CLINOPERA. 307. 
9. Clinopera uber. _ . | 
Cyrtoneurina uber, Gigl.-Tos, Mem. R. Accad. Scienze di Torino, 2 ser. xlv. (sep.) p. 17°. | 
Hab. Mexico!, Dos Arroyos 1000 feet, Rincon 2800 feet, Chilpancingo 4600 feet, 
Amula 6000 feet, and Omilteme 8000 feet, all in Guerrero, Medellin and Atoyac in 
Vera Cruz, Teapa and Frontera in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 
A large series of specimens of both sexes, many of which agree perfectly with the 
description. ‘The ground-colour is variable: usually cinereous, but often more yellow 
or ochraceous. In some of the specimens the knees, especially of the front pair, or 
even the front tibie, are rufous. The basal joints of the antenne are usually 
infuscate. | | 
This species may perhaps be identical with Anthomyia gemina, Wiedem. (Aussereur. 
zweifl. Ins. ii. p. 486). Wiedemann’s description agrees tolerably well, though there 
is no mention of the slight curvature of the fourth vein, on account of which the apical 
cell is a little narrower at its termination. However, as nothing is said about the 
colour of the palpi in Anthomyia yemina, the description is equally applicable to 
Clinopera digramma (no. 5, infra), which is nearly allied to C. uber, differing from it 
especially in the colour of the palpi, these organs being black in C. wber and yellow in 
C. digramma. According to Jaennicke (Neue exot. Dipteren, p. 65), Anthomyta 
gemina, Wiedem., probably belongs to the genus Spilogaster. 
3. Clinopera hieroglyphica, sp.n. ¢ 9. (Tab. VII. fig. 23, 9.) 
Cinereous ; thorax anteriorly ochraceous; abdomen yellow, with blackish markings ; antenne yellow ; palpi 
and legs black. 
Length 4-5°5 millim. 
Face, cheeks, and sides of the front white ; frontal band of the ? forming a double stripe. Antenne yellow ; 
arista black, thickened at the base, long-plumose. Proboscis and palpi black. Thorax before the 
transverse suture pale ochraceous, without stripes, behind it blackish, posteriorly cinereous ; humeral 
tubercles and the cicatrix beneath them yellowish; pleure and scutellum cinereous. Abdomen yellow; 
base of the first segment blackish ; the black markings on the second and third segments consisting of two 
rather broad dorsal stripes, reaching neither the anterior nor the posterior border and separated in the 
middle by a narrow line of the ground-colour; the stripes are posteriorly united with a cross-band, which 
laterally is enlarged forwards, but does not cover the hind margins of the segments ; along these margins 
is a row of black points, being the roots of hairs; anal segment with blackish reflecting spots. Legs 
black ; the knees of the front pair rufous. Tegule and halteres yellowish. Wings greyish-hyaline, in 
the ¢ sometimes with a brownish tinge along the costa. 
Hab: Mexico, Tierra Colorada in Guerrero, Teapa and Frontera in Tabasco (H. H. 
Smith). 
Several specimens of both sexes. One of the male specimens differs from the others 
in having the palpi yellow; but as the palpi show a tendency to become paler in some 
of them, I regard it as a simple variety. 
