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Pipunculidae. 



Female. I do not know the female, but according to the descrip- 

 tions it is similar; abdomen except first segment shining, hypopygium 

 with a short ovipositor. 



Length 4,5 mm. 



P. Braueri is very rare in Denmark, we have only three males, 

 two taken on Frederiksberg in earlier time (Stæger), and one taken 

 in Geel Skov on ^Ve 1921 (the author). The species must be very near 

 to flavipes, but if the two species are really distinct, our species will, 

 as seen from the description of abdomen, be Braueri. I think it is 

 one of our specimens which Zetterstedt mentions 1. c. VIII, thus con- 

 firming that his flavipes var. a is Braueri. I have seen the species in 

 Zetterstedt's collection, and the specimens I saw are in my opinion 

 Braueri. 



Geographical distribution: — Northern and middle Europe down 

 into Styria, towards the north it seems to go to the northern Sweden. 



Entom. II, 117, 17, 



15. P. semifumosus Kow. 



1887. Kow. Wien. Ent. Zeitg. VI, 149, 7. - '1894. Strobl, Mittlieil. Nat. 

 Ver. Steierm. XXX, 6. — 1897. Beck. Berl. Entom. Zeitschr. XLII, 70, 32 et 

 1900. XLV, 229, 32 et 1921. Wien. Ent. Zeitg. XXXVIII, 152, 153. - 1910. 

 Kertész, Cat. Dipt. VII, 381 {Dorylas). — P. flavipes Thoms. 1869. Opiisc. 

 p. p. (excl. varr.). — 1894. Strobl, 1. c. 8. 



Male. Frons and epistoma grey. Occiput 

 grey, brown above. Antennæ brownish, third 

 joint short, almost not pointed, nearly rounded, 

 second joint with long hairs above and below. 

 Thorax brown, dullish, a little shining behind, 

 especially on scutellum, the humeral knob of the 

 same colour and thorax not grey behind it; the 

 disc very sparingly with fine hairs, only forming 

 dorsocentral rows and present behind the humeri ; 

 the hairs at the margin of scutellum inconspicu- 

 ous. Pleura and postscutellum grey. Abdomen 

 black, the first three segments velvet, the third 

 shining at the sides and the rest shining, only 

 the fourth a little dull on the front margin; first 

 segment a little grey at the sides. Abdomen is 

 sparingly clothed with quite short hairs, at the 

 sides of first segment a bunch of small hairs. 

 Hypopygium not large, a little brownish pru- 



Fig. 19. Antenna of 



P. semifumosus cj" 



X115. 



