58 OÖ. Kröber: 
in front; veins black, halteres pale yellow, with tawny knobs, 
Length of body 7 lines, of wings 14 lines. 
23. Conops eurtulus Coqu. 
Proc. Unit. Stat. Nat. Mus. XXI, 328, 1898. 
d: „Occiput black, nearly the lower half and the upper portion 
in the middle yellow; narrowly gray pruinose next the eyes below 
the emarginations in the latter; vertex yellow, remainder of front 
yellowish-brown, sometimes a brown spot in the center and another 
at the base of antennae; face and cheeks yellow, opaque, yellow 
pruinose except on the antennal process, sides of face and fore 
part of cheeks with several brown punctures; antennae black, the 
third joint reddish-brown, first joint slightly more than half as 
long the second, slightly shorter than the third; first and second 
joints of he style subequal in length; the first slightly broader than 
long, the second nearly twice as wide as the first, and nearly twice 
as wide as long; the third lanceolate, almost three times as long as 
the first and second together. Proboscis black, below the middle 
yellowish, about 14, times as long as height of head. Thorax 
brownish black, the humeri yellow, the pleurae and metanotum 
thinly grey pruinose, scutellum brownish black, the margin usually 
narrowly yellowish. Abdomen black, the posterior margin of each 
segment except the first yellowish, the posterior half of the sixth 
and nearly all of the portion beyond it yellow; first segment a 
fascia on the posterior margin of the second, third and fourth, and 
the remainder of the abdomen beyond latter grey pruinose; second 
segment only slightly longer than wide, not longer than the third. 
Wings grayish hyaline, the portion in front of the third vein and 
a border to the fifth pale yellowish brown, the outline of the color 
indistinct, first vein from its base to the humeral cross vein brown, 
veins elsewhere yellow, changing into brown at their apices. Hal- 
teres yellow. Legs blackish, femora brown, their broad apices and 
the whole of the tibiae reddish yellow, pulvilli and claws yellow, 
apices of the latter black. Length 1—1,1 cm. — Type No. 4000. 
Japan.“ 
24. Conops opimus Coqu. 1. c., p. 329. 
&: „Differs from the above description of curtulus only as 
follows: Occiput black, except the middle of the upper portion, ihe 
gray pruinosity, extending across it above the center; face and 
cheeks destitute of brown punctures; antennae reddish brown, 
first joint yellow, second joint of the style only slightly wider than 
the first; proboscis wholly black. Posterior angles of the thorax 
and the scutellum, except its extreme base yellow. Broad apices 
of wings pale yellow brown. Length 1,2 cm. — Type No. 4001. 
Japan.“ 
Aus dem australischen Faunengebiet liegen bisher nur 
sehr wenige Nachrichten vor. Im ganzen sind 17 Arten als Conods 
