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Pjpunculidae. 



clothed all over with yellow hairs, at the margin of scutellum a little 

 longer hairs. Pleiira and postscutellum grey, propleiira with distinct 

 hairs. Abdomen black, shining, first segment with the hind margin 

 grey, the other segments with narrow velvet black front margins, 

 broadest on second segment and decreasing in breadth backwards. 

 Abdomen is clothed with yellow hairs, which are somewhat long at 

 the sides, longest forwards and especially on first segment. Hypo- 

 pygium large, black, a little brownish pruinose, with a vertical, long 

 and narrow impression or split, from which a 

 keel-shaped longitudinal fold protrudes. Legs 

 yellow, femora stout, with a broad black ring in 

 the middle so that only base and apex are yellow, 

 tibiæ more or less blackish or brownish on the 

 ventral side below middle, tarsi with the apical 

 joint blackish; all femora shining behind and 

 below; the legs short-haired, middle femora with 

 a longish, pale ciliation behind, and also front 

 and hind femora with a similar, less conspicuous 

 pubescense; the femora distinctly spinulose below 

 the apical part, with two rows of spinules. Wings 

 a little tinged, stigma pale brown, considerably 

 longer than next costal segment, middle cross- 

 vein at about the first third of the discai cell. 

 Halteres yellow. 



Female. Frons quite whitish with a very 

 slight elevated middle line ending in a small knob 

 above the antennæ; third joint of antennæ yellow. 

 Thorax with the humeral knob yellow and with 

 a distinct grey spot behind and inwards to the 

 humeri, stretching backwards along the sides and with a fme back- 

 wards prolongation on each side of the middle. Abdomen with first 

 segment grey and also the second more or less grey on the front part, 

 and with grey triangular lateral spots on the segments. Hypopygium 

 somewhat large, the basal part oval, black and shining, ovipositor 

 reddish, as long or slightly longer than the basal part, somewhat 

 strongly recurved. Legs generally much paler than in the male, 

 femora often nearly quite yellow only faintly dark obscured on the 

 middle, and they are scarcely so shining. Stigma about equal to the 

 next costal segment. 

 Length 4,5 — 5 mm. 



Fig. 15. Antenna of 

 P. varipes cj X 90. 



