322 SYEPHID^. 



CoNOPiN.E. The group consists mainl}' of the genus Ceria and its 

 alleged subgenera. Though most of the species are tropical, a 

 certain number extend to temperate regions. They are nearly 

 always yellow and black elongated flies of moderate or large size, 

 loviug the sunsliine, flowers and sweet-smelling plants. 



Genus CERIA, Fah: 



Ceria, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iv, p. 277 (1794). 



Cerioides, Rondani, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (2) viii, p. 211 (1850) ; 



de Meijere, Tijd. v. Ent. li, p. 192, notes and table of species 



(1908). 

 Sphiximo7-pha, Rondani, op. cit. p. 212. 

 Sphyximorpha, id.. Dipt. Ital. Prod, i, p. 55 (1856). 

 Spiximorpha, id., op. cit. ii, p. 12 (1857). 



Genotype, Musca conopsoides, L., by universal acceptance *. 



Bead broader than thorax ; eyes bare, closely contiguous for some 

 distance in 6 , wide apart m $ , in both sexes cut away sharply 

 on inner upper angle in front ; lower part of frons produced 

 soinewha.t, bearing the antennae ; face descending almost perpen- 

 dicularly from below antennae, curving outwards to form the large 

 obtuse lower part of head above upper mouth-border ; antennae 

 long, porrect, placed on a slender elongate peduncle (Ceria) or 



Fig. 71. — Ceria javava, Wied., 5- 



directly on the frons {Sjjlilximorpha) ; 1st joint cylindrical, 2iid 

 cylindrical, much narrower and considerably shorter, 3rd usually 

 as long as or longer than 2nd, elongate-oval, the tip pointed and 

 bearing a narrow pointed terminal style. Thorax elongate quad- 

 I'angular, with yellow spots ; scutellum semicircular. Abdomen 

 elongate, cylindrical, often punctate ; or narrowed at base, 



* I can trace no definite announcement of tills species as type, Fabricius in 

 1794 having mentioned no species, but coiiopsoides has always been accepted 

 as the genotype. 



