18 PIPUNCULIDjE. 



segment conspicuously grey-dusted; genitalia black, shining; 

 venter black, but less shining than the dorsum. Legs nearly 

 wholly yellow ; coxae black ; tips of tarsi blackish-brown. jN"© 

 ciliation behind middle femora ; hind femora not shining on under 

 side. Wings clear ; third costal segment wholly brownish-yellow ; 

 longer than 4th segment ; anterior cross-vein placed just before 

 one-third of the discal cell ; 4th longitudinal vein forming a wide 

 curve before posterior cross-vein, and distinctly bisinuate beyond : 

 first posterior cell rather narrowly open ; halteres dirty yellow, 

 the clubs blackish. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Described from a single S in the Indian Museum, taken by me 

 at Darjiling, 29. v. 1910. 



17, PipTinculus luteipes, sp. nov. 



2 . Head with irons rather broad, slightly widening from vertex 

 downwards, distinctly though not greatly contracted throughout 

 that portion in coutact with the exceptionally enlarged eye-facets, 

 blackish-grey, but the whole frons with a silvery-white shimmer 

 if viewed from above ; face wholly, brilliantly shining white. 

 Antennae black; 3rd joint considerably elongate, with long pointed 

 tip, bright yellow, with a white shimmer viewed from above. 

 Mouth-parts withdrawn ; occiput moderately puffed out, blackish 

 grey, white-dusted laterally. Thorax and scutellum moderately 

 black, dusted with olive-brown. Abdomen ash-grey; 1st segment 

 with a basal olive-browai band ; 2nd segment wholly ash-grey ; 

 3rd, 4th and 5th with olive-brown bands basally, the colour not 

 or barely reaching the side margins and then only basally, but 

 extending posteriorly nearly or quite to the next segment. Geni- 

 talia very large, fully as wide as last segment, with a deep groove 

 on upper side of the globular basal piece : ovipositor reddish- 

 brown. Legs wholly rather pale yellow to the tips of the tarsi, 

 but the minute black bristles on the joints of the tarsi give them 

 a slightly darkened appearance ; claws much lengthened, pulvilli 

 pale yellow, very greatly enlarged. Wings pale grey ; stigma pale 

 brownish, ill-defined ; anterior cross-vein distinctly before middle 

 of discal cell ; halteres pale yellow. 



Length, 2^ mm. 



Described from a perfect 5 from Pusa, Bengal, 11. iv. 1913. 



Ty2'>e given by Mr, T. B. Fletcher to the British Museum. 



This must be near P. hepaticolor, Beck., owing to the highly 

 developed claws and pulvilli, but that species has a black streak on 

 the upper side of the femora, the wings are slightly infuscated, 

 the stigma conspicuous and the tip of the 3rd antennal joint is 

 blunted, not considerably elongated. P. hepaticolor was described 

 from Singapore, 



