58 STRAXIOMYIDJE. 



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

 wholly, and most of the succeeding joints brownish orange ; 

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

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

 dull orange. 



Length, 9 mm. 



Described from a unique specimen (genital organs missing) in 

 the Indian Museum from Kalimpong, 600-4500 ft., Darjiling 

 District, iv-v. 1915 (Gravely). 



Genus STRATIOMYIA, Geoff. 



Stratiomys, Geoffroy, Hist. d. Ins. ii, p. 47 5 (1704). * 



Stratiomys, Eabricius, Ent. Syst. iv, p. 262 (1794) : Meigen, Illig. 



Mag. ii, p. 265 (1803). 

 Stratiomyia, Afaccpmrt, Dipt. Exot. i, pt. 1, p. 179 (1838) ; Brimetti, 



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

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

 Stratiotomyia, E. L. Arribalzaga, Bol. Acad. Nat. Cienc. Cordoba, 



iv, p. 128 (188-'). 



Genotype, Musca ehamcdeon, 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 S practically contiguous, the upper facets often much 

 larger than lower oues, wide apart in 5 ; in both sexes either bare 

 or hairy, sometimes a sexual character. Antennae approximate at 

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

 than 2ud ; 3rd joint elongate, cylindrical, bare, with five or six 

 annulations (occasionally an annulation subdivided). Thorax sub- 

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

 Abdomen broader than thorax, slightly arched, subquadrate, 

 shoulders angular; whole dorsum 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. Legs 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 ; po-derior cross-vein 

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

 alar squamae small, thoracic large and pubescent. 



Range. World-wide except Australia and the Ethiopian liegiom 



Life-history. Metamorphoses of more than one European species 



known. Larva? fusiform, broadest before the middle; known as 



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

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

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

 pre-Linnrean names. The authorship of Stratiomys should thus be attributed 

 to Fabricius. — Ed.] 



