DIPTEROUS FAMILY PANTOPHTHALMIDiE. 581 



Pautophthalinus conspicuus, sp. n. (Text-figs. 6, 7.) 



5 , — Length (one specimen), including ovipositor and facial 

 beak, 36"2 mm. ; width of head 9*4 mm. ; widtli of front at vertex 

 1 -8 mm. ; greatest width of abdomen (across third tergite) 

 14-5 mm. ; length of wing 28 mm. 



In $ sex, at least in case of typical specimen, a grey, honey- 

 yellow or isabella-coloured {probably in life green) and black 

 sjyecies, with facial beak represented by a blunt, rounded prominence, 

 conspicuoitsly Uack-strijyed thorax, blunt-edged abdomen, and no 

 subfemoral spine on hind legs; lateral borders of first four 

 abdominal teryites black, with two large, silvery-white spots on each 

 side ; vnngs marked as shown in text-fig. 6, broadly cream-buff or 

 buff-yellow at base; hind femora somewhat incrassate towards tips, 

 hind tibiae thickly clothed toith black hair, appearing stout. 



Head : front (frons) light greyish-olive pollinose, of moderate 

 and uniform width, oceUar tubercle black; face and jowls 

 mummy-brown, tip of bluntly rounded facial beak reddish, inner 

 and lower orbits bordering face and jowls narrowly olive-bufl 

 pollinose, jowls and basioccipital region clothed with dark brown 

 or blackish-brown hair ; occiput dark olive-bu(F pollinose, appear- 

 ing bulfy-bi-own in certain areas and mummy-brown below 

 vertex, clothed with fine, brownish hair, which has an ochraceous- 

 tawny or cinnamon-brown sheen, posterior orbits light buff' 

 pollinose, bare; first and second segments oi palpi sepia-coloured, 

 to"-ether shorter than distal seghient and clothed with dark 

 brown or blackish-brown hair, distal segment russet-coloured, 

 cylindrical, tapering somewhat towards tip and ending bluntly, 

 with a few blackish hairs on inner side towards base; aniennce 

 thinly olive-bufFor smoke-grey pollinose, first and second segments 

 tawny, distal e.x^tremity of se.cond segment fringed with bright 

 ochraceons-tawny hairs, third (compound) segment russet-brown, 

 terminal division paler (cinnamon- or pinkish-cinnamon-coloured). 

 Thorax : dorsum of main portion (scutum) pale smoke-grey pol- 

 linose (ground-colour largely chestnut-brown or russet, ground- 

 colour of humeral calli pinkish-bufi*), with two • straight and 

 complete, converging, longitudinal black stripes of uniform width, 

 which in front are in contact Avith inner ends of humeral calli, 

 and posteriorly meet together in prescutellar groove ; in middle 

 lino a brownish, du,sky stripe (visible at least when insect is 

 regarded at an angle of 45° from behind), commencing on front 

 mavo-in as an elongate black spot, extends backwards and becomes 

 indistinct shortly after passing level of transverse suture ; 

 scutellum, except lateral extremities, Avhich are whitish-grey 

 pollinose and clothed with pale hair, blackish- brown, clothed 

 above with short blackish hair, and below with brownisli hair : 

 dorsum of scutum clothed in front with short yellowish hair, and 

 posteriorly with short blackish or black hair, on each side above 

 pleuraj and in front of transverse suture an area of longer, dark 

 brown or brownish hair, posteriorly ochraceous-tawuy at base ; 



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