MYOPA. 381 



black femoral ring reduced to a moderately broad subapical oiie^ 

 otherwise they agree very closely with the type. 



300. Myopa testacea, L. 



Comps testaceiis, Linnpeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. xi. 2, p. 1006 (1759). 

 Mi/opa testacea, Scliiner, Faun. Austr. i, p. .^86 (]8(52). 



6 2- Head: vertex bghter or darker brown, often paler in 

 middle, with some bristly black hairs ; frons brownish-yellow or 

 orange; rest of bead pjile yellowish, with a little coiicolorous 

 pubescence on margins ; there is a fair-sized, dark brown, elongate 

 spot on each side of the frons, extending over the upper part of 

 the face towards the eyes, and another just below it, near the eye- 

 margin, xlntenna; orange-brown. Thorax : dorsum black ; s'ide 

 margins and pleurte dark orange-brown, with whitish reflections 

 and a httle greyish dust on the sternopleur£e and other parts; 

 scutellum rather dark brown ; metanotum shining black. 

 Pubescence of whole thorax black. Abdomen mainly^reddish- 

 brown or orange-brown, sometimes a little blackish at base; with 

 yellow-grey dust-bands occasionally present on hind margins of 

 3rd and 4th segments, and the tip of the abdomen generally 

 similarly dusted. Abdominal pubescence black. Lec/s yellow isli- 

 brown or orange-brown ; an indefinite black subapical band ou 

 femora; two more or less distinct narrow rings on hind tibia), 

 dividing the limb subequally ; tips of claws and pubescence of legs 

 black. Wings moderately dark grey, a little yellowish basally ; 

 anterior cross-vein distinctly but narrowly suffused; squanuxv 

 whitish ; halteres yellowish-brown. 



Eedescribed from two d" d taken by Col. Nurse in Kashmir, 5000- 

 6000 ft., V. 1901, and from European examples of both sexes. This 

 is one of the commonest European species of Conopid.i:, and is 

 recorded also from Norihern Africa. 



301. Myopa cincta, Fabr. 



Myopa cincta, Fabricius.Ent. Syst. iv, p. 399 (1794) ; Wiedemann, 

 Aus3. Zweiti. ii, p. 246. 



_ " Slightly smaller than M. fen-ufjineus *. Antenna) ferruginous, 

 tip pointed; frons vesiculose, white with a black spot on 

 each side. Thorax obscurely testaceous; abdomen testaceous, 

 with three very indistinct whitish bands. Legs testaceous; 

 tipsbjack; tibiae rather shining silvery. Habitat in East India: 

 Dr. Koenig." 



I have not seen this species, nor lias any author apparently 

 recorded it since its discovery. Judging by the expri'ssion that 

 the tips of the antenna) are pointed, this should be a distinct 

 species, otherwise it might be merely a synonym of testacea, L. 



* = Sicua ferrugineus, L. 



