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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Head 
  retracted 
  within 
  the 
  prothorax, 
  only 
  the 
  blunt 
  tips 
  of 
  the 
  antennae 
  

   showing 
  at 
  the 
  sides. 
  

  

  Color 
  greenish 
  brown, 
  darker 
  toward 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  dorsum 
  of 
  

   the 
  penultimate 
  segment, 
  paler 
  on 
  the 
  ventral 
  surface, 
  and 
  most 
  trans- 
  

   parent 
  on 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  body. 
  

  

  Each 
  of 
  the 
  middle 
  abdommal 
  segments 
  has 
  a 
  secondary 
  transverse 
  

   groove 
  at 
  two 
  thirds 
  its 
  length, 
  and 
  on 
  its 
  posterior 
  third 
  a 
  transverse 
  

   line 
  of 
  setigerous 
  tubercles, 
  from 
  which 
  another 
  line 
  extends 
  anteriorly 
  

   at 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  dorsum; 
  the 
  seta 
  at 
  the 
  posterior 
  end 
  of 
  this 
  lateral 
  

   row 
  is 
  much 
  longer 
  than 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  setae. 
  The 
  yellow 
  color 
  on 
  

   these 
  setigerous 
  ridges 
  forms 
  the 
  basis 
  of 
  the 
  color 
  pattern, 
  which 
  con- 
  

   sists 
  elsewhere 
  of 
  multitudinous 
  spots 
  that 
  are 
  mainly 
  arranged 
  sym- 
  

   metrically 
  in 
  pairs. 
  

  

  Anal 
  prominence 
  pale 
  yellowish, 
  bearing 
  at 
  its 
  sides 
  three 
  pairs 
  of 
  

   similar, 
  equal 
  appendages, 
  each 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  greatest 
  diameter 
  

   of 
  the 
  body. 
  The 
  respiratory 
  disk 
  bears 
  three 
  pairs 
  of 
  marginal 
  lobes 
  or 
  

   teeth, 
  and, 
  between 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  lowermost 
  or 
  ventral 
  pair 
  and 
  the 
  

   anal 
  prominence, 
  a 
  conspicuous, 
  setigerous 
  tubercle. 
  The 
  six 
  marginal 
  

   lobes 
  are 
  all 
  blunt 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  where 
  they 
  bear 
  a 
  few, 
  fragile 
  hairs, 
  and 
  

   are 
  covered 
  except 
  on 
  the 
  posterior 
  face 
  with 
  a 
  close, 
  brownish 
  

   pubescence. 
  Paired 
  black 
  lines 
  extend 
  up 
  the 
  posterior 
  face 
  of 
  each 
  lobe, 
  

   and 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  these 
  lines 
  there 
  is, 
  on 
  each 
  lobe 
  of 
  the 
  lowermost 
  

   pair, 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  black 
  spots. 
  Between 
  the 
  brown, 
  cup-shaped, 
  spiracular 
  

   openings 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  black 
  marks. 
  

  

  Saranac 
  Inn, 
  Little 
  Clear 
  creek, 
  July 
  and 
  August 
  1900. 
  

  

  Stratiomyia 
  badius 
  Walker 
  

  

  Plate 
  35, 
  fig. 
  1 
  

   1849 
  Stratiomyia 
  badius 
  Walker, 
  List 
  dipt. 
  ins. 
  Brit. 
  mus. 
  3 
  : 
  529 
  

   1849 
  Stratiomyia 
  ischiaca 
  (Harr.) 
  Walker, 
  List 
  dipt. 
  ins. 
  Brit. 
  mus. 
  

  

  3:529 
  

   1866 
  Stratiomyia 
  picipes 
  Loe 
  w, 
  Centur. 
  7 
  : 
  21 
  

  

  1878 
  Stratiomyia 
  picipes 
  Osteu-Sacken, 
  Cat. 
  Dipt. 
  N. 
  Am, 
  p. 
  48 
  (listed) 
  

   1895 
  Stra 
  t 
  o 
  my 
  ia 
  badius 
  Joliuson, 
  A.m. 
  ent. 
  soc. 
  Trans. 
  22:243 
  (a 
  full 
  

  

  description) 
  

   This 
  fine 
  soldier 
  fly 
  was 
  not 
  uncommon 
  along 
  the 
  railroad 
  track 
  east 
  

   of 
  the 
  Saranac 
  Inn 
  station 
  on 
  small 
  clumps 
  of 
  goldenrod 
  during 
  August. 
  

   On 
  August 
  12 
  Dr 
  O. 
  S. 
  Westcott 
  and 
  I 
  collected 
  a 
  few, 
  finding 
  them 
  asso- 
  

   ciated 
  with 
  the 
  wasp-mimicking 
  conopid, 
  Physocephala 
  furcil- 
  

  

  1 
  a 
  t 
  a 
  Will., 
  and 
  wasps 
  of 
  many 
  species 
  and 
  cerambycid 
  beetles. 
  The 
  flower 
  

   clumps 
  were 
  rather 
  few 
  and 
  small, 
  and 
  collecting 
  from 
  them 
  was 
  ex- 
  

   cellent. 
  

  

  A 
  single 
  stratiomyiid 
  larva 
  was 
  taken 
  during 
  the 
  season. 
  It 
  clearly 
  

   belonged 
  to 
  the 
  genus 
  Stratiomyia, 
  of 
  which 
  this 
  was 
  the 
  only 
  

   species 
  observed. 
  

  

  Larva. 
  Length 
  of 
  body 
  27.5 
  mm, 
  caudal 
  tuft 
  of 
  plumose 
  hairs 
  

  

  2 
  mm 
  additional; 
  greatest 
  diameter 
  (across 
  base 
  of 
  abdomen) 
  4 
  mm; 
  

   width 
  of 
  head 
  1.7 
  mm. 
  Color 
  uniform 
  blackish. 
  

  

  