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Conops (Asiconops) kulinicus Chen 



Conops (A.) kulinicus Chen, Notes d'entomologie chinoise, vol. 6, p. 180, 1939. 



The specimen examined does not have the sixth abdominal segment 

 gold pollinose, but it is rather "worn." The humerus is distinctly 

 rufous, rather than a little reddish as described for kulinicus. 



Material examined: Szechwan: Near Mupin, 2-8,000 ft., July 1929, 

 D. C. Graham, 1 female, USNM. 



Conops (Asiconops) chinensis, new species 



Male: Length 17 mm. Front and vertical swelling dark rufous. 

 Sides of vertex and adjacent front blackish brown. Frontofacial 

 mark velvety black. Upper part of antennal prominence black. Face 

 yellow, gold pollinose except for antennal prominence. Black at 

 junction of facial and oral keel. Occiput dark reddish, partly blackish 

 centrally. Yellow pollinose posterior orbit extending across back of 

 vertex. Antenna dark reddish to black, rufous on proximal half of 

 third segment. First segment four times as long as wide. Second 

 segment nearly two times length of first. Third segment as long as 

 first. Second segment of arista without definite process. Third 

 segment of arista nearly three times length of first and second com- 

 bined. Proboscis black, reddish on distal ventral half, about 1% times 

 length of head. 



Thorax black, faintly yellow pollinose including a pleural stripe. 

 More distinct yellow pollinose areas medial to the humeri anterior 

 to the transverse suture, above base of wings, anterior to scutellum, 

 upper half of postnotum, and on the metapleura. Reddish on humeri, 

 calli, and tip of scutellum. Anterior coxae mainly rufous, posterior 

 mainly black. Trochanters rufous. Anterior femur mainly rufous; 

 middle femur blackish dorsally and on basal half; posterior femur 

 black on basal two thirds. Tibiae rufous, blackish basally. Tarsi 

 black, rufous on first segment, especially on posterior tarsus. Pul- 

 villi and claws, except black tips, yellow. Wings faint yellowish 

 brown hyaline, brown between first and third vein and vena spuria, 

 and along fifth vein. Costal and basal cells yellow. Calypters 

 yellow. Halteres yellow, blackish on club and base. 



Abdomen black, very narrow reddish margin on third, fourth, and 

 fifth segments and on the genitalia. Gold pollinose distal margins on 

 all segments, the sixth nearly entirely gold pollinose. 



Type: Holotype, male, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Yenping, Fukien, 

 June 14, 1917. 



This species is related to what I have identified as C. tristis, but the 

 front is predominantly rufous, and the humeri, calli, and apex of 

 scutellum are rufous. It agrees with tristis in having an entirely 



