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as a result of Loew’s dictum ramondi has remained a syno- 
nym to this day. Since ramondi is twice the size of pictus 
and accurately figured in color by Bigot, it is inconceivable 
how Loew made such a statement. The specimens described 
above, however, were correctly named by Johnson. 
Physoconops pictus (Fabricius) 
Conops picta Fab., 1775, Syst. Ent., 4: 391 (West Indies). 
Conops ramondi Bigot of authors, in error. 
This species appears to be restricted to the West Indies. 
Macquart recorded it from the United States (“Carolina”) 
and Weidemann from South America, but these references 
are almost certainly to other species. In the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology there are specimens from Cuba, Haiti, 
and Puerto Rico. The American Museum of Natural His- 
tory also has specimens from Cuba and Puerto Rico. Krober, 
1939, records pictus from “S. Domingo”. 
Another species, for which good structural differences can- 
not at present be found, is represented in the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology by two specimens labelled “Cuba”, 
one from “Havana, Cuba, Baker”, and one from Buenos 
Aires, Trinidad Mts., Cuba, June 17-23, C. Parsons. This 
species differs from pictus in having a dark rufous abdomen, 
black scutellum, etc. It is perhaps intermediate between 
pictus and cubanus. 
Physocephala Schiner 
Physocephala Schiner, 1861, Wien. Ent. Monatssch., 5: 137. 
Physocephala venusta new species (Figs. 12, 13) 
Female: length without antennse 9.5 mm. Face and front 
yellow except for a sinuous rufo-piceous transverse band 
contiguous with the vertex and extending medially down to 
the antennse but not divaricating at the antennse. Antennse 
as figured, rufo-testaceous, the third segment and style some- 
what paler, the distal end of the first and dorsal and lateral 
sides of the second segment covered with black setse. Cheeks 
pale piceous with an obscure testaceous spot. Silvery white 
pollen extends along the eyes half way up the front. Probos- 
cis dark piceous, about twice as long as the head. Mesonotum 
