638 STATE BOAKD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Family STRATIOMYIDiE. 



Known as " soldier flies " from their yellow bands and stripes. Usually they 

 are somewhat depressed or even much flattened, especially the abdomen, over 

 which the wings are laid flat and overlapping each other. The mouth parts are 

 developed for lapping only, and the adults are always found among flowers. 

 The antennae vary in shape, and may be short or of quite moderate length ; but 

 always the third joint is compound and often has an arista. 



The larvae vary greatly in habit, from predatory to feeders upon excrement, 

 living or dead vegetable matter, on land or in water : Some of them have been 

 even found in salt or alkaline water. 



None are of economic importance. 



ALLOGNOSTA O. S. 



A. fuscitarsis Say. Anglesea, V, 27, Newark, VI, 15 ( Jn), Caldwell (Cr), 



New Brunswick (Sm). 

 A. obscuriventris Loew. Anglesea, V, 30 ( W), Westville, VI, 15 (Jn), 



Ocean Co., V (Sm). 



BERIS Latr. 

 B. viridis Say. Ocean Co., V, New Brunswick (Sm). 



SARGUS Fabr. 





S. decorus Say. Newark, VI, 14, Jamesburg, VII, 4 (Jn), Palisades (Love)> 

 Caldwell (Cr). 



S. elegans Loew. Caldwell, (Cr). 



S. viridis Say. Clementon, V, 30. 



S. cseruleifrons Johns. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap, VII, 12. 



S. cuprarius Linn. Over fifty specimens of this European species were taken 

 along Second River, near Newark, VI, 12-14, 1892 : one specimen, Cald- 

 well, VI, 10, 1892 (Cr). 



PTECTICUS Loew. 



P. testaceus Fabr. New Brunswick, VIII, 21 (Sm), Westville, VII, 2, Dunn- 



field, VII, 15, Riverton, VII, 16. 

 P. similis Will. Riverton, VII, 2, Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap, VII, 11. 

 P. sackenii Will. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap, VII, 8, 11, Westville, VIII, 8, 



Riverton, VI, 20, VII, 3. 



MICROCHRYSA Loew. 



M. polita Linn. Merchantville, VII, 19, Newark, V (Jn), New Brunswick 



(Sm). 



