﻿STRATIOMYIDAE 
  OF 
  SOLOMON 
  ISLANDS 
  — 
  JAMES 
  213 
  

  

  1944 
  (Beck) 
  ; 
  36 
  males, 
  20 
  females, 
  August 
  1944 
  to 
  June 
  1945 
  (Berg) 
  ; 
  

   2 
  males, 
  1 
  female, 
  Lunga 
  River 
  Valley, 
  September 
  16 
  and 
  October 
  3, 
  

   1944 
  (Laffoon). 
  Bougainville 
  Island: 
  1 
  male, 
  2 
  females, 
  1944, 
  

   and 
  April 
  10, 
  1944 
  (Downs) 
  ; 
  1 
  male, 
  1944 
  (Gurney) 
  ; 
  1 
  female, 
  

   Empress 
  Augusta 
  Bay, 
  March 
  1944 
  (Downs). 
  Florida 
  Island: 
  

   1 
  female 
  (Bohart). 
  

  

  LOPHOTELES 
  DENTATA, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Head 
  black. 
  Front 
  narrow, 
  at 
  vertex 
  0.25, 
  at 
  antennal 
  

   base 
  0.20, 
  head 
  width 
  ; 
  shining, 
  the 
  ©cellar 
  triangle 
  prolonged 
  into 
  a 
  

   tapering 
  glabrous 
  median 
  area, 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  fi'ont 
  coarsely 
  punctate; 
  

   facials 
  whitish 
  tomentose, 
  the 
  tomentum 
  extending 
  onto 
  lower 
  angles 
  

   of 
  front. 
  Pile 
  of 
  front 
  inconspicuous, 
  that 
  of 
  occiput 
  short, 
  scattered, 
  

   whitish. 
  Antennae 
  reddish; 
  flagellum 
  becoming 
  broadly 
  blackish 
  

   laterally 
  and 
  apically; 
  arista 
  black, 
  densely 
  black-pilose. 
  Thorax 
  

   wholly 
  black; 
  mesonotum 
  and 
  scutellum 
  with 
  abundant 
  but 
  

   short 
  and 
  inconspicuous 
  black 
  tomentum; 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  narrow 
  whitish 
  

   tomentose 
  stripes 
  on 
  disc 
  behind 
  suture; 
  each 
  lateral 
  margin 
  of 
  mesono- 
  

   tum, 
  before 
  the 
  suture, 
  with 
  a 
  rather 
  conspicuous 
  patch 
  of 
  silvery 
  

   tomentum. 
  Propleura 
  white-tomentose 
  ; 
  posterior 
  half 
  of 
  each 
  meso- 
  

   pleuron 
  with 
  a 
  conspicuous 
  band 
  of 
  silvery 
  tomentum; 
  sternopleura 
  

   and 
  metapleura 
  with 
  short, 
  scattered, 
  whitish 
  hairs; 
  other 
  pleural 
  

   areas 
  glabrous. 
  Scutellum 
  in 
  a 
  plane 
  with 
  mesonotum, 
  with 
  a 
  trans- 
  

   verse 
  preapical 
  groove 
  ; 
  apex 
  medially 
  produced 
  into 
  a 
  short 
  digitate 
  

   process, 
  which 
  is 
  about 
  one-fifth 
  length 
  of 
  scutellum 
  and 
  which 
  bears 
  

   two 
  setif 
  erous 
  dentulae 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  ; 
  margin 
  of 
  scutellum 
  with 
  six 
  to 
  

   eight 
  similar 
  setiferous 
  dentulae 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  this 
  process. 
  Wings 
  

   lightly 
  and 
  unformly 
  inf 
  umated 
  ; 
  venation 
  essentially 
  as 
  in 
  L. 
  plumula. 
  

   Stalk 
  of 
  halteres 
  yellow, 
  knob 
  blackish. 
  Legs 
  mainly 
  whitish 
  ; 
  middle 
  

   coxae 
  brownish 
  ; 
  front 
  femur, 
  except 
  broad 
  base 
  and 
  apex, 
  blackish 
  ; 
  

   middle 
  and 
  hind 
  femora 
  each 
  a 
  preapical 
  black 
  annulus. 
  Pile 
  sparse, 
  

   whitish. 
  Abdomen 
  1.33 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  ovate, 
  almost 
  parallel- 
  

   sided 
  on 
  segments 
  three 
  and 
  four; 
  wholly 
  black, 
  without 
  pollen, 
  and 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  short 
  inconspicuous 
  brownish 
  to 
  blackish 
  hairs. 
  Length, 
  

   3.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Holotype.—FemdLle, 
  Florida 
  Island 
  (Bohart), 
  U.S.N.M. 
  No. 
  58473. 
  

  

  LOPHOTELES 
  PLUMULA 
  Loew 
  

  

  Lophoteles 
  plumula 
  Loew, 
  Berl. 
  Ent. 
  Zeitscbr., 
  vol. 
  2, 
  p. 
  Ill, 
  1858. 
  

  

  Recorded 
  by 
  Curran 
  (1936) 
  from 
  Matema 
  and 
  Nupani 
  Reef 
  Islands, 
  

   of 
  the 
  Santa 
  Cruz 
  group. 
  

  

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