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Physocepliala pusilla (Meigen) 



Conops pusilla Meigen, Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten Europ- 

 aischen zweifliigeligen Insekten, vol. 4, p. 131, 1824. 



The second specimen listed is questionably referred here because 

 it is very dark and there is a trace of an apical spot on the wing. 

 However it is too small and slender for P. sinensis. 



Material examined: Shantung: Tsinan, May 27, 1922, A. P. Jacot, 

 1 female, USNM. Hopeh: Chao Yang, Aug. 10, 1923, A. P. Jacot, 

 1 female, author's collection ex USNM. 



Physocepliala melana, new species 



Female: Length 8 mm. Front and vertex dark yellowish. Black, 

 ish in middle of front, and at groove at anterior margin of vertex- 

 Face and cheeks yellow. Upper two thirds of facial groove and keel 

 black. Occiput black, paler below. Posterior orbit white pol- 

 linose. Antenna dark reddish yellow, blacker dorsally. First seg- 

 ment two and one half times as long as wide. Second antennal 

 segment three times length of first. Third segment one and one half 

 times length of first. Process on proximal segment of arista moder- 

 ate, as long as apical segment of arista. Proboscis dark, reddish 

 in middle, nearly two times length of head. 



Thorax black. Yellow pollinose pleural stripe. Yellow pollinose 

 areas near humeri on metapleura and on postnotum. Humeri and 

 narrow margin of posterior calli rufous. Scutellum entirely black. 

 Coxae dark reddish brown, yellow pollinose. Legs rufous, darker on 

 tarsi. Distal three fifths of posterior femur, except apex, black. 

 Claws black, pulvilli yellow. Calypters dark brownish yellow. 

 Halteres rufous, dark brown at base. 



Abdomen short and robust, mainly black. Narrow dark reddish 

 areas at junction of second and third segments and apical margins 

 of third to sixth segments. Faint white pollinose in part, with 

 gold pollinose areas on apical margin of third to sixth segments. 

 Theca shorter than wide. 



Type: Holotype, female, USNM 64485, Trang Bom, 30 miles 

 northwest of Saigon, Cochin China, Aug. 8, 1932, M. Poilane. 



This species is very close to P. limbipennis in coloration, but 

 structurally it is quite distinct. The abdomen is relatively short 

 and robust, and the theca is very short and wide. This short wide 

 abdomen is one of the characters of Pseudophysocephala, but the head 

 in this species is normal. 



Physocepliala sinensis Krober 



Physocephala sinensis Krober, Ark. Zool., vol. 26, p. 15, 1933. 



This species does not have any specific color character to dis- 

 tinguish it from P. pusilla, as the apical spot on the wing is not always 



