58 stratiomyib.t;. 



more than b:isal lialf of front metatarsus, and the hind metatarsus 

 wholly, and most of the succeeding joints brownish orange; 

 pubescence of legs black. IViiu/s uniformly rather dark brown, a 

 little lighter at base and darker about the stigina ; halteres pale 

 dull orange. 



Lenf/t7i, 9 mm. 



Described frpni a unique specimen (genital organs missing) in 

 the Indian Museum from Kalimpong, 600-4500 ft., Darjiling 

 District, iv-v. 1915 (Gravel;/). 



Genus STRATIOMYIA, Geof. 



Strati(»»ys, Geoffrey, Hist, d. Ins. ii, p. 475 (1704). * 



Stratiomiis, I'abiicius, E!it. Syst. iv, p. 262 (1794) ; Meigeii, IHig. 



Mag. ii, p. 2(35 (18U3). 

 Strntiomyia, Macqaavt, Dipt. Exot. i, pt. 1, p. 179 (18.38) ; Bruuetti, 



Rec. Ind. Mus. i. p. 125 (1907). 

 Hoplomijia, Zeller, Isis, xi, p. 882 (recte 828) (1842). 

 Stratiotomj/ia, E. E. Arribalzaga, Bol. Acad. Nat. (Jieiic. Cordoba, 



iv, p. 128 (1882). 



Genotype, Musen chamcdeon, L. (Europe) ; by designation of 

 Latreille, Consid. Gen. (1810). 



IJead semicircular, face arched, postocular orbits thickened, 

 especially in 5 ; proboscis comparatively small ; palpi small ; 

 eyes in c5' practically contiguous, the upper facets often much 

 larger than lower ones, wide apart in 5 ; in both sexes either bare 

 or hairy, sometimes a sexual character. Antennae approximate at 

 base, diverging after 1st joint, which is very much longer 

 than 2nd ; 3rd joint elongate, cylindrical, bare, with five or six 

 annulations (occasionally an annulation subdivided). 77iOj-«.i' sub- 

 quadrate, broader behind, pubescent ; scutellum two-spined. 

 Abdonien broader than thorax, slightly arched, subquadrate, 

 shoulders angular ; whole dorsum s])arsely, moderately, or some- 

 what densely pubescent ; wings folded one above the other at 

 rest, lying witliin the side-margins of the abdomen ; genitalia 

 small. I^tys moderately stout, shortly pubescent. Wiiif/s mainly 

 as in Odontomi/ia; 3rd vein forked, 4th vein terminations (three) 

 long, curved, nearly reaching wing-margin, the hindmost more or 

 less parallel with upper branch of 5th vein ; posterior cross-vein 

 present but sometimes small; anal cell closed near wing-margin; 

 alar squamae small, thoracic large and pubescent. 



Jtanr/e. AVorld-wido except Au.>^tralia and the Ethiopian liegion. 



Life-history. Metamorphoses of more than one European species 

 known. Larvae fusiform, broadest before the middle ; known as 



* [In tliis work C4cofiV()y did not afcept tlie biiuiry syt^teia of nomenclature 

 upon wbicii ;ill our niudern ^oolo^icul classification is based ; it luis therefore 

 been ruled iljat all generic names therein pruposed by liim are just as invalid as 

 pre-Linn;V!an names. Tbe autliorship of Stradomys should tlius be attributed 

 to Fabricius. — Ed.] 



