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Pipunculidae. 



with fine hairs, forming only dorsocentral rows and present behind 

 the humeri; at the margin of scutellum a little longer hairs. Pleura 

 and postscutellum greyish. Abdomen black, shining, 

 the three first segments velvet and a very narrow 

 velvet front margin on foiirth and fifth; the segments 

 have brownish grey lateral spots, which are large for- 

 wards and on first and second segments stretch up- 

 wards on the dorsum. Abdomen has sparse, short, 

 brownish black hairs and on the sides of first segment 

 a little bunch of slightly longer black hairs. Hypopy- 

 gium not large, brownish pruinose, with a somewhat 

 large, roimdish apical impression. Legs yellow, femora 

 with a broad black ring, tibiæ a little infuscated about 

 the middle and last tarsal joint brownish; all femora 

 shining below and behind; the legs short-haired, femora 

 with a faint, longish, pale ciliation behind, most devel- 

 oped on middle femora; all femora with a double row 

 of very small spiniiles below at apex, on middle femora 

 on the two thirds. Wings a little brownish tinged, 

 stigma brown, longer than the next costal segment, middle cross- 

 vein a little before the middle of the discai cell. Halteres brownish 

 yellow. 



Female. Frons somewhat broad, broadest in the middle, grey, 

 black above; antennæ with the third joint longer rostrate than in 

 the male; abdomen shining, with grey lateral spots; hypopygium 



Fig. 20. 

 Antenna of 

 P. pulchripes 



c?X 115. 



Fig. 21. Wing of P. pulchripes ^ . 



large, black and shining, the reddish ovipositor short and thin, 

 nearly straight. Legs as in the male, but tibiæ not or almost not 

 infuscated. Wings with the stigma shorter than next costal segment. 

 Halteres yellow. 



Length 3,2 mm. 



P. pulchripes is rare in Denmark, I know only one male from 

 Geel Skov ^U 1916 (the author) and a pair taken at Vemmetofte 



