Pipunculus. 



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mined it so, had it not been for the frons which is black and shining 

 above and the stigma which is a httle shorter than next costal segment. 



7. P. terminalis Thoms, 



1869. Thoms. Opusc. Entom. II, 115, 11. - 1897. Beck. Berl. Entom. 

 Zeitschr. XLII, 47, 13 et 1900. XLV, 222, 13 et 1921. Wien. Ent. Zeitg. 

 XXXVIII, 125, 127. - 1901. Verr. Brit. Flies, VIII, 92, 8. - 1910. Kertész, 

 Gat. Dipt. VII, 382 (Dorylas). — P. fiiscipes Strobl, 1894. Mittheil. Ver Steierm. 

 XXX, 4. 



Male. Frons and epistoma silvery. Occiput grey, very slightly 

 brownish above. Antennæ with the third joint brownish, distinctly 

 white or silvery pubescent, with a long, fme 

 rostrum. Thorax diill brown, scutellum more grey- 

 ish, humeral knob yellowish and behind it thorax 

 a little greyish; the disc has sparse, fme, though 

 not short hairs only as dorsocentral rows and 

 behind the humeri, the hairs are not longer at 

 the margin of scutellum. Pleura and postscutellum 

 grey. Abdomen brown, dull, with grey hind mar- 

 gins to the segments, broadest and palest on first 

 segment and broad and confluent at the sides. 

 Abdomen has sparse, short hairs, at the sides of 

 first segment an inconspicuous bunch of longer, 

 black hairs. Hypopygium large, blackish, slightly 

 shining and greyish pruinose; it has a small and 

 low roundish apical impression, sometimes almost 

 or quite disappearing, the end claws reddish. Legs 

 yellow, femora with a broad blackish, greyish 

 pruinose middle ring, or they are more black with 

 only the base indistinctly and the apex yellow, 

 tibiæ a little infuscated about the middle and last tarsal joint dark; 

 hind femora shining on the posterior and posteroventral side; the 

 legs all short-haired, femora nearly nude, only hind femora with a 

 row of longer, fme hairs below; middle femora a little spinulose 

 below the apical half. Wings a little tinged, stigma brown, as long or 

 fully as long as the next costal segment; middle cross-vein anterior 

 to the first third of the discai cell. H alteres brownish. 



Female. Frons narrow, quite grey, only vertical triangle black; 

 there is a fine longitudinal keel from the vertex ending with a small 



Fig. 13. Antenna of 

 P. terminalis ^ X 110. 



