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Pipunculidae. 



Male. Eyes touching or apparently touching for a long space, 

 but a continuation from the vertex may be traced far down; vertex 

 black, frons silvery, black just at the upper corner; epistoma silvery. 

 Occiput black. Antennæ black, third joint oval, rounded below, 

 silvery pruinose, second joint with long hairs 

 above and below. Thorax velvet black, shining 

 a little greyish behind the humeri; it is clothed 

 with longish, black or brownish black hairs, 

 at the margin of scutellum about four bristles. 

 Pleura and postscutellum greyish; mesopleura 

 with longish hairs behind the suture. Abdomen 

 velvet black with rather large, grey triangular 

 spots at the lateral hind corners of the seg- 

 ments. Abdomen is clothed with black hairs, 

 short on the dorsum though longer at the hind 

 margins, but long at the sides and especially 

 at the sides of first segment. Hypopygium of 

 medium size, dull black, with a longitudinal 

 furrow or split above to the right; it has 

 longish hairs at the end and on the left side. 

 Legs black, a little greyish pruinose, the knees 

 and just apex of tibiæ yellowish; anterior femora with a long black 

 ciliation behind, hind femora with a similar one on the anterior side 

 and with longish hairs on the posteroventral side, hind tibiæ with a 

 long anterodorsal ciliation. Wings slightly tinged, stigma brown, 

 of about the length of next costal segment, middle cross-vein at the 

 middle of the discai cell, the end of the discai vein forked, the lower 

 branch of the fork not reaching the margin. Halteres yellowish brown. 



Fig. 36. Antenna of 

 V. aucta (J X 100. 



Fig. 37. Wing of V. aucta ?. 



Female. Frons whitish grey. Thorax grey, dull, with four weak 

 darker stripes, the two median abbreviated behind, the hairs a little 

 shorter than in the male. Abdomen blackish, with triangular, grey 



