360 CONOPID^. 



282. Physocephala rufesceiis, sp. nov. (PL VI, fig. 11.) 



c? 2 • J^^fK^i brownish-yellow to pale yellow ; antennae orange- 

 brown or orange, style short and blunt ; fovete sometimes blackish, 

 occiput black but extensively yellowish behind vertex ; proboscis 

 black, over twice as long as bead. Thorax orange-brown, with a 

 large central, dorsal, quadrate, blackish spot, reaching the anterior 

 margin (possibly this is due to discoloration); humeri and a 

 small space in middle of hind margin dusted with golden-yellow ; 

 pleuras with a very small yellow dust-spot on lower part ot 

 niesoj)leura and upper part of sternopleura ; hypoplenra con- 

 spicuously gold-dusted*; scutellum orange-brown; nietanotum 

 black. Ahdornen: 1st segment blackish; 2nd segment and basal 

 third of 3i-d segment, orange-brown ; middle third of 3rd segment 

 and about basal half of 4th and 5th, black; hinder part of 3rd 

 segment, renuunder of 4th and 5th, and all 6th, dusted with 

 Yellowish or yellowish-grey. Lags brown-orange, coxa? more or 

 less blackish, with a little whitish dust or shimmer; about basal 

 half of all tibiae more or less lemon-yellow ; pulvilli pale yellowish. 

 Wings grey ; dark brown from the anterior margin to the 4th 

 vein, though the costal cell is a trifle paler; the brown colour is 

 limited distally, though not sharply, at about the tip of the 2nd 

 vein and the middle of the 1st posterior cell, but is continued 

 fanitly along the costa to the tip of the 3rd vein, which is dis- 

 tinctly suffused. Hinder side of discal cell narrowly brown, the 

 base indistinctly so. Halteres brown-orange. 



Length, 10-11 mm. 



Described from the tijpe S in the Indian Museum from Kash- 

 mir, 19)5 (//. T. Pease), and two c? d and ihe ty^M § from the 

 same locality, 5000 ft., v. 1901 {Col. Nurse). 



283. Physocephala nursei, sp. nov. 



c5' . A'ery near aurantiaca, Brun. Dorsum of thorax with three 

 blackish stripes of the usual pattern ; trie pleural stripe is of gold- 

 yellow dust, and is much broader and more conspicuous; the 

 hypopleurae have equally conspicuous gold dust, as has also the 

 upper half of the metanotum. Wing-band rather dark brown, 

 delimited distally just beyond the tip of the 2nd vein, and filling 

 the basal lialf of the 1st posterior cell ; tip of 3rd \ein slightly 

 infuscated ; 1st basal and discal cells, also remainder of u ing, clear. 



Length, 14 mm. 



Described fi-om t\\o ^ 6 ■ Qnetta, vi. 1902 (Ntirse). Ti/j^e 

 presented by Col. Nurse to the British Museum. The specific 

 distinctness of this insect rests on the thoracic stripes and the 

 less extent of the brown colour in the wings; especially in the 

 1st basal and the discal cell being quite clear, both of them being 

 brown in aurantiaca. 



* In the type ^ the gold dust marks have almost entirely faded away. 



