30 STRATIOMYIDJE. 



contiguous in c? for a long distance ; frons moderately broad in 

 $ , wider at vertex ; proboscis and palpi very short. Antennae 

 elongate, cylindrical, longer than head (in type-species); 1st joint 

 twice as long as 2nd, 3rd three times length of first two together 

 (in indica), indistinctly annulated. Thorax elliptical, wider behind, 

 rather flattened ; scutellntn nearly semicircular, with four spines. 

 Abdomen elliptical, slightly broader but barely longer than thorax ; 

 genitalia inconspicuous. Leys short, slender. Wings rather 

 narrow, a little longer than abdomen, venation normal. 

 Range. The Orient and West Africa. 



10. Tinda javana, Macq. (PI. I, figs. 7, 8.) 



Berisjavana, Macquart, Dipt. Exot. i, 2, p. 188 (1838). 

 Tinda javana, de Meij. Tijd. v. Knt. 1, p. 232, liv, p. 273. 

 Biastes indicus, Walker, lus. Saund.Dipt. i, p. 81, pi. iii, tifr. 8 (1851). 

 Tinda modi/era, Walker, Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. iv, p. 101 (I860;. 

 Phyllophora bispinosa, Thomson, Eug-. Resa, Dipt. p. 4-54 (1869). 

 Tinda indica, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. i, p. 92 (1907). 



J $ . Head with eyes contiguous in <$ for greater part of distance 

 from vertex to antennae, leaving a very small vertical triangle 

 wholly occupied by the black ocellar triangle and a few short 

 brown hairs ; upper facets much larger than lower ones : frons 

 shining black, nearly wholly occupied by two spots composed of 

 short snow-white pubescence ; face whitish grey, the colour 

 spreading more or less along inner lower orbits of eyes ; rest of 

 lower part of head black; vertex black, no postocular margin 

 whatever ; proboscis yellowish ; palpi yellowish, with large spatu- 

 late tips. Antennal 1st and 2nd joints yellowish, 1st twice as 

 long as 2nd, cylindrical ; 2nd cup-shaped, both with sparse short 

 stiff black hairs ; 3rd fully two and a half times as long as 1st 

 and 2nd together, bare, yellowish at base ; remainder blackish ; 

 only a few basal annulations well defined. In $ , frons at vertex 

 5 to i width of head, narrowing rapidly to a little above antennae, 

 where it is less than half as wide, black and slightly shining ; 

 postocular margin very broad, bare, slightly shining. Thorax 

 black, rather closely punctate, hardly shining, with tomentose 

 yellowish pubescence on dorsumj sides more or less similarly 

 clothed ; humeri tipped with brownish orange ; a very narrow 

 concolorous ridge thence to wing-base. Scutellum similar to 

 thoracic dorsum ; hind margin yellowish, with four rather short 

 yellowish spines. Abdomen black, barely shining, closely punc- 

 tate ; venter similar ; genitalia small, yellowish, ending in a 

 small cylindrical tube in d and two finger-like lamellae in $ . 

 Legs all yellow ; last tarsal joint brownish. Wings grey, anterior 

 margin rather darker ; stigma distinct, pale brown ; halteres 

 brownish yellow. 



Length, 5|-6 mm. 



Described from a long series in the Indian Museum and the 

 Pusa Collections : Chapra, Bengal, often in rotting plantain stems, 

 16. iii. 1917, 29. iii. 1908, 27.iv. 1913 (Hoivlett), 28. v. 3913, 11. v. 

 1908, v. 1907 ; Katihar, 8-9. iii. 1909 (Paiva); Calcutta, 2. iii. 1907, 



