366 coNOPiD^. 



Described from a 6 from Chapra, Bengal (Maclcenzie), now 

 sent to the British Museum by Mr. T. B. Fletcher, and a second 

 S from Coimbatore, 17. vii. 1912. In this second specimen 

 (which is in the Forest Zoologist's collection) tlie distal end of 

 the wing-band is truncate. Tliere are also 2 c? d and 2 5 2 in 

 the British Museum, received from the Bombay Natural History 

 Society, without data. 



290. Physocephala tenella, B'kj. 



Cunops te?iellus, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Eut. France, (6) vii, p. 35 (1887). 



cJ 5 . Head brownish-yellow to pale yellow ; frons sometimes 

 partly or wholly black. Antennoe brownish-orange, sometimes 

 darker, 2nd joint about 2| times as long as 1st, 3rd (without 

 style) barely half as long as 2nd. Fovese often blackish. Pro- 

 boscis blackish-brown, double as long as head. Occiput mainly 

 blackish, broadly brownish-yellow behind vertex; side margins 

 with silvery or silky-yellow reflections. Tliorax wholly orauge- 

 brown, sometimes with three more or less distinct dark stripes, 

 the median one attaining the anterior margin ; pleurae with a 

 silvery-whiti'^h stripe ; scutellum orange-brown ; metanotuni 

 black, its upper part conspicuously gold-dusted, this golden dust 

 uniting two golden dust-spots situated one on each hypopleura. 

 Abdomen : 1st segment black ; 2nd segment and basal third of 3rd 

 segment, orange-brown; there is a broad median stripe on the 

 former, sometimes reduced to two short, black, longitudinally 

 placed vittaj, lying side by side ; middle third of 3rd segment, 

 basal half of 4th, 5th broadly at base, 6th narrowly at base, black ; 

 remainder of abdomen dusted with golden-yellow. Leys orange- 

 brown or orange ; coxoe a little darker, hind pair at least with 

 whitish reflections ; hind femora normally with a broad median 

 band, which may be incom])lete on the under side or reduced to a 

 longitudinal streak only on the upper side, and which is frequently 

 altogether absent. The hind tibiae are paler yellow basally, witli 

 their apical third generally brownish or blackish ; all the tibiae 

 have silver or pale gold reflections on the outer side ; tarsi 

 generally darker brown. Wimis nearly clear. The dark band is 

 limited behind by the 3rd vein ; it usually ends sharply at the 

 distal extremity a little beyond the tip of the 2nd vein, and fills 

 the basal half of the 1st posterior cell ; but it is often continued 

 faintly to the tip of the 3rd vein, where it is darkened. The 

 apical section of the 3rd vein is sometimes independently suffused, 

 and an extremely narrow darkening in front of the 6th vein is 

 sometimes present. Halteres yellow. 



Lenf/ili, 8-11 mm. 



Eedescribed from a typical cJ and $ in the Bigot collection and 

 from several specimens in the British Museum. Simla, viii. 1898 ; 

 Kangra Valley, 4500 ft., vi. 1899, two d 6 {Dudgeon); Coimbatore, 

 S. India, 5. viii. 1913, on maize, $; 18. xi. 1913; Singapore 



