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present. However, this series is larger and more robust, and the 

 abdomen is more club shaped, so that the specimens are readily 

 separable from pusilla. 



Material examined: Szechwan: Suifu, 1,000-1,500 ft., June 1-21, 

 1928, July 1929, D. C. Graham, 1 with abdomen missing, 1 male, 

 USNM and author's collection; Suifu to Hongya, 1,000-1,450 ft., 

 June 15-21, 1929, D. C. Graham, 1 male, 1 female, USNM; Chung- 

 king, 1-2,000 ft., May 6-27, 1930, D. C. Graham, 1 male, author's 

 collection ex USNM; Yao-Gi, 4-8,000 ft., July 3, 1929, D. C. Graham, 

 1 male, author's collection ex USNM. Hupeh: Hsiang Shan, 1 

 female, USNM. Chekiang: Hangchow, June 27, 1927, July 15, 1927, 

 C. Y. Wong, 2 females, USNM and author's collection. Kiangsu: 

 Penniu, Aug. 15, 1925, C. Y. Wong, 1 male, USNM. Hopeh: 

 Peking, August 1921, 1 male, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



Physocephala bipartita (Doleschall) 



Conops bipartita Doleschall, Natuurk. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 17 (1858- 

 59), p. 100, 1858. 



This species has previously been recorded from Java, Sumatra, 

 Philippines, Molluccas, and Celebes. 



Material examined: Malaya: 16 miles north of Kuala Lumpur, 

 Selangor, Malaya, March 1949, R. Traub, B. Insoll, 1 female, USNM. 



Physocephala elongata, new species 



Male: Length 9% mm. Vertex, front, and face dark yellow. 

 Blackish in middle at junction of vertex and front. Black on front 

 forming an indistinct midline. Black above base of antenna extend- 

 ing indistinctly to upper part of face. Large black mark in middle 

 of facial grooves including that part of the keel. Occiput 3 T ellowish 

 black, paler below. Postorbitals yellowish white pollinose. An- 

 tenna nearly blackish on ventral and medial surfaces. First segment 

 four times as long as wide. Second segment nearly 2% times the length 

 of first. Third segment nearly 1% times length of first. Arista with 

 elongated process on proximal segment as long as distal segment. 

 Proboscis mainly yellowish, 2% times length of head. Head nearly 

 twice as high as long. Shiny triangular area at posterior margin of 

 eye large and prominent. 



Thorax dull black. Humeri and parts of pleura dark yellow. 

 Yellow white pollinose pleural stripe, and pollinose area medial to 

 humeri and on postnotum. Coxae reddish black, white pollinose. 

 Legs dark yellow. Blackish above on femora, forming an indistinct 

 subbasal ring. Tarsi darker. Pulvilli and claws, except black tips, 

 dark yellow. Wing with dark pattern from costa to third vein 

 extending to apex. Basal half of first posterior cell dark, remainder 



