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077. 

 MYOPA FULVIPES. 



Order Diptera. Fam. Conopsidai. 



Type of the Genus, Conops buccata Linn. 



MyoPa Fab., Me'ig., Macq., Curt. — Stomoxys Fab. — Asilus Geoff. — 

 Conops Linn. 



Antenna attached to a prominence at the upper part of the face, 

 short, porrected, approximating at the base, 5-jointed, basal 

 joint short, cup-shaped, and very bristly above, 2nd the largest, 

 obovate and bristly, sometimes more elongated and clavate, 3rd 

 much smaller, subovate or globose, 4th inserted on the back of 

 the 3rd, somewhat elongate-ovate, 5th a short stout seta, indi- 

 stinctly pubescent (3). 



Trophi, excepting the Palpi, concealed in the labium. 

 Lab)-um half as long as the 1st joint of the labium, stout, hol- 

 low and horny (1 b). 



Tongue much longer, very slender, and acute (r). 

 Maxilla ? very short, subovate, attached nearer to the base of 

 the labrum than of the palpi (e) . 



Palpi as long as the labrum, clavate, pubescent, with a few very 

 long bristles (/). 



Labium horny, filiform, geniculated near the base and middle, 

 basal joint long stout and hollow above, 2nd as long and bent 

 close under the 1st in repose, and terminated by 2 long ovate 

 lobes, with a few hairs on the sides {g). 

 Head rather large, crown subtrigonate, the forehead narrow and de- 

 clining, face orbicular, the cheeks prominent; clypeus concave (2 the 

 profile): eyes oval, placed on each side of the crown, not large but 

 naked: ocelli 3, minute, forming a compact triangle on the crown. 

 Thorax as broad as the head, subquadrate, the angles gibbose : scutel 

 transverse, semiovate. Abdomen appearing more or less ovate above, 

 but actually elongated and attenuated, a large portion of the apex 

 being incurved, with a strong process on the underside of the 5th 

 joint in the male {1 ^the profile). Wings ample, incumbent and 

 parallel, the \st posterior cell open at the apex : halteres capitate. 

 Legs nearly equal, short and stout : thighs thick : tibiae compressed, a 

 little curved: tarsi depressed, 5-jointed, basal joint oblong, 2 fol- 

 lowing more or less bilobed, 5th short, jjyriform : claws strong, 

 curved : ])ulvilli large, bilobed. 



FuLviPES Desvoidy. — Curt. Guide, Gen. 1264. 9. 

 In the Author's Cabinet. 



Myopa is a pretty genus allied to Conops (pi. 377), from which 

 however it is veiy distinct: the 1st posterior cell being open in 

 the former and pedicled at the apex in the latter group, the 

 antennae are much longer and very differently formed in Co- 

 nops, and the labium is only geniculated near the base. 



