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ing upward for one-third the length of the face. Occiput black with 

 yellow pollen on the orbitals. Antennae black, segment 1 and narrow 

 basal margin of segment 3 reddish. Segment 1 about four times as 5 

 long as wide; segment 2 twice the length of segment 1; segment 3 

 1)2 times segment 1, relatively slender. Arista 3-segmented, segment 2 i 

 moderately produced laterally. Proboscis black, IK times height of I 

 head. 



Thorax entirely black with faint yellow pollen on the dorsum, 

 somewhat more marked medial to the humeri and on the scutellum. i 

 Coxae black with yellowish pollen. Femora black with reddish at| 

 base and apex. Tibiae mostly reddish, tarsi mostly reddish, the distal i 

 segments more blackish, claws black, pulvilli reddish. 



Wings with pattern extending to vein 3 and the vena spuria, with 

 a narrow margin before veins 4, 5, and 6. Pattern rufous on the 

 basal half, more blackish on the distal half, especially between veins 

 2 and 3 and vena spuria. Costal cell and remainder of wing nearly 

 hyaline. Halters reddish black, especially at the tip. 



Abdomen black with narrow distal margins of golden pollen oni 

 segments 1-3. Segments 4-6 are nearly entirely covered withi 

 golden pollen. Genital segments black and reddish. 



Type: Holotype, male (USNM 62423), Rio Claro, Sao Paulo, 

 Brazil, October 1939, Claretiano. 



Remarks: This is the only true Conops that I have seen from the 

 Neotropical region. Perhaps Kjrober identified a specimen of this 

 species as hermanni when he placed that species in Conops, and then 

 redescribed hermanni as perbellum in Physoconops. 



Conops (^Conops") hermudensis Parsons 



Conops hermudensis Parsons, Psyche, vol. 47, p. 28, 1940. 



This species has not been seen at this time, but presumably belong£J 

 to the typical subgenus. It is a species with spots on the anterioil 

 orbital margins at the frontofacial junction. This is a frequent' 

 character among the Old World Conops. The only New World specie; 

 with this character that I have seen is Tropidomym bimaculata 

 This is the only member of the genus Conops that occurs in th( 

 Nearctic region. 



Conops (^Conops) pruinosus Bigot 



Conops pruinosus Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, vol. 7, p. 46, 1887. 



This species was described as questionably from Central America 

 The type is in the British Museum, and from information suppliec 

 by Oldroyd it belongs to Conops. It keys out to gracilis, but tha' 

 species is a Physoconops. Being a Conops, there is a good possibilit; 

 that it is not a Neotropical species. 



