piruNcuM'S!. 17 



ferrugiiious-bfown at tip, from which pi'ojects a brown pointed 

 shining horny ovipositor, which is curled under the venter, its tip 

 reaching the middle of the 3rd segment. Legs brownish-yellow ; 

 coxae brown; upper side of tips of tarsi blackish. No ciliation 

 behind middle femora ; hind femora not shining on inner side. 

 Wiiujs almost clear, stigma pale brown; anterior cross- vein placed 

 at one-third from the base of the discal cell : 4th longitudinal 

 vein running almost stniight to the wing-tip after leaving the 

 posterior cross-vein ; halteres pale yellow. 



Lemjtli, 4 mm., without ovipositor. 



Described from one 5 in the Indian Museum from Mergui, 

 Lower Burma. 



15. Pipunculns annulifemur, sp. nov. 



S . Head : eyes dark red : vertical triangle black, frons dull 

 black, lower part with a somewhat quadrate greyish dust-spot ; face 

 dull black, lower half appearing grey when viewed from above. 

 Antennaj didl yejlowish ; 3rd joint distinctly pointed, moderately 

 long and almost sub-triangular. Occiput moderately produced 

 behind eye-margins, black, with a little grey dust. Thorax 

 moderately shinnig black, middle of dorsum vi-ith yellowish-brown 

 dust and a little pale pubescence ; pleurae blackish with some 

 greyish dust. Abdomen shining black ; a very Uttle yellowish 

 pubescence towards sides; genitalia with a yellowish tinge. Legs 

 mainly yellow ; coxae black, also a broad median band on femora 

 (possibly incomplete in individuals); tarsi darker towards tips. 

 All the femora slightly shining and with a row of very small 

 bristles on about the apical half of the under side. Wings clear ; 

 stigma very pale yellow ; anterior cross-vein at about two-fifths of 

 the discal chII ; halteres yellowish. 



Length, 24-3^ mm. 



Described from 2 J cf iu the British Museum, presented by the 

 Bureau of Entomology. 



Bangalore, Mysore State, South India, about 3t>00 ft. 



16. Pipiinculus nigronitens, Brun. 



Pipunculiis niyronitcns, Brunetti, Rec. Iiid. Mas. vii, p. 490 (1912). 



S . Head with vertex shining black, slightly elongated ; frons 

 and face blackish, but if viewed from above the former ap|)ears 

 grnyish with a slight bluish tinge, and the latter nearly snow- 

 white ; occiput slightly puffed out behind; antennai wholly black 

 but seen from above tlie tip of the 2iid joint aiul the apicfd part 

 of the 3ril are more or less grey-dusted ; arista black, thickened at 

 b.ise ; proboscis light brown. Thorax and scutellum nhining 

 black, bare ; sides grey-dusted, the colour carried at-ross the meta- 

 notum ; iiumeri brownish-yellow. Abdomen shining black, 1st 







