42 STRATIOMYID^E. 



17. Eudmeta marginata, F. (PL I, fig. 17.) 



Hermetia marginata, Fabricius, Syst. Antl. p. 63 (1805). 



Eudmeta maryinata, Wiedemanu, Auss. Zweifl. ii, p. 43, pi. ix, fig. 4 



(1830) ; Macquart, Dipt. Exot. Supp. iii, p. 16, pi. i,ng. 9 (1848) ; 



Brimetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. i, p. 123 (1907); de Meijere, Tijd. v. 



Ent. liv, p. 262 (1911) ; Kertesz, Ann. Mus. Hung, vii, p. 388 



(1909). 



Hermetia cingidaris, Guerin, Voy. Coq., Zool. ii, 2, p. 290 (1830). 

 Hermetia singularis, Gu6rin, Icon. Regn. An. vii, p. 543, pi. 98, 



fig. 1 (1835). 

 Toxocera limbiventris, Macquart, Dipt. Exot. Supp. iv, p. 45, pi. v, 



fig. 3 (1849). 



c? $ . Head : eyes in 3 contiguous for a considerable distance, 

 leaving a moderate-sized vertical triangle and small frontal 

 triangle ; upper facets very much larger than lower ; vertical 

 triangle wholly occupied by ocellar tubercle and brownish ocelli ; a 

 few brownish or greyish hairs ; frontal triangle very small, sbiniag 

 dark brown ; face dull brownish grey, M'ith white pubescence, two 

 small contiguous pale spots with a small orange longitudinal streak 

 below them, immediately below base of antennae ; the latter orange- 

 brown, 3rd joint with eight annulations, darker towards tips ; 

 underside of head blackish, with white pubescence ; proboscis 

 dark, with very large, brownish orange labella ; occiput black, 

 with whitish microscopic pubescence on upper part, a little longer 

 on lower part. In $ , frons moderately narrow, \ or g of head, 

 sides nearly parallel, brownish orange, nearly bare. Thorax rather 

 dull black, with short brownish pubescence on dorsum, more 

 whitish and sparser at sides ; a small callus on shoulder, joined to 

 an elongate stripe on lower margin of dorsum ending at suture ; 

 hind corners of dorsum with a similar callus, contiguous to an 

 elongate one immediately below, placed vertically ; a moderate- 

 sized oval spot on sternopleura and a subtriangular one just in 

 front of wing-base ; all these spots orange or yellowish (possibly 

 apple-green in life), and slightly variable in shape and extent ; 

 scutellum black, with a moderate-sized rounded pale yellow spot 

 at tip. Abdomen dark bluish black, microscopically pubescent, 

 slightly shining ; extreme side-margins orange-vellow (green in 

 life) ; vertex blackish. Legs all dark brown or blackish ; a little 

 soft pubescence behind, at least, front femora. Wings grey ; a 

 rather brown streak across the middle from the small brown 

 stigma to anal cell ; a large apical brown suffusion beginning 

 distinctly beyond discal cell ; halteres brownish yellow. 



Length, 11-13 mm. 



Described from five 6" c? and one $ in the Indian Museum 

 from Darjiling, 1000-3000 ft..vi. 1912; Pyinmana, Burma, vi. 1910 

 (H. L. Andrewes). The $ bears no locality. The specimens 

 appear to have been in spirit and are consequently unreliable for 

 descriptive purposes, especially in the matter of pubescence : but 

 they are undeniably E. manfinata. The species occurs in Singa- 

 pore, Java, Borneo, Amboina, and North-east Sumatra. 



