30 Pipunculidae. 



6. P. sulcatus Beck, 



1897. Beck. Berl. Entom. Zeitschr. XLII, 57, 23 et 1900. XLV, 223, 23 

 et 1921. Wien. Ent. Zeitg. XXXVIII, 127. - 1910. Kertész, Cat. Dipt. VII, 

 382 (Dorylas). 



Male. Unknown. 



Female. Frons black, grey above the antennæ, with a very 



slight longitudinal keel ending in a low knob above the antennæ; 



epistoma whitish grey. Occiput grey, brown above. Antennæ with 



the third joint yellow, with a long and fine rostriim, Thorax dull 



brownish, greyish behind the humeri, humeral 



knob yellow^; the disc sparingly with fine, short 



hairs only as dorsocentral rows and behind the 



humeri, the hairs are almost not longer at the 



margin of scutellum. Pleura and postscutellum 



greyish. Abdomen brown, dull, with greyish hind 



margins to the segments, broadest at the sides, 



sixth segment grey. Abdomen has sparse, short 



hairs, the longer hairs at the sides of first segment 



very inconspicuous. Hypopygium somewhat small, 



the basal part greyish, with a furrow, ovipositor 



_,. ^„ . , „ about as long as the basal part, thin and slightly 



Fig. 12. Antenna of -, t -xi, ^ Vi i • i -u 



P sulcatus 2 X 90 curved. Legs with lemora blackish, greyish 



pruinose, base and apex yellowish, tibiæ and 



tarsi yellow, the former a little infuscated about the middle, the last 



tarsal joint brownish; hind femora shining on posterior and postero- 



ventral side; the legs all short-haired, femora almost bare, middle 



femora quite slightly spinulose below. Wings very slightly tinged, 



stigma pale brown, a little shorter than next costal segment, middle 



cross- vein about at the first third of the discai cell. H alteres dark 



yellowish. 



Length about 3 mm. 



P. sulcatus is rare in Denmark, we have only one specimen, a 

 female. Dyrehaven ^^6 1884 (H. J. Hansen). 



Geographical distribution: — Besides from Denmark known only 

 from Dalmatia and the Pyrenees. 



Remarks: I am not quite sure with regard to the determination 

 of this species; it has the greyish bands on abdomen rather distinct, 

 it is quite similar to the female of terminalis and I should have deter- 



