GG steatiomyidjE. 



Odontomyia siibmutica, Brunetti, he. cit. p. 130 (1907). 

 Oxycera indica, Brunetti, loc. cit. p. 119 (1907). 

 ? O. pusilla, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iv, p. 271 (1794j. 



S 2- Head with eyes in 3 microscopically pubescent, barely 

 contiguous at nearest approach, and for a very short distance onlv 

 gradually separating to vertex ; frons shining black, with yellowish 

 hairs ; ocelli yellowish ; frontal triangle with yellowish-grey 

 pubescence ; face and underside of head yellowish, with a little 

 whitish pubescence; proboscis large, black; antennae with 1st 

 joint distinctly longer than 2nd, orange-yellow, 3rd brownish, 

 4-annulated, tip black; occiput black. In $, whole head, in- 

 cluding the rather broad postocular orbits, yellow or orange- 

 yellow ; a broad shining black band across vertex from eye to eye, 

 sometimes with the appearance of being formed of three lara-e 

 contiguous spots ; a pair of large oval shining black spots on frons 

 placed transversely and slightly diagonally ; a pair of similar 

 smaller rounded spots below level of antennae and just below the 

 larger ones. Thorax black, with very short golden or greyish 

 pubescence ; sides black, a large pale yellow oblong spot below 

 shoulders, another in front of wing-base, the two spots generally 

 connected above ; a third yellow spot below wing-base. Scutellum 

 yellow, base black, spines generally extremely small, occasionally 

 normal in size. Abdomen of <$ normally yellowish, with a large 

 rounded or somewhat diamond-shaped spot spread over middle of 

 first two segments ; a spot on middle of 3rd segment from anterior 

 to hind margin, narrowed behind ; on anterior margin towards 

 sides of 2nd segment, a small spot ; a similar larger one on each 

 side ot 3rd segment ; on 4th and 5th segments a broad band on 

 anterior margin filling about half the surface, the two bands con- 

 nected by a short median stripe ; all the above markings black. 

 In some males the marks are reduced to a dorsal row of small 

 detached rounded or angular spots ; in one tf the abdomen is 

 wholly yellowish except for a single small black spot on 2nd seg- 

 ment. In $ a large spot similar to that of the J spread over 

 middle of 1st and 2nd segments, with a small spot towards each 

 side iii a line with it; sometimes the three spots more or less 

 united by a short connecting stripe ; in one $ the spots were re- 

 placed by a definite uninterrupted broad band ; abroad black band 

 on anterior margin of 3rd, 4th, and 5th segments nearly fillino- the 

 sufraces and sometimes united in the median line by a dorsal 

 stripe. Venter in both sexes mainly yellowish. Legs brownish 

 yellow ; femora with a broad median dark brown band ; hind tibiae 

 with a similar band on apical half, generally leaving the tip pale - 

 tips of tarsi barely darker. Wings absolutely colourless, anterior 

 veins and stigma very pale yellow ; discal cell unusually small, 

 occasionally larger in individuals ; discal cell veinlets almost 

 invisible ; halteres yellowish. 



Length, 4-5 mm. 



Described from several specimens of each sex, including types of 



