PIPUNCULUS. 



13 



before middle of discal cell ; lialteres : stems yellowish, clubs 

 blackish. 



Length, 2] mm. 



Described from a single J , Khasi Hills, 1000-3000 ft., iii. 1907. 



Type sent to the British Museum from the Pusa collection. 



9. Pipnnculus transversus, sp. nov. (PI. 1, fig. 3.) 



cJ . Head with eyes touching for half the distance Irom vertex 

 to antennae; frons blackish, with greyish tomentum on lower 

 part ; face silvery-white when seen from above ; antennae yellowish, 

 with grey tomentum, 3i-d joint moderately jiointed ; occiput light 

 grey, moderately putted out. Thorax and scutellum dull blackish- 

 aeneous, covered with cinereous-grey tomentum; pleura; rather 

 light grey. Abdomen dark olive-brown, nearly black, grev on 

 binder part of segments towards sides, also very narrowly on hind 

 margins; 5th segment nearly twice as long as 4th, light grey, but 

 darker at base, the segment considerably narrower at tip than at 



Fig. 4. — Pipnncxilus transversus. Brim., sp. ii., wine 



base; genitalia cinereous-grey, less broad than hind part ofStli seg- 

 ment. Legs mainly black; femora broadly orange at tip; tibiae 

 orange with a broad rather irregular median hhick ring occupying 

 the greater part of the surface ; fore tarsi mainly orange, posterior 

 tarsi blackish with tips of segments very narrowly orange ; inner 

 sides of hind femora shining black; no ciliation behind middle 

 fen)ora. Wimjs clear; stign)a brown; anterior cross-vein at or 

 just beyond one-thinl of the discal cell ; lialteres dirty yellow. 



Length, 3.J- mm. 



Described from 2 c5' c? in the Pusa collection from Pusa, 

 30. iv. 1914 {type) and I 9. iii. 19 14. 



Type sent to the British Museum. 



10. Pipunculus extensus, sp. nov. 



cJ 5 . Head in S with eyes contiguous for a moderately long 

 distance, vertex very small ; frons and face silvery white w hen 

 seen from above, an indistinct median black ground-colour stripe 

 on the former ; antenna; dark, 3rd joint whitish grey-dustwd, 

 arista shining black ; occiput a little puffed out behind. In $ , 

 frons as wide as face ; 3rd antenna! joint rather longer, more 

 pointed, the tip slightly turned up ; front facets of eyes 



