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PIPUIvCULID^. 



enormously eularged. Thorax aud scutellum cinereous; pleurae 

 nearly slate-grey; nietanotuin ash-grey. Abdomen ash-grey, with 

 a transverse blackish band on base of each segment reaching to 

 the sides, widened in the centre, but not sufficiently to reach the 

 next segment; sides of abdomen curving considerably under the 

 blackish venter ; genitalia rather small. Legs all black, except base 

 of tibia? which is dull orange ; brownish-yellow pubescence below 



Fig. 5. — Tipunculus e.vtensus, Brun., sp. n., wing. 



hind tarsi ; inner sides of hind femora shining black ; no ciliation 

 behind middle femora. Wimjs nearly clear ; stigma very pale arid 

 indistinct ; anterior cross-vein more nearly at one-third than at 

 the middle of the discal cell ; halteres black. 



Lenr/th, 3-3^ mm. 



Des'cribed from a pair taken " in cop. while hovering motionless 

 in tlie air, Pasa," 28. iii. 1912 (Hoidett). 



Types sent to the British Museum, 



11. Pipunculus uniformis, Brun. (PI. I, fig. 5.) 



Fiptmcidus tiniformis, Brunetti, Rec. lad. Mus. xiii, p. 8:3 (1915). 



(5 . Bead with eyes contiguous for about half the distance from 

 the moderately large vertex to the antennae; frons and face 

 brownish, silvery-white when seen from above ; antennse brown, 

 3rd joint, at least at the narrowed and lengthened tip, with white 

 pubescence ; arista black ; occiput moderately puffed out, blackish- 

 grey. Thorax rather dark cinereous-brown ; sides dull ; metanotum 

 (rrey. Abdomen rather dark cinereous-brown ; 1st segment a 



Fig. 6. — F'qmnculus uniformis, Brun., wing. 



little greyish on hind corners ; 5th segment barely longer than 

 4th; genitalia concolorous above, large, blacker and shining below, 

 as broad as last segment. Legs mainly black ; tips of femora 

 brownish-yellow ; base and tips of tibise brownish-yellow, 

 apparently to an irregular extent ; tarsi more or less brownish- 

 yellow, darker towards tips ; hind femora shining black on inner 



