757. 

 PIPUNCULUS PRATORUM. 



Order Diptera. Fam. Pipunculidae. 



Type of the Genus, Pipunculus campestris Lat. 



PiPUNCULTJS Lat., Meig., Hal., Walk., Macq., Curt. — Cephalops 

 Fall. — Microcera Meig. 



Antennce inserted near the middle of the face, small, approxi- 

 mating, porrected, 6-jointed, basal joint obconic-truncate, '2nd 

 broad, short, transverse- ovate, slightly bristly, 3rd the largest, 

 drooping, pubescent, compressed, subovate, sometimes acumi- 

 nated, 4th joint minute, cup- shaped, attached close to the base 

 of the 3rd ; 4th minute, subglobose, 5th a moderate naked seta, 

 incrassated at the base (3). 



Trophi concealed in a narrow^ cavity under the face. 

 Labrum short and small (1.6). 

 Palpi rather large, capitate, the club hairy (/). 

 Lip comparatively large, forming 2 lobes {g). 

 Head large, nearly spherical ; hypostoma very narrow : eyes conti- 

 guous above in the males, separated only by a narrow space in the 

 females : (2 the profile ; 2 $ upper, * underside .) ocelli 3 in triangle 

 near the base. Thorax globose-quadrate : scutel transverse,_ semi- 

 ovate. Abdomen short and linear, more or less cylindric, 6-Jointed 

 and terminating in a large hollow vesicle in the males ; 7 -jointed in 

 the females, with a stout, acuminated, horny, incurved ovipositor 

 (7). Wings incumbent, parallel, very long, 2nd longitudinal cell 

 with an angle formed by the oblique nervure which nearly meets the 

 1st at the apex (9). Halteres small and capitate. Legs short: 

 thighs generally simple : tibiae a little sinuated, slightly narrowed 

 at the base, intermediate as long as the hinder: tarsi moderate, 5- 

 jointed, basal joint the longest and stoutest, especially the hinder, 

 3rd and 4th very short : claws long and slender : pulvilli large and 

 bilobed. 



Pratortjm Fall. — Curt. Guide, Gen. 1,250, 7. 



Cinereous ; antennae black, 3rd joint acuminated and hoary : 

 hypostoma silvery : head slate colour, hoary behind the eyes, 

 which are red-brown : basal joint of abdomen and subtrigonate 

 spots on each side of the segments gray : wings hyaline, stigma 

 fuscous, nervures ochreous at the base ; halteres pale ochre, 

 club reddish brown : legs ochreous, coxae and thighs, excepting 

 the extremities, cinereous black ; tibiae with a fuscous patch at 

 the middle, apical joint of tarsi blackish. 



In the Author's and other Cabinets. 



