10 PIPUNCULIDiE. 



shoulders, side margins and hind margin, also the pleurae and 

 raetanotum wholly, ash-grey ; sciitellum brownish-grey. Abdomen 

 dark ash-grey ; a broad dark olive-brown basal baud, narrowing at 

 the sides, on each segment, extending in the centime nearly or 

 quite to the next segment ; base of abdomen more or less greyish ; 

 venter mainly dark grey. Genitalia in S blackish, shining, of 

 moderate size; in $ blackish, with a long reddish-brown 

 ovipositor. Lerjs : coxae greyish ; femora rather darker grey ; 

 trochanters, tips of all femora and base also of hind pair, orange; 

 inner sides of liind femora whollv shining black; tibiae and tarsi 

 orange, tips of latter blackish. Wings pale grey, stigma brownish, 

 rather long ; antei-ior cross-vein barely before middle of discal 

 ceil ; halteres yellow. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Eedescribed from a number of specimens of both sexes ; 

 apparently a widely distributed species ; tvpe described from 

 Colombo, 28. ii. 1902. 



Darjiling, 29. ix. 1908 {Brunetti) ; Allahabad, 29. x. 1906 (ffon-- 

 lett) ; Calcutta, not uncommon, 2. x.-22. xi. 1907 ; Port Canning, 

 6. xii. 1907 ; Paresnath, AY. Bengal, 4500 ft., 11. iv. 1909 (Annan- 

 dale); Bhagalpur, Bengal, 16. ii. 1910 {ChaudJiitri) ■ Puri. 

 18-19.1.1908 (Annandaie) ; Pusa, 7. i. 1914, 24. iv. 1913, 30. iv. 

 1914, 10. xii. 1912 ; Mangaldai District, Assam-Bhutan Frontier, 

 2. i. 1911 {Kemp) ■ Eangoon, 23. xii. 1904-3. i. 1905 {Brunetti). 



6. Pipunculus major, sp. uov. (PI. I, fig. 1.) 



(S ? . Head with eyes touching in S for less than half the dis- 

 tance from the ratlier large elongate vertex to the antennae; frons 

 and face silvery-white when seen from above ; antennae light 

 brown, with a little white shimmer when seen from above, 

 arista black ; back of head only moderately puffed out, 

 greyish round margin. Frons in 2 fis wide as face. Thorax dull 

 blackish, with traces of a thin cinereous-brown covering of 

 tomentum ; a little greyish about the shoulders ; sides and pleurae 

 more or less ash-grey ; scutellum dull black ; metanotum ash- 

 grey. Abdomen in S with 1st segment ash-grey, dirty black at 

 base; 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments dark slate-grey, with a shining 

 black basal band filling about half the segment and extending to 

 the sides, which latter are ash-grey, except at the base of each ; 

 5th segment nearly twice as long as 4th, mainly light grey or ash- 

 grey, broadlv black at base ; genitalia very small, mainly concealed. 

 In § , light grey, nearly ash-grey ; 1st segment as in c? ; 2nd, 3rd 

 and 4th with a narrow ill-defined black basal band ; 5th segment 

 not much longer than 4th ; basal segment of genitalia appearing 

 like a 6th abdominal segment and of the same coloration. Legs 

 black, tips of femora rather broadly, base and tips of tibiae very 

 broadly, orange ; middle tarsi orange, except the last joint, which 

 is black ; fore and hind tarsi brown on basal half, black on apical 



