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of wing base is yellow; on the disk there are numerous hairs and two 

 pairs of macrochsetse; pleurse opaque black-brown, the sutures paler- 

 scutellum opaque black-brown, a spot at each side at base, one before 

 middle on disk and two at apex poUinose; four marginal bristles 

 present. Abdomen yellowish-brown, each segment narrowly paler 

 anteriorly and posteriorly, a spot of white pollinose color on each 

 segment laterally; numerous scattered hairs on segments, especially 

 on sides and at apex. Legs brown, apices of femora, base, middle, and 

 apices of tibise narrowly, apices of first arid second, and whole of third 

 joints of tarsi white; all legs with rather distinct hairs, those on pos- 

 terior surfaces of fore tibias and tarsi very long and conspicuous ; mid 

 tibise with three pairs of dorsal bristles and one ventral bristle 

 which is situated at near to middle; basal joint of hind tarsi very 

 much dilated, about two- thirds as long as second joint which is less 

 thickened. Wings fuscous with hyalme patches (see fig. 1); disk 

 microscopically hairy, costa soft but long haired, bend of second vein 

 appendiculate. Halteres yellow. 



Length. — 2 mm. 



Tijpe.— Cat. No. 15308, U.S.N.M. 



Locality.— Mamla,, Philippme Islands (collector, R. Brown). 



This species has a resemblance to venalicia Osten Sacken but the 

 very different venation serves to separate them at once. 



PIPUNCULUS VIERECKI, new species. 



Plate 46, figs. 4 and 5. 



Female. — Head exceptionally large, eyes very narrow^ separated, 

 frontal stripe slightly widened on center, entirely covered with 

 silvery pile, only the ocellar region black, frons not widened at above 

 antennae, and not raised in center, eye facets on whole front of eyes 

 from upper portion of frons to middle of face very strikingly enlarged; 

 face silvered, becoming broader toward mouth, at upper margin as 

 broad as frons at above antennae; antennae yellow, basal joint brown, 

 second joint with very short hairs above and two to three short but 

 strong bristles on under surface, third joint elongate and acuminate 

 (see fig. 5) ; arista pale and swollen at base, black from just beyond 

 base, palpi and proboscis yellow. Mesonotum subshining, closely 

 and finely punctate, black with three longitudinal stripes sho\\dng 

 through the slight whitish pollinosity of the disk; the stripes are 

 abbreviated posteriorh", no distinct discal hau's present, only a few 

 on humeri and lateral margins ; humeri black, a sHght depression on 

 posterior third of disk beyond termination of stripes; suture between 

 scutum and scutellum deep owing to the swelling of those parts at 

 their extremities; pleurae black, whitish dusted, scutellum almost 

 bare, concolorous mth scutum. Abdomen short, ovate, almost bare, 

 black, first segment very short, whitish pollinose, all other segments 



