PIPCNCULUS. 15 



side. Win;/s clear ; stigma weak, brownish ; anterior cross-veiu 

 at about one-third of the diseal ceJl ; halteres dirty yellow. 



Length, nearly 2h nun. 



Described from a unique c? fiom 8imla, x. 1908 (Jlowlctt). 



Tijpe sent lri)m tlie Pusa collection to the British Museum. 



l2. Pipiinculus chalybeus, sj). no\. (PI. I, fig. 4.) 



S . Head with vertex shining black ; eyes contiguous for a con- 

 siderable distance : Irons and face brilliantly shining white ; 

 antennas black, 3rd joint yellowish, shining white when viewed 

 from above ; proboscis with very large orange labella ; palpi dark 

 brown ; occiput very slightly puffed out, upper part flush with 

 vertex. Thorax (dorsum aud scutelhim damaged) apparently dark 

 grey; metanotum and ])leura3 ash-grey. Abdomen dark grey, 

 almost blackish, with a bluish tinge and traces of grey dust 

 towards the sides; 1st segment black at base, hinder half ash- 

 grey ; 5th segment no longer than 4th, lightly grey-dusted. 

 Genitalia very large, wider than last segment, shining dark brown. 



Fig. 7. — Pipiinculus rhali/lieiis, Eruii., sp. n., wing. 



Lef/s: coxjB ash-grey; femora darker grey, tips orange; fore tibise 

 dull orange ; posterior ones bluish-grey except at base and tips ; 

 tarsi orange, tips dark. Wings pale j^rey ; stigma brownish ; 

 anterior cross-vein distinctly before middle of diseal cell ; halteres 

 dirty brownish-yellow. 



Length, 2| mm. 



Described from a single J in slightly damaged condition, from 

 Cherambadi, AVynaad, x. 1913 (Howlett). 



Type presented by Mr. T. B. Fletcher to the British ^Museum. 



Since being described the type has been accidentally further 

 injured. 



A specimen in the Pusa collection from Poinsettia, Cherambadi, 

 Wynaad, x. 1013 (IloivJett), luaj be of the same species. It is 

 distinctly larger and the body, especially the abdomen, is very dis- 

 tinctly bluish. 



13. Pipunculus filicornis, Lnm. 



Pijnmciilusjdicontis, Iinnietli, l!ec. fiul. ^Mus, \ii, p. 48!* (1'.'12). 



2 . Head with frons and face very narrow, still narrow^'r at the 

 level of the antenuje, almost wholly with a greyish-white reflection. 



