58 STRAXIOMYID^E. 



more than basal half of front metatarsus, and the hind metatarsus 

 wholly, and most of the succeeding joints brownish orange; 

 pubescence of legs black. Winys uniformly rather dark brown, a 

 little lighter at base and darker about the stigma ; halteres pale 

 dull orange. 



Length, 9 min. 



Described from a unique specimen (genital organs missing) in 

 the Indian Museum from Kalhnpong, 600-4500 ft., Darjiliug 

 District, iv-v. 1915 (Gravely}. 



Genus STRATIOMYIA, Geo/. 



Stratiomys, Geofl'roy, Hist. d. Ins. ii, p. 475 (1704). * 



Stratiomys, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iv, p. 262 (1704); Meigen, Illig. 



Mag. ii, p. 265 (1803). 

 Stratiomyia, Macquart, Dipt. Exot. i, pt. 1, p. 179 (1838) ; Brunetti, 



Rec. Ind. Mus. i, p. 125 (1907). 

 Hoplomyia, Zeller, Isis, xi, p. 882 (recte 828) (1842). 

 Stratiotomi/ia, E. L. Arribalzaga, Bol. Acad. Nat. Cienc. Cordoba, 



iv, p. 128(1882). 



GENOTYPE, Musca cJiamceleon, L. (Europe) ; by designation of 

 Latreille, Consid. Gen. (1810). 



Head semicircular, face arched, postocular orbits thickened, 

 especially in $ ; proboscis comparatively small ; palpi small ; 

 eyes in d practically contiguous, the upper facets often much 

 larger than lower ones, wide apart in $ ; in both sexes either bare 

 or hairy, sometimes a sexual character. Antenna approximate at 

 base, diverging after 1st joint, which is very much longer 

 than 2nd ; 3rd joint elongate, cylindrical, bare, with live or six 

 anuulations (occasionally an annotation subdivided). Thorax sub- 

 quadrate, broader behind, pubescent ; scutellum two-spined. 

 Abdomen broader than thorax, slightly arched, subquadrate, 

 shoulders angular; whole doratim sparsely, moderately, or some- 

 what densely pubescent ; wings folded one above the other at 

 rest, lying within the side-margins of the abdomen ; genitalia 

 small. Leys moderately stout, shortly pubescent. Wings mainly 

 as in Odontomyia; 3rd vein forked, 4th vein terminations (three) 

 long, curved, nearly reaching wing-margin, the hindmost more or 

 less parallel with upper branch of 5th vein ; posterior cross- vein 

 present but sometimes small; anal cell closed near wing-margin; 

 alar squamae small, thoracic large and pubescent. 



llanje. World-wide except Au.-traliaand the Ethiopian Kegion. 



Life-history. Metamorphoses of more than one European species 

 known. Larvae fusil orm, broadest before the middle; known as 



* [In this work Geoffroy did not accept the binnry system of nomenclature 

 upon which all our modern zoological classification is based ; it has therefore 

 been ruled that all generic names therein proposed by him are just as invalid a 

 pre-Linnyean names. Tlie authorship of Stratiomys should thus be attributed 

 to Fabricius. Ei>.] 



