No. 5'] Parautic Muscidce from Brithh India, 17 



pairs of bristles directed backward, aud two oeellar bristles directed for- 

 ward ; behind these a bundle of long- hairs. Face and cheeks grey with 

 white reflections ; the face not carinated, the cheeks narrow; the lower 

 portion of the latter no more than a sixth part of the longitudinal 

 diameter of the eyes; facial ridges rather sharp, gradually divergent till 

 at some distance of the oral margin, where they become less distinct and 

 are somewhat curved inward ; vibrissEe inserted at the oral margin, 

 which is not at all prominent; under-side of the head with a row of 

 bristles ; occiput grey, the broad posterior orbits white. Eyes bare. 

 Antennse inserted on the median line of the eyes; first joint short; 

 second twice as long as the first, with one or two short bristles ; third 

 joint linear, one and a half time as long as the second, and reaching to 

 about the middle of the face; arista shortly plumose. Proboscis black ; 

 palpi rufous, slender. Thorax grey ; thoracic dorsum cinereous, with four 

 black stripes, the two median linear; pleurae with white reflections; 

 scutellum cinereous, blackish at the base. Abdomen elliptical, rufous- 

 yellow, slightly transparent ; on the first three segments a black dorsal 

 band, which is interrupted at the front borders of the second and third 

 segments, and enlarged at the hind border of the third ; the anal segment 

 is black with lateral spots of white reflection ; similar spots are also 

 to be seen on the sides of the preceding segment ; the second segment is 

 longer than the others; on the first segment is a pair of marginal 

 macroehsetse, on the second a pair of discal and a pair of marginal 

 macrochsetse, on the third a pair of discal and a row of marginal 

 macroehsetse ; the anal segment bears many macroehsetse. Legs black, 

 slender, the tarsi longer than the tibise outwardly with bristles of un- 

 equal length; foot-claws and pulvilli elongate, the pulvilli yellowish. 

 Tegulse pale yellow. Wings longer than the abdomen, grey at the 

 base and along the costa yellowish; apical cell opened just before the tip 

 of the wing ; third vein nearly straight ; small cross-vein in the middle of 

 the discal cell; curvation of the fourth vein rectangular; apical cross-vein 

 concave ; posterior cross-vein distinctly curved. 



A single male specimen, bred from a Lasiocampid caterpillar, which 

 is destructive to paddy in Sambalpur. 



The generic characters of the Mexican genus Calodexia, V. d. W. 

 (see Biologia Centr. Americana, Diptera, Volume II, p. 357) are in 

 general applicable to this fly ; it differs only from the three described 

 Mexican species, in having the second antennal joint longer and the third 

 joint shorter. 



