354: INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



Habitat ? 62. lugubris, Mq. 65. maura, Wlk. 



60. sugeus, Wd. 63. cruda, Wlk. QQ. exceipta, Wlk. 



61. seWsLia., Mq. 64. inhabilis, Wlk. 



Eondani has divided Conops into the following genera : — 



1. Brachiglossum, Rdn. (Leopoldius, Rdn. olim). Sp. 1, eiostrata; 

 2, diademata. 



2. Conopceus, i?f/n. Sp. 1, 4-fasciata; 2, flavipes; 3, flavifroiis. 



3. Conops. Sp. 1, pusilla ; 2, lacera; 3, vittata ; 4, macrocephala. 



4. Spariglossum, /?rfrt. (Conopoideus, iJdu. olina). Sp. 1, ferniginea. 



5. Conopilla, Rdn. Sp. 1, ceriaefonnis. 



Conops dimidiata, Saunders 3ISS. 



Femiginea; capitis vittis dtiabus thoracisque tribus ni</ris ; abdominenigro- 

 cinereo; antennis ferrugineis,articulo 2o piceo ; pedibus fuivis,femo- 

 ribus anterioribus nigro vittatis posticis nigris ; tibiis basi Jlavis, 

 tarsis nigris ; alis fuscis ad costam obscurioribus. 



Ferruginous: mouth and furrows of the face pitchy: mouth black: 

 feelers pitchy, ferruginous at the base and at the tips : chest with three 

 black stripes ; middle stripe longer than the others in front : disk of the 

 breast pitchy : abdomen black, transversely striated, clothed withshort black 

 hairs, about twice the length of the chest, with a hoary tinge towards the 

 tip ; hi7id borders of the first and second segments ferruginous ; second 

 segment long, slender, cylindrical, slightly tapering from the base to the tip, 

 much narrower than the following segments, which form a fusiform club : 

 legs stout ; feet and hind-thighs black ; anterior thighs striped with black 

 beneath : wings black, gray along the hind border, the black outline forming 

 an angle at the junction of the prtebrachial vein and the loiver cross veins ; 

 the prsebrachial vein is the same as the fifth vein, and the part beyond its 

 flexure in this and in the following family is the tip cross-vein of Meigen : 

 poisers ferruginous. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



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