TACHINIDAE OF ORIENTAL REGION 85 



Eloceria delecta (Meigen) of Europe is a parasite of the centipede Lithobius forficatus 

 Gervais. 



Key to Oriental Genera of ELOCERIINI 



1 Arista thickened on almost all its length, and with both basal segments greatly 

 elongate (arista therefore with a tripartite appearance as in Text-fig. 44). Palpi 

 present. Eyes with very fine short sparse hairs [careful examination needed as 

 eyes appearing bare]. Third antennal segment much widened at the apex and 

 with the anterior (dorsal) corner very sharp (Text-fig. 44). [$: femora and abdomen 

 almost all dark brown or blackish in ground colour. <J colouring not known.] 



TRICHACTIA Stein 



- Arista thickened only on its basal half, and with the two basal segments not elongate 

 (therefore without a tripartite appearance). Palpi absent. Eyes bare. Third 

 antennal segment not widened apically and with both apical corners evenly 

 rounded. [<£: femora and abdomen largely yellow. 9 colouring not known] 



ELOCERIA Robineau-Desvoidy 



Tribe MACQUARTIINI 



In the Old World this tribe is predominantly Palaearctic and African, but an 

 undescribed M acquartia-like species has been seen from Tasmania and it is probable 

 that the Macquartiini are represented in temperate parts of Australia. The tribe 

 is apparently absent from the Oriental Region proper and is included in the present 

 work only because two Palaearctic species of Macquartia Robineau-Desvoidy extend 

 their range into the extreme northern Himalayan fringe of India and into Szechwan. 

 The characters of the tribe have recently been listed by Mesnil (1972 : 1092) under 

 the name Macquartiina. 



Macquartia tessellum (Meigen) is here recorded for the first time from India, 

 on the basis of two female specimens in the BMNH collection. These specimens 

 were collected on snow at an altitude of 4200-4260 metres [14 000-14 200 feet] 

 in the Rhotang Pass, Himachal Pradesh. Their identification has been kindly 

 confirmed by Dr B. Herting. 



Villeneuve (1937a) described two species from southern China and Tibet that 

 he placed in Macquartia (viz. annularis and gymnops), but Mesnil (1972 : 1093) 

 has transferred these species to the genus Gibsonomyia Curran in the Phyllomyini 

 (q.v.). 



The hosts of the Macquartiini are larval Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) but there 

 are no host records from the Oriental Region as covered by this work. 



Tribe MINTHOINI 



The characters of this tribe have been outlined by Mesnil (1973(2) and Crosskey 

 (1973ft) and need not be repeated here. It should be noted, however, that my 

 definition of the group will require slight modifications if the genera Dolichocoxys 

 Townsend and Austrophasiopsis Townsend are accepted as minthoines (they are here 

 placed in this tribe for reasons adduced later) ; since noting that Minthoxia Mesnil 



