PIPUNCULUS. 19 



18. Pipunculus qiiavtarius, Brun. 



Pipimculus quttrtariux^ Ikuiietti, Rec. lud. Mus. vii, p. 493 (1912). 



$ . Head with i'roiis sliiiiing black, wide, lower part with white 

 shimmer as seen from below; face with white sliimmer; proboscis 

 brownish-yellow ; eves with the facets contiguous to the region 

 of the antenna) very much enlarged; antennae blackish, 3rd joint 

 yellowish-white with long white style ; arista very long, black ; 

 back of head considerably puffed out, cinereous-grey, with a ten- 

 dency to whitish on postocular orbits, bearing a slight fringe of 

 pale hairs. Thorav dark cinereous-grey, slightly shining ; sides 

 of thorax a little lighter; scutellum coucolorous with dorsum; 

 metanotnin light grey. Ahdomen blackish-grey, practically bare, 

 but microscopically pubescent, slightly shining ; 1st segment 

 grey ; 5th segment widest ; ovipositor of moderate length, shining 

 brown, with a little hair at its base; venter cinereous-grey, 

 unmarked. Ler/s mainly black; tips of fore coxae, tips of all 

 femora I'atber broadly, basal third and tips of tibia", and apical 

 part of all tarsi, black ; femora not shining and absolutely bare. 

 Wings clear ; stigma absent, but the 3id costal space much 

 reduced, and the veins limiting it somewhat thickened ; anterior 

 cross-vein placed slightly before one-fourth of the discal cell ; 4th 

 longitudinal running nearly straight from its junction with the 

 posterior cross-vein up to the 3rd vein, which it almost meets 

 rather sooner than usual, thence running parallel with it to the 

 border for a longer distance than in most species ; halteres pale 

 brownish-yellow. 



Lenr/th, 1| mm. 



Described from a unique $ in the Indian Museum, taken in 

 Calcutta, 13. xii. 1907. 



A second speciuien in the same collection may possibly be this 

 species, varying only in being larger, with the back of the head 

 shining black, instead of greyish, and the abdomen more blackish 

 and more shining. Taken at Simla, 7. v. 1910 (AunanduJe). 



19. Pipunculus mirabilis, Bruu. 



l\'])it/icii/us inirahili.i, Drunetti, Rec. Iml. Mus. vii, p. 492 ( 1912). 



9 . Head with front leather narrower at vertex, which is black; 

 frons greyisli-white, lace below anteunie similar, and with a 

 silvery-white sheen when seen from above ; mouth light brown ; 

 eyes light brown; the facets in the vicinity of the antennie much 

 larger : (antenuje missing) ; occiput rather well pulTvil out. 

 Thorax blackish-aeneous; humeri yellowish-brow n ; edge of dorsum 

 and sieles of tliorax greyisli ; a broad stripe of grey with silver 

 riflections extends across the nietanotum and embraces the 

 metapleura vn eacli side; scutelhnn light yellowish-brown, the 

 po>terior part and margin with long pale pubescence. Aidomen 

 ash-grev; on the 2n(I S'^gnnMit is a large roiuid brown spot in 



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