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Pipunciilidae. 



24. P. sylvaticus Meig. 



1824. Meig. Syst. Beschr. IV, 20, 3. — 1838. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 579, 5 et 

 1844. Dipt. Scand. III, 956, 9 et 1849. VIII, 3206, 9 et 1859. XIII, 6058, 9. 



- 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 232. - 1869. Thoms. Opusc. Entom. II, 109, 1. - 1894. 

 Strobl, Mittheil. Nat. Ver. Steierm. XXX, 11. - 1897. Beck. Berl. Entom. 

 Zeitschr. XLII, 83, 40, Taf. II, Fig. 16 et 1900. XLV, 236, 40 et 1921. Wien. 

 Ent. Zeitg. XXXVIII, 164. - 1901. Verr. Brit. Flies VIII, 124, 27, fig. 117. 



— 1910. Kertész, Cat. Dipt. VII, 382 (Donjlas). — 1920. Collin, Ent. Month. 

 Mag. LVI, 274, 4. — P. hirticoUis Beck. Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1910, 657. 



Male. Eyes touching, vertex black, frons whitish yellow, about 

 as high as the eye-suture, epistoma whitish. Occiput grey below, 

 black and shining on the upper half. Antennæ with 

 the third joint yellowish brown, whitish pruinose, 

 somewhat long rostrate. Thorax brownish black, 

 pruinose, more or less shining; humeral knob yellow- 

 ish; the disc has fine, somewhat long, dark hairs 

 as dorsocentral rows and at the sides, the hairs at 

 the margin of scutellum short. Pleura and post- 

 scutellum blackish, a little pruinose, somewhat 

 shining, the latter grey above and at the sides. 

 Abdomen black or greenish black, a little pruinose, 

 somewhat shining, first segment dull greyish; ab- 

 domen is clothed with distinct and not very sparse 

 Fig. 26. Antenna ^^. j^^^ g^ ^^ f^f^j^ segment, the fan of hairs at 

 of P. sylvaticus cJ , . , „ ^ , ■ tt 



■^\l2 ^^® &\åQ% of first segment rather conspicuous. Hypo- 



pygium somewhat large, conical, black and some- 

 what pruinose, it has a long and narrow, split-like oblique apical im- 

 pression towards the right, the end claws are yellowish at apex and 

 stretching into a semicircular excision in the fourth ventral segment. 



Fig. 27. Wing of P. sylvaticus (^ . 



Legs black, apex of femora and the basal part of tibiæ yellow, tarsi 

 yellow with last joint dark; femora pruinose, hind femora shining 

 behind; the legs haired as usual, middle femora with a double row 

 of small spinules below the apical part and a similar one just per- 



