674 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Conops excerpta, n. s. Nigra, fronte falvo, thorace maculis abdo- 

 mineque fasciis albo-pubescentibus ornatis, antennis nigris, 

 pedibus piceis, tibiis basi fulvis, alls fuscis margine postico 

 cinereis. 



Body black : head and chest partly covered with white silky 

 down : head rugulose : front tawny, red on each side of the crown : 

 mouth pitchy : feelers black ; second joint pubescent, much longer 

 than the first; third joint a little longer than the first; fourth 

 and following joints very short : chest adorned on each side of the 

 front with a patch of white down : abdomen slightly sessile, linear 

 for more than one-fourth of its length from the base/spindle-shaped 

 thence to the tip, adorned with three or four bands of white down, 

 about twice the length of the chest : legs pitchy, clothed with very 

 short black hairs ; shanks covered with white silky down, tawny at 

 the base ; foot-cushions yellow : wings brown along the fore borders, 

 especially by the borders of the veins for the whole length and for 

 more than half the breadth, elsewhere gray ; wing-ribs and veins 

 pitchy ; poisers pale yellow, pitchy at the base. Length of the body 

 6 lines ; of the win^s 11 lines. 



Conops Bulbimus, n. s., fern. ? Atra, capite luteo jlavoque quadri- 

 vittato, thorace luteo trimaculato, abdominis fasciis duabus apice- 

 que luteis, antennis nigris, pedibus luteis, femoribus basi nigris, 

 alis limpidis ad costam fuscis. 



Body deep black, velvety, thickly clothed with short black 

 hairs : head adorned with two orange stripes above, and with 

 two yellow stripes in front, and with a patch of golden hairs on each 

 side of the front : mouth black : eyes dark red : feelers black, pu- 

 bescent; first and second joints slightly club-shaped; second joint 

 more than twice the length of the first; third joint broader than 

 the first and the second at the base, tapering thence to the tip, 

 hardly more than half the length of the second; fourth joint 

 very short; fifth joint twice the length of the fourth; sixth joint 

 still longer, tapering from the base to the tip : chest adorned 

 with three large orange spots, one on each shoulder, and one behind 

 the scutcheon : abdomen sessile, very slightly increasing in breadth 

 from the base to the tip, rather less than twice the length of the 

 chest, adorned with two broad orange bands, one near the base, the 

 other near the tip, which is also orange : legs orange ; fore thighs 

 black at the base; four hinder thighs more slightly marked with 

 black, which sometimes disappears on the hinder pair; foot-cushions 

 pale yellow: tips of claws black: wings brown on half the breadth 



