﻿STRATIOMYIDAE 
  OF 
  SOLOMON 
  ISLANDS 
  — 
  JAMES 
  205 
  

  

  (Gurney) 
  ; 
  1 
  female, 
  Bougainville 
  Island, 
  1944 
  (Gurney) 
  ; 
  1 
  female, 
  

   Empress 
  Augusta 
  Bay, 
  Bougainville 
  Island, 
  February 
  1944 
  (L. 
  J. 
  

   Bennett) 
  ; 
  1 
  male. 
  Empress 
  Augusta 
  Bay, 
  March, 
  1944 
  (Downs) 
  ; 
  

   2 
  males, 
  Bougainville 
  Island 
  (Downs). 
  

  

  ARTEMITOMIMA, 
  new 
  genus 
  

  

  Female 
  (male 
  unknown). 
  — 
  Head, 
  excluding 
  prominences 
  at 
  anten- 
  

   nal 
  bases, 
  distinctly 
  higher 
  than 
  long 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  broader 
  than 
  high 
  ; 
  

   occiput 
  concave 
  from 
  dorsal 
  view, 
  transverse 
  below; 
  ocellar 
  triangle 
  

   a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  wide, 
  removed 
  from 
  occiput 
  by 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  than 
  

   its 
  length; 
  vertex 
  and 
  upper 
  part 
  of 
  front 
  narrow, 
  parallel-sided, 
  

   about 
  0.15 
  head 
  width, 
  then 
  abruptly 
  widening 
  above 
  antennae 
  to 
  

   width 
  of 
  face, 
  which 
  is 
  parallel-sided 
  and 
  about 
  0.25 
  head 
  width 
  ; 
  front 
  

   with 
  a 
  low 
  but 
  sharp 
  carina 
  beginning 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  anterior 
  ocel- 
  

   lus 
  and 
  extending 
  along 
  ocular 
  orbit 
  to 
  point 
  where 
  front 
  begins 
  to 
  

   widen, 
  the 
  two 
  carinae 
  distinctly 
  though 
  narrowly 
  separated 
  from 
  

   each 
  other 
  for 
  their 
  entire 
  length 
  ; 
  each 
  frontal 
  callus 
  produced 
  into 
  

   a 
  prominence 
  which 
  takes 
  the 
  form 
  of 
  a 
  truncated 
  half 
  -cone, 
  as 
  high 
  

   as 
  length 
  of 
  first 
  antennal 
  segment, 
  from 
  the 
  lower 
  inner 
  surface 
  of 
  

   which 
  the 
  antenna 
  arises. 
  Facial 
  orbits 
  moderately 
  broad 
  above 
  but 
  

   evanescent 
  below; 
  occipital 
  orbits 
  narrow, 
  evanescent 
  along 
  upper 
  

   posterior 
  margin 
  of 
  each 
  eye 
  ; 
  lower 
  posterior 
  margin 
  of 
  eye 
  concave 
  

   in 
  lateral 
  profile; 
  eyes 
  bare. 
  Proboscis 
  short; 
  labella 
  large, 
  extend- 
  

   ing 
  when 
  withdrawn 
  to 
  within 
  length 
  of 
  first 
  antennal 
  segment 
  from 
  

   base 
  of 
  antenna; 
  no 
  distinct 
  oral 
  margin. 
  Antenna 
  porrect; 
  first 
  

   segment 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  wide 
  ; 
  second 
  from 
  outer 
  view 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  

   as 
  wide, 
  from 
  inner 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  a 
  result 
  of 
  its 
  prolongation 
  along 
  

   side 
  of 
  flagellum; 
  second 
  segment 
  and 
  flagellum 
  together 
  forming 
  a 
  

   lanceolate 
  complex 
  terminating 
  in 
  a 
  long 
  slender 
  aristalike 
  style; 
  

   flagellum 
  composed 
  of 
  three 
  major 
  segments, 
  strikingly 
  oblique 
  in 
  

   outline, 
  followed 
  by 
  two 
  moderately 
  short 
  ones 
  and 
  a 
  3-segmented 
  

   style, 
  the 
  basal 
  two 
  segments 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  short, 
  the 
  apical 
  one 
  as 
  long 
  

   as 
  the 
  remaining 
  antennal 
  segments 
  combined. 
  

  

  Thorax 
  long, 
  its 
  length, 
  including 
  scutellum, 
  about 
  twice 
  maximum 
  

   width, 
  its 
  width 
  at 
  wing 
  bases 
  about 
  1.6 
  that 
  across 
  humeri 
  ; 
  propleura 
  

   well 
  developed; 
  scutellum 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  rounded 
  and 
  dis- 
  

   tinctly 
  margined 
  behind, 
  without 
  spines 
  or 
  denticles. 
  Legs 
  long, 
  

   slender 
  ; 
  basitarsus 
  of 
  each 
  leg 
  longer 
  than 
  following 
  tarsal 
  segments 
  

   combined; 
  last 
  three 
  segments 
  of 
  each 
  tarsus 
  each 
  no 
  longer 
  than 
  

   broad. 
  Wing 
  slender, 
  almost 
  four 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  wide; 
  discal 
  cell 
  

   roughly 
  diamond-shaped 
  with 
  basal 
  and 
  apical 
  angles 
  truncated, 
  un- 
  

   usually 
  large, 
  its 
  transverse 
  diagonal 
  about 
  half 
  wing 
  width 
  ; 
  stigma 
  

   short, 
  sclerotized; 
  stem 
  of 
  R, 
  and 
  vein 
  R2+3 
  each 
  short 
  and 
  forming 
  

   part 
  of 
  stigma; 
  r-m 
  present; 
  II2+S 
  arising 
  slightly 
  behind 
  r-m; 
  E.* 
  

   erect 
  short. 
  

  

  