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Material examined: Manchuria: Yalhenya, Pin-chang Province, 

 Aug. 7-12, 1939, M. I. Nitkin, 1 female, author's collection ex Stey- 

 skal. Siberia: Kongaus, August 1923, Cockerell, 1 female, USNM. 



Siniconops elegans Chen 



Siniconops elegans Chen, Notes d'entomologie chinoise, vol. 6, p. 198, 1939. 

 Abrachyglossum wui Ouchi, Journ. Shanghai Sci. Inst., sec. 3, vol. 4 (1939) p. 

 195, 1940. 



The males of this species differ from the males of the other species 

 examined by having the apical abdominal segment more elongated 

 dorsalty, and more pointed (see illustration of wui Ouchi, ibid., pi. 

 17). 



Material examined: Fukien: Amoy, 1 male, USNM; Yenping, July 

 19-Sept. 11, 1917, 2 males and 5 females, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, and 

 author's collection. 



Siniconops curtirostris (Krbber) 



Conops celebensis (Meijere) Krober, Arch. Naturg., vol. 81, Abt. A, Heft 7, p. 52, 

 1915 (C. curtirostris Krober cited as manuscript name on p. 53, under cele- 

 bensis) . 



Conops curtirostris Krober; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 11, vol. 5, p. 219, 233, 1940 

 (previously misidentified as celebensis). 



This species is very close to $. elegans, but the front is almost entirely 

 black, and the abdomen has less yellow. 



Material examined: Sikkim, 1 female, USNM, labeled celebensis 

 Krober, determined 1914 (=cotype Conops curtirostris). 



Siniconops nigripes (Krober) 



Conops nigripes Krober, Ent. Mitt. Berlin, vol. 2, p. 278, 1913. 



Similar to S. elegans but paler, wing more diffusely yellowish, and 

 humeri and scutellum rufous. 



Material examined: Formosa, Sauter, 5 males and 5 females, 

 author's collection ex Hungarian Mus. 



Siniconops species 



The specimen examined is badly crushed and not suitable as the 

 basis of a new species. Superficially it is very similar to $. nigripes, 

 but the wing is less yellowish and the general coloration averages 

 darker. The genitalia are mainly black, and the third antennal seg- 

 ment is proportionately longer. The junction between the subcostal 

 and first vein (sc-r) is distal to the anterior crossvein (r-m). 



Material examined: Szechwan: Near Mupin, 2-8,000 ft., June 28, 

 1929, D. C. Graham, 1 male, USNM. 



Siniconops splendens, new species 



Male: Length 16 mm. Front dark reddish, surrounded by velvety 

 black. Vertex dark reddish and shiny. Ocellar tubercle blackish with 



