the other reports on Diptera collected by this Expedition, with full references, is given in Ent. Monthly Mag., 58, 1922, p. 184.

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Parasitology , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 1923 , pp. 75 - 102
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1923

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1 Trans. Linn. Soc. London, ser. 2 (Zool.), XIV, 1910, pp. 149–63.Google Scholar

2 The intention was to submit certain sections of the group to Professor Stein, reserving the other sections, which form the bulk of this present report, to be studied at a later date. But a few specimens which should have been sent to Stein were overlooked, whence it has resulted that in the genus Musca some species were studied by him in 1910, while two others have been added to the list by Professor Bezzi.—H. S.

1 [Before Professor Bezzi's manuscript was received, Major E. E. Austen had in conversation already expressed the opinion that the examples determined by Stein as niveisquama, Thorns., did not agree with Thomson's description of that form, and had suggested that the material might be referable to M. flavinervis, Thorns.—H. S.]

1 For synonymy of, and notes on, this and the following species see Patton, W. S., Bull. Ent. Res., XIII, p. 110, 1922.Google Scholar

1 In Becker, Dipt, aus Süd-Arabien und Insel Sokotra, Denkschr. Ak. Wien, Math.-nat. Kl., LXXI (Halfband 2), 1910. See footnote on p. 18.

1 [The first “Halfband” of vol. LXXI appeared in 1907 and contained other memoirs on the fauna and flora of South Arabia and Sokotra, but not the account of the Diptera. The latter is doubtless in the second half-volume, which had not been received (July 1922) either at Cambridge or in the Natural History Museum (London).—H. S.]

1 Dr Villeneuve has shown (Wien. Enl. Zeit., XXXVI, 1907, p. 251) that the genus Alsomyia B.B., must be suppressed, as its type-species was merely a species of Exorista.