70 SUBULA INAMOENA. 



Fam. Xylophagidne. 



21. Subuia inamoena, Walk. 



Solva inamoena, Walk. Proc. Linn. Soc. IV. 98. 25; — 

 Subuia inamoena^ Ost. Sack. Ann. Mus. Gen. XVI. 407. 



A 9 from Java (Macklot). 



Baron Osten Sacken was quite right, when declaring 

 (1. c.) the genus Solva Walk, synonymous with Subula 

 Megerle, Meig. In fact Solva inamoena Walk, resembles 

 so much the European Subula varia and marginata Meig., 

 that nobody , acquainted with these species , will separate 

 them generically. S. inamoeim. is nearest to S. varia , both 

 having yellow coxae aud rather long antennae. In the 

 specimen of the Leyden Museum the third joint of the 

 antennae is dark-brown on the outside and yellow with 

 a brown tip on the inner side; the yellow humeral calli 

 are larger than in S. varia , and the yellow stripe extend- 

 ing from the shoulders to the root of the wings, as well 

 as the yellow segmentations of the abdomen are broader. 



According to Osten Sacken (1. c.) Subula Jlavipes Dol. 

 (Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. XVII. 85. 18) may be the 

 same species as S. inamoena Walk. A drawing from the 

 hand of Doleschall ^) however allows many doubts as to 

 their identity , for Doleschall has figured the abdomen 

 of his species reddish-brown with black dorsal spots , a 

 pattern which by no means is to be seen in S. inamoena» 



1) Original colored drawings from Doleschall, representing the greatest part 

 of the Diptera described by him in Vol. XVII Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind., 

 were in the possession of the late Mr. Snellen van VoUenhoven some years 

 ago. After his death they came into the hands of Mr. J. Puis at Gend (Bel- 

 gium), who kindly allowed to make two copies of them. Of these copies, 

 made with great accuracy by the well-known engraver A. J. "WenJel at 

 Leyden, one belongs to the Dutch Entomological Society at Leyden, the other 

 to Baron Osten Sacken at Heidelberg. 



iN'otes from the I^eyden IMuseum, "Vol. "VII. 



