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290. Sicus ferrugineus, L. 



Conops ferruffineus, Linnaeus, Faun. Suec. p. 1907 (1761). 

 Sicus ferru(jinem, Schiner, lAum. Austr. i, p. 384 (1862). 

 Mtjopa anniUipes, liobineau-Desvoidy, MyoJaires, p. 246 (1830). 



6 2' Head: fi'oiis i'roiu deep red-orange to orange-yellow; 

 ocellar triangle small, brown, Avith two long fine bristles and 

 some shorter ones ; npper corners of frons with some long black 

 bristly hairs and very short ones, extending down sides of frons for 

 a short distance. Antenna? dark reddish-orauge or red-brown, the 

 short, thickened arista black; 2iid joint distinctly longer than 1st 

 or;ird. Eestof bead from orange to yellowish, with silvery-white 

 or pale gold refltjctions ; proboscis black. Thora.v oraiige'-brown, 

 darker or paler ; there are three rather broad, nearly contiguous, 

 black stripes, the median one being the longest but not reaching 

 the front margin, all three extending behind suture ; a more or 

 less indistinct stripe with a whitish reflection extends on either 

 side from the side margin of the dorsum over the mesopleura and 

 sternopleura. Pubesceiice of thorax black, moderately dense, 

 more bristly on certain parts of the dorsum. Scutellum con- 

 colorous, with a little black bristly hair of varying length and a 

 row of longer hairs on hind margin. Abdomen orange-brown, 

 variable ; darker in parts, and generally with whitish reflections 

 towards the sides ; tip sometimes black, as is also the small sheath 

 below the 5th segment in the $ . Legs mostly orange-brown to 

 tips; cox£e with some whitisli reflections; pubescence black, 

 decidedly more bristly and longer on the hind femora, where there 

 are on the untler side two rows of black spines, wide apart. 

 Wings pale grey, a little yellowish at base in individuals ; halteres 

 orange-brown. 



Lengthy 7-12 mm. 



Redescribed from specimens in the British Museum from 

 various European localities, and one speciuaen in the same collec- 

 tion_ from Tungu, Teesta A'alley, Sikkim, 1;^(X)0-U,000 ft., 

 1-15. vii. 19u3(2%ei Expalitlon). A common European species. 



Genus MYOPA Vahr. 



Myopa, Fabrioius, Syst. ICnt. p. 7US (177o). 



Fdinnniria, liobineau-Desvoidy, Dipt. ouv. Paris, Myop. p. 31 

 (l8.-,;5). 



GonirlufHchux, Ilon(hini, Dipt. Ital. Prod. ii. p. 241 (18r)7). 

 JIauatellia, liobineau-Desvoidy, l)ii)t. env. I'uris, Mvop. p. 47(1853). 

 Lonchopnlpus, liobineau-Desvoidy, op. cit. p. 3o ( 1853). 

 Mifopplld, liobiiitiau-Desvoidy, op. cit. p. 18 (1853). 

 Mi/apina, liobineau-Desvoidy, op. cit. p. 3!) ( 1H;"J3). 

 Plwro4ii, liobineau-Desvoidy, op. cit. p. 2il (185.3). 

 rictinla, liobineau-l^esvoidy, op. cit. p. 15 (1853). 

 Purpurella, liobineau-Desvoidy, op. cit. p. 37 (1853). 



Genotype, Conops buccata, L. ; by designation of Curtis. 

 Jlecrd large, loosely attached ; vertex vesiculose, generally 

 reddish; lower part of head often projecting downwards con- 



