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Pipunculidae. 



Fig. 8. Antenna 



of P. zonatus ^ . 



X 90. 



Male. Vertex black, frontal triangle and epistoma greyish white; 

 occiput grey, brownish above. Antennæ blackish brown, pale-haired, 

 with a rostriim of medium length. Thorax brown, 

 dull, indistinctly darker at the sides and with a 

 likewise indistinct dark middle line; behind the 

 humeri a grey spot and the disc a little grey in front 

 of scutellum; the disc has sparse^ short, dark hairs 

 only as dorsocentral rows and behind the humeri; 

 the hairs at the margin of scutellum a little longer 

 and stronger. Pleura and postscutellum grey. Ab- 

 domen brown, dull, with grey hind margins to the 

 segments, broadest at the sides and more or less 

 interrupted in the middle and thus forming grey 

 triangular lateral spots; first segment nearly quite 

 grey except in the middle. Abdomen is sparingly 

 haired with short, blackish hairs, first segment has 

 on each side a bunch of short, black bristles. Hypo- 

 pygium of medium size, with the apical impression 

 large, oval, broadest above; the claws reddish. Legs 

 black, greyish pruinose, the trochanters obscurely 

 brownish, knees and about the basal half of tibiæ yellowish, tarsi 

 brownish, palest at base; hind femora shining on posterior and ventral 

 side; the legs are all short-haired, femora a little spinulose below the 

 apical half, especially the middle femora with two distinct rows. 

 Wings a little brownish tinged, stigma brown, as long as next costal 

 segment; middle cross-vein a little behind the basal third of the 

 discai cell. Halteres brown, the peduncle paler. 



Female. Frons and epistoma narrow, the frons black above, 

 white downwards, it has a longitudinal keel from the ocellar tringle 

 ending with a little knob above the antennæ; third antennal joint 

 a little more pruinose than in the male and with a longer rostrum. 

 Abdomen wuth the grey spots larger; hypopygium pearshaped, 

 greyish black, shining above, with a longitudinal furrow; the ovi- 

 positor reddish, as long as the basal part, slightly incurved just at 

 apex. Claws and pulvilli larger than in the male. Wings with the 

 stigma shorter than the fourth costal segment. 

 Length 3,5 — 4,5 mm. 



P. zonatus is not rare in Denmark, Dyrehaven, Egebæks Vang, 

 Faxe Ladeplads (the author), on Lolland at Maglemer and in Merrits 

 Skov (Schlick), on Funen at Veflinge, in Jutland at Hejls south of 



