CO NO PS. 



847 



small, black. Legs orange-brown ; coxae with shining, pale gold 

 reflections and with rather strong, though medium -sized, black 

 bristles ; hind femora indistinctly blackish on inner side ; tarsi 

 black, piilvilli and claws orange-yellow, tips of latter black; tibiae, 

 seen from above, with a whitish shimmer on outer side. Pubes- 

 cence of legs short, black, bristly, much denser towards tips of 

 tibiae. WbKjs pale yellowish-grey ; rather dark yellowish-brow n 

 from anterior margin to 4th vein, this colour extending to 

 wing-tip and indeiinitely hindwards ; 5th and 6th veins very 

 narrowly infuscated with yellowish-brown; squamae and halteres 

 orange-yellow. 



Length, 13 14 mm. 



Described from :2 J c? in British Museum from the Ivhasi 

 Hills, Assam {Sladen). The appearance of this species is rather 

 abnormal, on account of the contrast of the wholly black aad 

 pubescent abdomen with the orange-brown thorax. 



270. Conops erythrocephaliis, Fabr, 



Conops criithroccphala, Ffiljricius, Ent. Syst. iv, p. 39:^ (1794) ; 

 Wiedemaiiii, Aiiss. Zweiti. ii, p. 23o (1830) ; Macquart, Dipt. 

 Exot. ii, pt. 3, p. 9, x>h i, tig- 7 (1843). 



6 2 . Head orange or orange-yellow wirh silvery-\^hite rellec- 

 tions ; lower part of frons, antennal prominence and antennae, 

 black or blackish; proboscis with basal half reddish-brown, 

 apical half black ; a small conspicuous round black spot on each 

 side of frons at level of antenna), contiguous to eye-margin; 



i'ig. 73. — Conops crythro- 

 cephaluf, F., ^ genitalia. 



Fig. 74. — Conops crythro- 

 eepholus, F., $ genitalia. 



occiput orange with whitish reflections. Thorax black, with 

 white-dusted dorsum; biniieri dull orange with whitish reflections; 

 pleurae black with general silvery-white reflect ions and a broad 

 silvery-white stripe from behind humeri to middle coxa?. A/idumen 

 violet-black, last segment in (J white-dusted; genitalia eon- 

 colorous, genital shield in $ very large, black. Legs black or 

 dark brown; coxie witli more or less whitisli reflections; anterior 

 femora rcddish-lirdw n or orange-brown, except narrowly at tips; 

 tarsi in certain lights seen to be covered with moderately dark 



