1940] 
Conopidae of West Indies and Bermuda 
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Conops pictus Fab. of authors, in error. 
Female: length without antennae 21 mm. Easily dis- 
tinguished by its very large size and reddish brown color. 
Front, face, cheeks reddish brown. There is yellow pollen 
in the facial depression and extending along the facial and 
posterior orbits up to a little above the level of the base of 
the antennse. In certain angles of light the pollen shows as 
a golden sheen. Proboscis reddish brown, evidently less than 
twice the length of the head (in the single female the apex 
is broken off). Antennse as figured; reddish brown, style 
paler, second segment thickly covered with black setse. Tho- 
rax reddish brown, a pair of obscure longitudinal piceous 
lines on anterior part of mesonotum and one near each mar- 
gin of the mesonotum. Humeri without pollen, but an ir- 
regular golden pollen spot on the inside of each humerus and 
posterior from the humeri to the wing bases. An oblique 
golden pollen band on the mesopleurse and sternopleurse. 
Golden pollen hardly discernible on the reddish brown scu- 
tellum but forming a yellow band across the anterior half of 
the metanotum. Halteres dull yellow. Legs pale reddish 
brown, coxse covered with a silvery yellow sheen; distal 
halves of the tibise covered with a yellow sheen, especially on 
the outer side; tarsi black, pale at each end; tips of claws 
black. Abdomen as figured; reddish brown; the posterior 
margins of the first and second segments with golden pollen, 
particularly on the sides ; two obscure piceous stripes on the 
second segment; Ventral plate very long, black on the pos- 
terior side. Wings hyaline, with a reddish brown streak 
from the first to the fourth veins, tending to be fuscous dis- 
tally; posterior part of first posterior cell and most of the 
second posterior cell hyaline. 
Male: length without antennse 20.5 mm. Similar to the 
female but the style much longer and more attenuate ; pro- 
boscis darker, with a black tip ; first to third abdominal seg- 
ments much thinner, and more pollen on the scutellum. 
Described from a pair collected by C. T. Ramsden in 1910 
( $ May 31, $ June 21) on the Rio Seco, Quantanamo, Cuba 
in the C. W. Johnson collection of the Museum of Compara- 
tive Zoology. 
Osten Sacken, in his catalogue (1878, p. 255) , quotes Loew 
as stating in litt. that ramondi is the same as pictus Fab., and 
