328 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATION A I. MUHEIM. vol.xxi. 



SPILOMYIA SALTUUM Fabricius. 



Syrphns ndlhntm Kaisiuchis, Knt. Syst., 1791, IV, p. 287. 

 A female speeirnen (No. 710) agreeing- very well with Schiner's 

 description. Also a lOnropean species. 



MILESIA UNDULATA Vollenhoven. 

 Milexia nndulata XOm.kmiovkv, XCrsl. Med. Knii. AUad. \V<-t. Aid. Niitinirk., 



ixt;:?, XV, )). 12. 



Five males and four females (No. <»S5). Tiiis species was originally 

 described from .Iap;m. 



Family OONOIMDAE. 



CONOPS NIPONENSIS Vollenhoven. 



(hnopH vipoiieiinis NOi.i.kniionkn, V(M-81. Mcid. Koii. Akad. Wet. Aid. Natuurk., 

 181)3, XV, p. 1(1. 



Two male specimens (No. 71.^>). Originally described from Japan. 



CONOPS CURTULUS, new species. 



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Male: Occipnt black, nearly the lower half and the npper portion in 

 the middle yellow, narrowly gray prninose next the eyes below the 

 emarginations in the latter; vertex yellow, remainder of front yellowish 

 brown, sometimes a brown spot iu the center and another at base of 

 antennae; i'ace and cheeks yellow, opacpie, >ellow pruinose except on 

 the antennal process, si(l(\s of face and (ore part of cheeks with several 

 brown punctures; antennae black, the thiid joint reddish brown, first 

 Joint slightly more than one-half as long as the second, slightly shorter 

 than the third, fii>l two joints of the style snbe(pial in length, the tirst 

 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 two taken together; proboscis black, below 

 the nnddle yellowish, about one and one half times as long as height of 

 head. Thorax brownish black, the humeri yellow, the i)leura and me- 

 tanotum thinly gray pruinose; scutellum brownish black, the margin 

 usually narrowly yellowish. Abdomen black, the posterior margin of 

 each segment excei»t the lirst yellowish, the posterior half of the sixth 

 and nearly all of the portion beyond it yellow; tirst segment, a fascia on 

 the posterior maigin of the second to fourth, and the remainder of the 

 abdomen beyond the latter gray pruinose; second segment only slightly 

 loDger than wide, not h)nger than the third. Wings grayish hyaline, 

 the portion in front of the third vein and a. border to the fifth, pale yel- 

 lowish brown, the outline of this color imlistinct; first vein from its 

 base to the humeral crossvein brown, veins elsewhere yellow, changing 

 into brown at their apices, llalteres yellow. Legs blackish, femora 



