8 PIPUNCULIDiE. 



ail bluish-grey, bent under the venter and carrying a moderately 

 long reddish-brown shining process bearing a bunch of hairs near 

 the tip. Legs dark blackish-brown ; extreme base and tips of 

 femora pale yellowish-brown ; tibife blackish-brown, with bases 

 rather broadly, and tips rather narrowly yello^\isb-bro\v'u ; tarsi 

 dark brown above, light brown below ; femora with silvery-white 

 sliimmer, when seen in certain lights. Legs microscopically 

 pubescent ; uo ciliation behind middle femora ; hind femora not 

 shining on inner side. Wings distinctly pale brown ; second 

 costal segment quite clear and transparent; third twice as long as 

 the fourth, the stigma distinct, but ill-defined on inner side ; 4th 

 longitudinal vein curved outwards in a bow after quitting tlie- 

 posterior cross-vein and possessing an appendix, commencing as 

 far from the junction of the 4th longitudinal with the posterior 

 cross-vein as the length of that cross-vein, and extending more 

 than half-way to the wing-border : anterior cross-vein exactly 

 over centre of discal cell. Basal part of wing rather clear, but 

 extreme base pale yellowish ; halteres brownish-yellow. 



Length, 3 mm. (excl. head and ovipositor). 



Described from a single $ in the Indian Museum from Mar- 

 gherita, Assam. 



I would not have described as new a decapitated specimen, but 

 for the strikingly distinctive characters of this species, in which 

 the furcation of the 4th longitudinal vein makes it impossible for 

 it to be confounded with any otiier Oriental species except 

 amhoinalis, Walk. 



This species must be near furcatiis, Egg., occurring in Europe, 

 but that species has wholly yellowish tibiae and tarsi. 



Walker's species mnhoincdis would be almost unrecognizable 

 from the brief description, except for the appendiculatiou of the 

 " proebrachial " vein (4th longitudinal), a character which I do not 

 know to occur in any other eastern species but these two. 

 Herr Kertesz does not inention this character in his notes on 

 amboinalis (Ann. Mus. Hung, i, p. 470), founded on an examination 

 of Walker's type by Miss Bicardo, but I presume he would have 

 called attention to the fact had Walker's description been in error. 



P. appendiculatus is therefore distinguished by the mainly 

 black legs and the slightly different (but, I should think, consis- 

 tent) coloration of the abdomen. The latter might equally well 

 be described as black, with grey posterior borders to the segments 

 (interrupted in the middle), this colour being continued over the 

 sides and across the venter. 



4. Pipunculus flavocinctus, Bmn. 



Pipunculus Jlnvocinctus, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. vii, p. 488 (1912). 



6 . Head with eyes contiguous for a considerable distance ; 

 back of head, frons and face wholly black ; antennae with 1st and 



