350 COKOPID.15. 



o£ its diseul and 1st posterior cells are more nearly in a line. 

 A S in the British MusHura from Darjiling, iv. ] 901 [Binr/ham), 

 is almost certainly of this species and possesses golden dust-bauds 

 on the 3rd and 4th segments. There is also a 5 from the Ivhasi 

 Hills in the British Museum, and a 5 in the Indian Museum from 

 Talewadi, near Castle E-ock, N. Kanara District, 3-10. x. 1916 



273. Conops ornatus. Big. 



Conups ornatus, Bigot, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xvii, p. 211 (1892). 



" 2 • Long. 15 mill. Antennae reddish, last segment a little 

 paler; proboscis blackish; face reddish with pale shining yellow 

 reflections ; two small black spots on frons near eye-margins. 

 Thorax redtlish, disc with three broad blackish stripes ; scutellum 

 reddish ; pleurae concolorous, with some silvery dust reflections ; 

 halteres pale tawny. 1st segment of abdomen blackish ; 2nd 

 moderately broad, elongate, reddish ; 3rd and 4th blackish, nar- 

 rowly bordered with reddish ; the rest reddish, but the 5th and 

 6th in the middle at the base blackish ; the last three segments 

 with golden-yellow dust reflections on each side. Legs reddish, 

 tips of tibipe broadly, and tarsi wholly, blackish ; outer side of all 

 tibipe with brdliant silvery reflections. Wings wholly pale tawny, 

 tip broadly suffused with blackish. Vertex and frons not at all 

 inflated ; proboscis much longer than head ; femora not at all 

 thickened. 



"Two specimens, Mahe, India {M.Em. Descliamps)."' 

 J udging from this description, and particularly from the mention 

 of the two black spots on the frons, this species might almost be 

 identical with Bigot's nubectdosiis, but the three broad blackish 

 stripes on the thorax should be a good distinguishing character, 

 and the insect is also decidedly larger. 



274. Conops mibeculosus. Big. (PI. VI, fig. 9.) 



Conops nuhecnlosus, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (6) vii, p. 86 



(1887). 



S $. Head', vertex, frons, antenual prominence and occiput 

 In-ight brownish-yellow ; face and rest of lower part of head 

 bright pale, almost golden, yellow, wlrh a vivid yellow, pale yellow 

 or yellowish-white shimmer when seen from above; the colours 

 of the frons and face are sharply delimited at the level of the 

 autennte (when viewed from above), at which point on each side, 

 contiguous to the eye-margin, is a small, very distinct, round, jet- 

 black spot. Mouth-opeaing more or less brownish-yellow; proboscis 

 when not extended about 1| times length of head, brownish-yellow 

 or reddish-brown, with basal half and tip black. Antennae 

 brownish-yellow or yellowish-brown, 3rd joint orange with con- 

 colorous 2-iointed style, extreme length of joint nearly as long as 



