62 Pipunculidae. 



Schin. F. A. I, 245. - 1894. Strobl, 1. c. 1. - 1897. Beck. 1. c. 97, 57. — Ate- 

 leneura velutina Macq. 1835. Suit. å BufE. II, 12, 1. - 1838. Meig. 1. c. VII, 

 148. — Pipunculus obscurus Zett. 1838. Ins. Lapp. 580, 9. 



Male. Vertex and frons black, but the latter silvery on an about 

 quadratic space above the antennæ; frons very narrow and most 

 narrow in the middle; epistoma silvery when seen from above. Occi- 

 piit black. Antennæ blackish or brownish, third joint oval, rounded 

 below, second joint with some long hairs above and below. Thorax 

 duU velvet black, clothed above with long black hairs, among which 

 two specially long dorsocentral hairs behind and bristly hairs at the 

 sides; scutellum with four long, bristly marginal hairs. Pleiira and 

 postscutellum blackish or greyish black, the latter with a grey trian- 

 gular spot; on mesopleura behind the suture some long hairs. Abdomen 

 velvet black, clothed with short black hairs above, long at the sides, 

 and at the sides of first segment a fan of still longer hairs. Hypopy- 

 gium not large, dull black, somewhat shining above and on the left 

 side, it has a longitudinal furrow above, and has long hairs at the end. 

 Legs black, anterior femora with a row of long black hairs on the 

 posteroventral side, especially long on middle femora, and hind 

 femora with a similar row on the anteroventral side in the apical 

 part, middle femora also with longish hairs on the anterior side; 

 tibiæ short-haired but hind tibiæ with some long hairs on the anterior 

 side about the middle. Wings more or less brown, stigma pale brown, 

 not reaching to the end of the mediastinal vein, middle cross-vein 

 situated before or below the end of the mediastinal vein, third costal 

 segment several times longer than the fourth, but the costal segments 

 varying, the second from of about the same length to considerably 

 longer than the third and this latter from about three or four to more 

 than six times as long as fourth. H alteres black. 



Female. Frons broader than in the male, but of the same colour, 

 distinctly hairy above; antennæ larger, but the third joint shorter, 

 roundish. Thorax and abdomen not velvet, but dull grey or greyish 

 black, with the hairs on thorax shorter. Hypopygium with a roundish, 

 knob-like, greyish basal part, ovipositor brownish red, longer than the 

 basal part, thick at the base and thus evenly passing into the basal 

 part. Legs black or greyish black, tibiæ and tarsi often paler, the 

 legs haired as in the male, but the hairs pale. Halteres yellow. 



The species varies somewhat, besides the variations in the wing 

 veins mentioned above it varies with regard to the colour of the legs 

 and the hairs; the tibiæ and tarsi may be more or less pale, sometimes 



