SXKATIOMIIA. ODOXXOMYIA . 01 



\^ holly black, dorsum entirely covered with dense yellowish-grey 

 pubescence, and sides with the pubescence a little paler. 8cu- 

 tellinn black, with yellowish-grey pubescence ; hind margin 

 broadly brownish yellow ; spines concoloroiis, with rather lono- 

 whitish-grey pubescence about their bases. Abdomen moderately 

 shining black, with rather dense, brownish-yellow pubescence on 

 dorsum of lind, 3rd, and 4th segments, the pubescence paler on 

 anterior corners and whitish on 5th and Gth segments. A rather 

 lai'ge triangular orange spot on hind border towards each side of 

 2nd segment, the iunt-r end of each narrowed to a fine point, the 

 base of the spot placed on the side-margin but extending only 

 halfway to the anterior margin ; hind margin of 3rd segment 

 orange, the colour very narrow in centre of segment, much 

 broader towards sides but narrowed again just on side-margin; a 

 similar orange hind margin to 4th segment and a fair-sized orange 

 triangular spot on .".th, with its base on hind margin ; 6th seo-ment 

 all orange; the extreme side-margin of all segments orange, 

 except the anterior half of 2nd segment. Genitalia brownish 

 orange, small, apparently consisting of a median cylindrical piece 

 and a small lamella on each side. Venter with 2iid seo-ment 

 wholly, 3rd broadly, and 4:th narrowly on hind margins, brownish 

 orange. Lerjs black, with grey pubescence on femora and tibife, 

 yellowish on tarsi ; tips of all femora, basal half of hind pair, base 

 and tips of anterior tibiae, hind tibiae wholly, and all tarsi 

 orange. Wings pale brownish grey, veins a little darker ; halteres 

 orange. 



Length 12 mm. 



Described from a single 6 from Taro, Peshawur District, N.W. 

 India, 16-19. v. 1915 (FleicJier) ■ presented by him to the British 

 Museum. 



Near JS. harca. Walk., but in that species the abdominal orange 

 (" tawny ") spots are not united to form a band ; the tibia) are 

 piceous and the legs have tawny pubescence. 



Genus ODONTOMYIA, %. 



0(7o?zi;o??»/w, Meic-en, Illig. Mag. ii, p. 205 (1803); Brimetti, Hec 



Ind. Mus. i, p. 126 (1907). 

 Opseogt/vmus, A. Costa, II Giamb. Vice Napoli, ii, p. 443 (1857). 

 Psellidutus, Roudani, Art-h. p. 1. Zool. Modeua, iii, p. 78 (1863). 

 Eidalia, Kertesz, Kat. Dipt, iii, p. 62 (1908). 



Genotype, Miisca hgdroleon, L. (Europe) ; by designation of 

 Westwcod (184U). 



J?t'rt(? about as broad as thorax, transverse ; eyes rather flattened, 

 bare or hairy, contiguous in (S , upper facets larger than lower 

 ones, broadly separated in $ ; face prominent, pubescent ; pro- 

 boscis rather long; palpi small, cylindrical. Antennae with first 

 two joints short, 1st longer than 2iid ; 3rd much longer, cylin- 

 drical, tapering, with four to six aunulations, last two sometimes 



