CONOPID FLIES — CAMRAS HI 



long as wide. Second segment nearly twice as long as first. Third 

 segment as long as first. Arista yellow at base of apical segment; 

 process of second segment small. Proboscis 1% times length of head, 

 reddish on distal half. 



Thorax black; dorsum faintly yellow pollinose, more distinct 

 medial to the humeri, on metanotum, and on metapleura. Humeri 

 dark reddish black. Pleura faintly white pollinose with indistinct 

 pleural stripe. Coxae black, partly dark reddish. Femora black, 

 rufous dorsally and on apical ventral thud. Remainder of anterior 

 and middle legs missing. Posterior tibia rufous. Posterior tarsus 

 and tips of claws black. Remainder of claws and pulvilli yellow. 

 Wings brownish yellow hyaline, darker between first and third veins 

 and vena spuria, and along the fifth vein. Veins mainly black 

 apically, yellowish basally. Calypters yellow. Halteres reddish 

 yellow, dark reddish at base of stem. 



Abdomen entirely black. Faintly gold pollinose on sides of first 

 to third segments and indistinct narrow distal margin of fourth and 

 fifth segments. Sixth segment faintly yellowish white pollinose. 



Type: Holotype, male (author's collection), Niijima, Tokyo, Japan, 

 Aug. 30, 1953, R. Kano. 



This species is related to C. curtulus but is larger and darker, and 

 differs conspicuously by the absence of the distinct abdominal bands. 



Conops (Asiconops) curtulus Coquillett 



Conops curtulus Coquillett, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 21, p. 328, 1898. 



The type is a female according to Sabrosky. The brown punctures 

 on the face and checks are at the insertions of small hairs and are more 

 or less distinct in many species of Conops. Conops kuriensis Ouchi 

 is very suggestive of this species. 



Material Examined: Japan: Mitsukuri, 1 female paratype, USNM 

 4000, with second and third antennal segments missing. 



Conops (Asiconops) tristis Chen 



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



The specimens listed are referred here although they are not as 

 dark as the description of tristis. The face is not largely infuscated 

 in these specimens. 



The specimen from Szechwan has more pollen on the abdomen than 

 the one from Foochow, but no pale bands of ground color, except 

 slightly laterally on apex of fourth segment. 



Material examined: Fukien: Foochow, C. R. Kellogg, 1 female, 

 USNM. Szechwan: Mount Omei, 5-11,000 ft., Aug. 24-27, D. C. 

 Graham, 1 female, author's collection ex USNM. 



