36 STRATIOMYIDjE. 



1 have not seen the male with certainty, and the following notes 

 are from Gerstaecker s description of that sex. Very distinct from 

 2 , much smaller. Head considerably broader than thorax, deep 

 black, with one white hair-spot above antennae ; the latter with 2nd 

 scapul joint and first two annulations of 3rd joint reddish yellow, 

 rest black. Thorax with ground-colour dark blackish brown, side- 

 margins and two very indistinct median stripes of emerald-green 

 scales. Scutellar spines, especially middle pair, much longer than 

 in $ and mainly reddish yellow. Abdomen deep black, with paler 

 sides, white spots as in $ , but posterior ones absent. Winys as 

 in $ , pale spot on inner border absent. 



A c? from Coorg, S. India, in the Pusa collection, may be this 

 species: also a 3 from Pashok, Darjiling, 2000ft. 11. vi. 191ft 

 (//. C. Hartleys), though neither of them agrees quite with 

 Gerstaecker' s description. 



Genus STRATIOSPHECOMYIA, Brun. 

 Stratiospliecomyia, Brimetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ix, p. 261 (1913). 



GENOTYPE, Stratiospliecomyia variegata, Brun. 



Head flattened, semicircular, narrower than greatest width of 

 thorax, nearly bare ; occiput not at all projecting behind eyes ; 

 ocelli on small, very distinct prominence, equidistant ; eyes in tf 

 quite contiguous for a moderate distance, hinder and lower facet* 

 distinctly smaller than anterior and upper ones. Proboscis thick, 

 apparently moderately long but mainly concealed within the- 

 mouth-opening, probably producible; palpi elongate, a little 

 pubescent, apparently of one joint only. Antennae elongate^ 

 nearly filiform, two-thirds as long as head and thorax together ; 

 1st joint about twice as long as broad, 2nd about half this length ; 

 flagellum with eight distinct annulations, subequal, except the 

 last which is rather longer and pointed. Thorax approximately 

 oval, widest at level of wings, only slightly arched ; microscopically 

 pubescent here and there. Scutellum of moderate size, semi- 

 circular or subtriangular, unspined. Abdomen with a little soft 

 pubescence towards sides at base, apparently 5-segmented, the 

 emargination between the 2nd and 3rd segments extremely in- 

 definite, possibly these forming but a single segment ; the 1st very 

 short, transverse, 2nd as wide as 1st at base, thence suddenly 

 narrowing at half its length to cylindrical form, the 3rd at base 

 as wide as tip of 2nd, rapidly widening to tip; the abdomen 

 widening to tip of 4th segment, thence rapidly narrowing, the tip- 

 rounded, the 2nd to the 5th segments subequal in length. 

 Genitalia exposed, fairly complex, consisting of a dorsal plate and 

 a pair of two-jointed hairy claspers, with apparently at least one 

 other pair of appendages. Leys quite slender, moderately long,, 

 minutely pubescent ; hind legs longer and slightly stouter, hind 

 femora barely thickened towards tips, hind metatarsi distinctly 



