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  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION 
  

  

  U. 
  S. 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Vol, 
  98 
  Washington: 
  1948 
  No. 
  3228 
  

  

  FLIES 
  OF 
  THE 
  FAMILY 
  STRATIOMYIDAE 
  OF 
  THE 
  

  

  SOLOMON 
  ISLANDS 
  

  

  By 
  Maubice 
  T. 
  James 
  

  

  The 
  stratiomyid 
  fauna 
  (Diptera) 
  of 
  the 
  Solomon 
  Islands 
  has 
  been 
  

   practically 
  unknown 
  until 
  quite 
  recent 
  times. 
  In 
  1936 
  Curran 
  ^ 
  de- 
  

   scribed 
  three 
  species 
  and 
  recorded 
  a 
  fourth 
  from 
  the 
  archipelago, 
  and 
  

   the 
  following 
  year 
  Lindner 
  ^ 
  published 
  what 
  is 
  to 
  date 
  the 
  most 
  com- 
  

   prehensive 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  the 
  family 
  on 
  these 
  islands. 
  

   The 
  present 
  paper 
  is 
  based 
  largely 
  on 
  the 
  collections 
  made 
  by 
  C. 
  O. 
  

   Berg 
  on 
  Guadalcanal 
  Island, 
  supplemented 
  by 
  material 
  collected 
  on 
  

   Guadalcanal, 
  Bougainville, 
  and 
  other 
  islands 
  of 
  the 
  Solomons 
  group 
  

   by 
  A. 
  B. 
  Gurney, 
  W. 
  G. 
  Downs, 
  Jean 
  Laffoon, 
  George 
  E. 
  Bohart, 
  

   D. 
  Eldon 
  Beck, 
  K. 
  L. 
  Knight, 
  E. 
  Reinschissel, 
  and 
  others. 
  In 
  this 
  ma- 
  

   terial 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  recognize 
  all 
  but 
  three 
  of 
  the 
  forms 
  previously 
  

   recorded 
  or 
  described 
  from 
  the 
  Islands 
  and 
  have 
  added 
  15 
  others, 
  13 
  

   of 
  which 
  are 
  new 
  to 
  science. 
  This 
  paper 
  is 
  being 
  published 
  at 
  this 
  time 
  

   for 
  two 
  reasons 
  : 
  To 
  present 
  a 
  systematic 
  account 
  of 
  a 
  fauna 
  that 
  has 
  

   become 
  fairly 
  well 
  known, 
  thanks 
  to 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  above-mentioned 
  

   collectors 
  ; 
  and 
  to 
  provide 
  names 
  for 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Berg 
  in 
  his 
  account 
  

   of 
  the 
  biologies 
  and 
  immature 
  stages 
  of 
  the 
  Stratiomyidae 
  of 
  the 
  

   Solomons. 
  

  

  1. 
  Cross 
  vein 
  m-cu 
  present 
  (rarely 
  punctiform), 
  the 
  last 
  posterior 
  vein 
  (Cui) 
  

  

  consequently 
  arising 
  from 
  the 
  second 
  basal 
  cell 
  2 
  

  

  Cross 
  vein 
  m-cu 
  absent, 
  all 
  posterior 
  veins 
  distinctly 
  arising 
  from 
  the 
  

   discal 
  cell 
  14 
  

  

  ^ 
  Proc. 
  California 
  Acad. 
  Sci., 
  ser. 
  4, 
  vol. 
  22, 
  pp. 
  12-14, 
  1936. 
  

   •Ann. 
  Mag. 
  Nat. 
  Hist, 
  ser. 
  10, 
  vol. 
  20, 
  pp. 
  370-394, 
  1937. 
  

  

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