490 Records of the Indian Museum. [ Vor. Vil 
Pipunculus cinereo-aeneus, mihi, sp. nov. 
¢@. Lower Burma. Long. 4 mm. (without ovipositor). 
Head.—Front narrowed towards vertex until the eyes nearly 
touch. Frons and face silver grey seen from above; antennae 
bright yellow; eye facets distinctly larger in the vicinity of the 
facial groove. Back of head too damaged to describe. 
Thorax (somewhat damaged).—Blackish grey, sides light ash- 
grey with concolorous pleurae and metanotum. Scutellum aenous 
brown with some pale hairs on posterior border. 
Abdomen.—Blackish grey; the posterior borders of the seg- 
ments rather narrowly ash-grey, the colour widened at the sides and 
carried over to the underside; 6th segment bearing a large conical 
ash-grey process, ferruginous brown at tip, and from which projects 
a brown, pointed, shining, horny ovipositor. This appendage is 
curled under the belly and its tip reaches the middle of the 3rd 
segment. 
Legs.—Coxae brown, legs entirely brownish yellow; upper side 
of tarsi tips blackish. 
Wings.—Almost clear, stigma pale brown; internal transverse 
vein placed at one-third distance from the base of the discal cell; 
4th longitudinal vein running almost straight to the wing tip after 
leaving the posterior cross-vein. Halteres pale yellow. 
Described from one @ in the Indian Museum collection from 
Mergui, in fairly good condition. The species is quite distinct. 
Pipunculus nigronitens, mihi, sp. nov. 
@. Darjiling. Long. 3 mm. 
Head.—Vertex shining black, slightly elongated. Frons and 
face blackish, but if viewed from above the former appears greyish 
with a slight bluish tinge, and the latter nearly snow white. 
Antennae wholly black, but seen from above the tip of the 2nd 
joint and the apical part of the 3rd is more or less grey dusted. 
Arista black, thickened at base. Proboscis light brown. 
Thorax and scutellum, shining black, bare. Sides grey dusted, 
the colour carried across the metanotum. Humeri brownish yellow. 
Abdomen.—Shining black, Ist segment conspicuously grey 
dusted. Genitalia black, shining, belly black but less shining 
than the dorsum, 
Legs.—Nearly wholly yellow. Coxae black, tarsi tips blackish 
brown. 
Wings.—Ciear. ‘Third costal segment wholly brownish yellow ; 
longer than 4th segment. Anterior cross-vein placed just before 
one-third of the discal cell. The 4th longitudinal vein forming a 
wide curve before the posterior cross-vein, and distinctly bisinu- 
ate beyond. The first posterior cell rather narrowly open. 
Halteres dirty yellow, the clubs blackish. 
Described from a single ~ taken by me at Darjiling, 29-v-Io. 
In the Indian Museum. 
