THREE NEW SPECIES OF PIPUNCULID/E (DIPTERA) 

 FROM PANAMA 1 

 By J. R. MALLOCH 



BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



The new species herein described were collected by Mr. August 

 Busck, while a member of the Smithsonian Biological Survey of 

 the Panama Canal Zone. 



PIPUNCULUS INTERRUPTUS, new species 



Male. — Eyes confluent for a longer distance than length of f rons ; 

 f rons gray dusted ; face slightly narrowing from upper part to end 

 of upper fourth, then parallel-sided to mouth mar- 

 gin, gray dusted ; occiput gray dusted, not much 

 swollen, rather broader above than below ; anten- 

 nae black, third joint brownish, second with 

 numerous hairs on dorsal surface and 2-3 

 on ventral, third joint not acuminate, obtusely 

 pointed, arista brown, elongate dilated at base ; 

 proboscis brown ; palpi yellow, brown at tip and 

 somewhat spatulate. Mesonotum black, sub- 

 opaque, brown-gray dusted, especially anteriorly 

 and laterally ; humeri black ; pleurae black, sub- 

 opaque, gray dusted ; scutellum sub-opaque, mar- 

 ginal hairs weak. Abdomen velvety opaque black, 

 all segments with narrow, interrupted, white pol- 

 linose hind-marginal fasciae ; basal fringe black, 

 all segments with distinct, black, lateral, rather 

 long hairs ; fifth segment one-third longer than 

 fourth ; hypopygium viewed from above one-half 

 as long as fifth segment, left side slightly the lon- 

 ger, depression central, large and distinct, ven- 

 tral processes yellowish with short pale hairs. 

 Legs black, apices of fore coxae, extreme apices of femora and 

 bases of tibiae yellow ; all femora with ventral, short, black thorns, mid 



P. INTERRl rpTUS, ■•■ 



1 This paper is the fourteenth dealing with the results 

 Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone. 



if the Smithsonian 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 60, No. 1 



