coxops. 345 



6. Antenna) brownish-orange, especially tlie 



3rd joint; abdomen witiiout any black 

 colour (except sporadically in individuals); 

 basal half of wing yellowish, distal part 

 grev or pale blackish, the colours divided 

 vertically, always with a fairly obvious, [p. S-jO. 



large, darker, subapical cloud nubeculosuSy Big., 



Anteunfe wholly black ; abdomen mainly 

 black, hind margins of segments dusted 

 with golden-yellow in S ■, reddish-orange 

 on 2nd to 5th segments in $ ; wings 

 dark brown from costa to 3rd vein, 

 with 1st posterior cell more or less brown, 

 the line separating the shades being hori- 

 zontal ammJosus, Big., p. SolJ. 



7. Antenufe orange or yellowish ; metanotum 



brownish-orange, yellow-dusted; anterior 



half of winir pale brownish or blackish ; [p. 3o;5. 



abdomen without red ground-colour .... intermedins, sp. n., 

 Antennas almost w-holly black ; metanotum 

 wholly black; anterior half of wing dark 

 brown to 3rd vein, also 1st ])osterior cell ; 



hind margins and sides of 3rd and 4th [p. 353. 



abdominal segments distinctly red rufofasciatus, sp. n., 



C. testaceiis, Macq., though Indian, is excluded from the tahlo 

 because the description of it is very inconipk^te. Judging irom 

 the description this species should fall into section G, but actually 

 it may be a PhysocephaJa, 



2G8. Conops claripennis, sp. nov. 



<S $ . Head entirely pale yellow, ahnost livid on vertex, more 

 whitish on lower part of face, with a small black dot on each side 

 of the frons, not quite contiguous to the eye-margin, and situated 

 a little above the level of the anteunae. When tlie head is viewed 

 from above, a shining, pale gold, clear-cut band is visible, 

 extending down each side of frons and face. Antennje brownish- 

 orange, 2nd joint a little darker, also tip of 3rd, all joints subequal. 

 Proboscis brown, darker at base and tip; occiput wlioUy pale 

 yellow. Thorax witii ground-colour entirely orange-brown, more 

 or less dusted with whitish, dorsum to some extent blackish, 

 leaving humeri, scutelhim and sides indefinitely orange-brown. 

 PleurjB with a little whitish shimmer when seen from above. 

 Abdomen : 2nd and IJrd segments mainly dark reddish-brown, rest 

 of abdomen lilackisli ; 1st. 2nd and 3rd segments, and hind 

 margins of all the segments, indelinitely dusted with whitish; 

 1st segment with a little moderately long, stiff, black pubescence 

 at sides. Leys: coxae dusted with silvery-white; femora wholly 

 orange-brown ; tibiic orange-brown, with about basal half lemon- 

 yellow, and outer eide with a silvery-white shimmer in certain 

 lights ; tarsi black, with an indefinite pale streak on upper side at 

 base of anterior metatarsi ; pulvilli and claws pale yellow, tips of 



