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CONOPS PETIOLATA. 
PETIOLATED CONOPS. 
DIPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Mouth with a projecting geniculated probofeis: antenne clybbed : 
and pointed at the end, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Antenne black, with the club reddifh: head yellow : abdomen 
petiolate. 
CONOPS PETIOLATA: antennis nigris: clava rubra, capite flavo, 
abdomine petiolato. Gimel. Linn. Sy/t. Nat. p. 
28094. : 
An example of this very rare, and elegant infect occurs in Mr. 
Drury’s cabinet of Britifh infeéts now in our poffeffion: the particu- 
lars relative to its capture are however unknown tous. ‘The {pecies is 
evidently the petiolata of Gmelin, defcribed by that writer, as it ap- 
pears on the authority of Laxman as a native of Siberia. We have 
‘reafon to apprehend that it is not figured in any work, and is only no- 
_ ticed as a fpecies on the authority above mentioned. 
The {malleft figure denotes the natural fize. ‘The general colour of 
this infe€t is black with a hoary caft, the petiole of the abdomen 
brownih 
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