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(USNM); Mogy Mivim, Sao Paftlo, November 1939, Pereira, 1 female 



(USNM). 



Physoconops (Pachyconops) bulbirostris (Loew) 



Conops bulbirostris Loew, Neue Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Dipteren, No. 1, p. 30, 



1853. 

 Conops sequax Williston, in Godman and Salvin, Biologia Centrali-Americana, 



Diptera, vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 80, 1892. 



This species has been recorded from South America, but I have 

 not seen any from south of Alexico. The variation inchides the char- 

 acters of sequax. 



Range: New Jersey to Florida west to Indiana and Texas. Mexico 

 (Jalisco, Vera Cruz, Yucatdn). Brazil? Bolivia? Paraguay? 



Physoconops (f achy conops) travassosi, new species 



Description: Male: Length 14 mm. Vertex and front blackish, 

 slightl}^ reddish in front of ocellar swelling. Face yellowish, cheeks 

 and parts of lower face blackish. Facial grooves and orbital margins 

 yellow pollinose. Antennae blackish, reddish at base of antennal seg- 

 ment 3 and distal aristal segment. Segment 2 twice the length of 

 segment 1. Segment 3 about equal to segment 2. Aristal segment 

 2 only slightly produced. Proboscis black, nearly twice height of 

 head. Occiput black, yellowish below. Postorbital stripe grayish 

 pollinose with indistinct postvertical pollinose stripe. Thorax black, 

 faintly yellow pollinose especially on coxae and metanotum. Legs 

 black, faintly yellow pollinose, tibiae yellowish proximally and distally. 

 Tarsi and base of claws da.rk yellowish. Pulvilli bright yellow. 

 Wings with dark brownish pattern, extending to the fifth vein proxi- 

 mally and vena spuria distally, completely filling first basal cell. 

 Remainder of wing hyaline except stripe along fifth vein. Calypters 

 dark yellow with blackish margin. Halters yellow, brownish at tip. 

 Abdomen black, narrow yellow pollinose at distal margins of segments 

 1 and 2. Apex of abdomen grayish pollinose. Segment 6 more 

 elongated than usual. Genitalia dark reddish. 



Female: Length 13}2 mm. Similar to the male. Face darker, more 

 reddish. The theca very long, yellowish anteriorly distally. 



Variation (in paratypes): Length 12 to 14^ mm. Front more 

 blackish in one female. Face darker, more reddish in one male; 

 bright yellowish in one female. 



Types: Holotype, male (USNM 62426), Maracaju, Mato Grosso, 

 Brazil, May 1937, R. C. Shannon. Allotype (USNM), E. Lefevre, 

 Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sept. 1, 1937, Travassos, Lopes, and Oiticica. 

 Paratypes: Brazil: 1 male, same data as holotype; 1 female (USNM), 

 Palmiras, Rio de Janeiro, 1940, Lopes; 1 female (USNM), Salobra, 



