Pipunculus. 



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Ve 1884 (H. J. Hansen). As my female is in a somewhat bad state 

 the description is partly taken from Becker. 



Geographical distribution : — Northern and middle Europe down 

 into Styria and on Corsica, towards the north to southern Sweden. 



17. P. rufipes Meig. 



1824. Meig. Syst. Beschr. IV, 21, 4. - 1844. Zett. Dipt. Scand. III, 

 959, 12 et 1849. VIII, 3207, 12 et 1859. XIII, 6059, 12. - 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 

 247. - 1869. Thoms. Opusc. Entom. II, 110, 3. - 1894. Strobl. Mittheil. Nat. 

 Ver. Steierm. XXX, 9. — 1897. Beck. Berl. Entom. Zeitschr. XLII, 89, 48, 

 Taf. II, Fig. 15 et 1900. XLV, 240, 48 et 1921. Wien. Ent. Zeitg. XXXVIII, 

 162, 163. - 1901. VeiT. Brit. Fhes VIII, 115, 21, fig. 112. - 1910. Kertész, 

 Cat. Dipt. VII, 380 {Dorylas). 



Male. Eyes not touching, vertex and upper part of frons black, 

 shining, silvery below above the antennæ; epistoma silvery. Occiput 

 grey, brownish black above. Antennæ blackish, 

 third joint white pubescent, long rostrate. Thorax 

 blackish brown, a little pruinose, somewhat 

 shining, humeral knob of the same colour; the 

 disc sparingly with fine hairs, only present as 

 dorsocentral rows and behind the humeri; at the 

 margin of scutellum the hairs not longer. Pleura 

 and postscutellum greyish black. Abdomen black, 

 somewhat shining, first segment grey; abdomen 

 has a very short, dense pubescence and sparse 

 longer brow^nish hairs, somewhat dense on the 

 apical half of fifth segment; at the sides of fifth 

 segment a fan of longer, partly pale hairs. Hypo- 

 pygium large, slightly pruinose, without apical 

 impression, the end claws reddish. Legs with 

 femora black, a little brownish at trochanters 

 and the apical part yellow, tibiæ yellow, some- 

 times with a slight infuscation about the middle, or with a large ring, 

 or the apical part black; tarsi yellow, a little darker towards apex 

 and the apical joint black; the femora dull; the legs short-haired, 

 femora practically bare, only middle femora with a double row of 

 very short spinules below the apical half. Wings rather long, more or 

 less brownish tinged, stigma absent, third costal segment about one 

 quarter of the fourth, middle cross-vein near the base of the discai 

 cell. H alteres yellow. 



Fig. 22. Antenna of 

 P. rufipes ^ X 90. 



