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CONOPID^. 



brown pubescence. Wings wliolly blackish-brown, violet-tinged, 

 slightly paler posteriorly; halteres relatively small, black. 



L-UKjth, 10- Lo mm. 



Described from a long series of both sexes from Pasa, Bengal ; 

 20. iv. 1905; 1. viii. 1U07 (on rice); 21. ix. 1907; and from 

 Chapra, Bengal (Mackenzie); common in both these localities in 

 September. Deesa, (Nurse). Co\omho (Terburij). Lashio, Upper 

 Burma, 3000 ft., 23-24. viii. 1914 (Fldcher). The locality ap- 

 pended to the original description was simply " India orieutalis." 

 A striking species, from its practically wholly black colour and 

 very broad black wings, 



271. Conops sepulchralis, -Br»?i. 



Physocephala sepidc/tralis, Brinietti, Rec. Ind. Mus. vii, p. 498 (1912). 



d . Jlead wh(jlly black except the face and under side, which are 

 bright chrome-yellow, the colours sharply delineated in a line 

 across the base of the antenufB. The extreme under side of the 

 head, below the eyes, and the mouth and the proboscis are black, 

 the proboscis extending barely beyond the epistoma. Antennae 

 entirely black; 2nd joint two-and-a-half times as long as 1st; 

 3rd elongate, with a 2-jointed style, the first joint cup-shaped, 

 the second pointed ; the 3rd antennal joint together with its style 

 is about two-thirds as long as the 2nd joint; seen from in front 

 and below, the 3rd joint is a little greyish on the inner side. 

 There is a very dull, dirty yellow, subtubercular oval area, most 

 obvious from behind, on the vertex. Thorax with scutellum, 



Fig. 75. — Cono'ps sepulchralis, Bruu., profile of bead. 



metanotum and sides, wholly black. Ahdomen wholly black ; 

 1st segment with a few stiff black hairs at the sides ; 2nd segment 

 distinctly contracted (about half as wide as the 3rd and 4th 

 segments), dull yellowish-brown on hind margin and a little grey- 

 dusted at the sides ; 3rd segment with hind margin barely 

 whitened, and with a little grey dust at the sides behind ; 

 remainder of abdomen black, bare; genital organs small, black. 

 Legs very dark reddish-brown, nearly black ; coxte black ; hind 

 pair, seen from behind, brilliantly shining silvery-white ; the 

 silvery -white colour extends to a considerable degree across the 

 posterior part of the inetasternum ; anterior coxa3 silvered to a 

 less extent; femora with a broad black median ring filling two- 



