CONOPID FLIES — CAMRAS 109 



Material examined: Korea: Suigen, June 3, 1927, T. R. Gardner, 1 

 female, USNM. 



Conops Jlavipes Linne 



Conops flavipes Linne, Fauna Suecica, p. 1904, 1761. 



The specimen from Suifu lacks the fourth abdominal tergite, but 

 the fourth sternite is present beneath the third tergite. The Szechwan 

 specimens have the scutellum mainly yellow, but otherwise the males 

 agree with European specimens. 



In the female, the yellow band on the third abdominal segment is 

 separated in the center. This suggest Conops licenti Chen, but there 

 are some other differences in the description of licenti. 



Conops jozankeanus Matsumura also appears to be very similar, if 

 not the same, as this species. 



Material examined: Siberia: Okeanskaya, August 1923, Cockerell, 

 1 male, author's collection ex USNM; Smolenschina, Aug. 26, 1927, 

 Cockerell, 1 male, USNM. Szechwan: Suifu, alt. 1,000-1,500 ft., 

 June 1-21, 1928, D. C. Graham, 1 male, USNM; near Mupin, alt. 

 2-8,000 ft., July 1929, D. C. Graham, 1 male, USNM. Manchuria: 

 Yalhenya, Pin-chang Province, July 1-10, 1939, M. I. Nikitin, 1 

 female, author's collection, ex Steyskal. 



Conops thecoides, new species 



Male: Length 10 mm. Head yellow. Reddish brown vertical 

 stripe on front, widening above and below, divided by a yellow 

 vertical stripe in the center. Antennal prominence above, and 

 most of the facial grooves and keel black. Cheeks reddish posteriorly. 

 Vertex and adjacent occiput translucent yellow. Vestigial ocellar 

 tubercle present. Side of occiput yellow laterally, blackish centrally. 

 Antenna dark reddish brown, more blackish on third segment and 

 arista. Moderately long process on second arista! segment. Proboscis 

 black, nearly 1% times as long as head. 



Thorax black, faintly yellow pollinose on dorsum. Humeri and 

 scutellum entirely bright yellow. Metapleura yellow. Pleura partly 

 reddish, no pollinose stripe. Coxae mainly black, partly dark reddish. 

 Legs dark yellow, reddish on the femora. Middle third of posterior 

 femur diffusely blackish. Apical tarsal segments and tips of claws 

 blackish. Calypters bright yellow. Halteres bright yellow, dark 

 reddish brown at base. Wings hyaline, with dark brown band from 

 costa to fifth vein. Submarginal cell paler apically. Pale mark at 

 center of anterior margin of first posterior cell. Discal cell entirely 

 dark. 



Abdomen black, indistinctly yellow pollinose. Orange yellow 

 band on distal margins of first to fourth segments. This band is 

 very narrow on the first segment except at the sides. Sternite 



