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a wide band behind eyes, bright yellow. Eyes rather small, black 

 facets of uniform size. A blackish brown band stretches across 

 the vertex from eye to eye, with a central larger spot. Two large 

 round spots on front, below vertex, two much smaller ones just 

 below antennae, a small spot immediately below base of antennae, 

 and the proboscis, black. Thorax black, with very short silvery 

 cinereous pubescence, sides black, pleurae pale yellow. Scutellum 

 yellow, base black, bearing two almost microscopic spines. Abdo- 

 men pale yellow, tinged with grey, ist segment 3"ellow, posterior 

 border black in centre ; 2nd, yellow, occupied by a black band 

 not reaching the sides, placed along the foreborder, and extended 

 posteriorly in the centre, and at the sides ; 3rd, 4th and 5th with 

 black bands from anterior border, nearly to posterior border, 

 and not reaching sides of segments ; last segment very small, all 

 yellow. Wings quite clear, veins, costal cell and stigma pale yel- 

 low. Legs yellow, femora with broad brown band about the 

 middle, tips of posterior tibiae, and tips of tarsi, blackish. Hal- 

 teres pale green. Of the three specimens (?) I have seen, one is 

 in the Indian Museum, from Siliguri, and the other two I took 

 myself in Calcutta, 5th March 1905, and ist February 1907, in 

 grass near ponds at Tollygunge. 



0. mutica V. der Wulp, 1885. 

 Notes Leyd. Mus., vii, 62. 



t) Ternate. The author compares this to the North American 

 species nigirostris Lw., a species which, in general facies, seems to 

 have some resemblance to a Lasiopa. 



This species having an unspined scutellum may perhaps be 

 placed in a new genus, in which my suhmutica might also enter. 



Euceromyia Big,, 1877. 



Bull. So. Ent. Fr. (1877), P- Ixxiv. 

 E. nexura Wlk,, 1859. {Stratiomys) Pr. Linn. So., iii, 80. 

 I 'b $ Aru Isles ; also from Mysol. Long. 7 mm. 



In concluding these notes I wish to thank Dr. Annandale, Offi- 

 ciating Superintendent of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, for his 

 kindness in affording me access to the Museum Collection and 

 Library. They were originally intended only as a revised list of 

 Oriental species of Stratiomyidae for my own use, but gradually 

 extended to their present form, and I must again attribute to the 

 paucity of material at my command any errors or deficiencies that 

 may be found. 



I hope to visit England shortly, and shall then be able to 

 correct any errors, at least as far as Walker's species are con- 

 cerned, by an examination of his types at the British Museum. 

 Such corrections will be incorporated in a supplementary paper 

 and published in this journal. 



