as Mr. F. M. van der Wulp on 



11. Holcocephala pundulata , n. sp. $. 



Thorax cinereous with black points ; abdomen and legs rufous ; 

 antennre and tarsi black ; wings brown. 



Length 5 mm. 



Head (PI. II, figs. 12 and 13) grey ; front and face nearly as broad 

 as the eyes ; ocellar tubercle and a spot above the oral margin, 

 black ; raystax yellowish, limited to the oral margin. Antennae 

 black ; third joint cylindrical, much longer than the basal joints ; 

 terminal style as thick and nearly as long as the third joint. The 

 short proboscis and palpi black. Thorax and scutellum cinereous ; 

 thoracic dorsum with hardly any indication of dark stripes, but with 

 six distinct, slightly excavated, shining black points ; the thorax is 

 strongly convex and has a very short, yellow pilosity, liut no bristles ; 

 scutellum likewise without Itristles. Abdomen elongate, subcylin- 

 drical, rufous, with erect yellow hairs ; genitalia rather small. Legs 

 rufous ; tip of the femora and tibife, and the whole tarsi, black ; the 

 tibiae and the underside of the femora with whitish bristly hairs ; 

 first joint of the hind tarsi slightly enlarged, clothed on the underside 

 with a compact, short, golden-yellow j^ilosity. Halteres rufous. 

 Wings (fig. 14) l)lackish-brown, more obscure at the base and along 

 the costa ; auxiliary vein elongate, terminating in the costa at a short 

 distance from the end of the first vein ; second vein straight ; all the 

 posterior cells open ; the fourth posterior cell unusually broad ; 

 small cross-vein before the middle of the discal cell ; third basal cell 

 narrowly open at the margin of the wing. 



Two male specimens from A.den. 



12. Stichopogon inconstans, Wied. 



Thereva inconstans, Wied. Auss. Zweifl. i, p. 558. 



A single female specimen from Haithalhim. 



Wiedemann wrongly placed this species in the genus 

 Thereva, but before the publication of his book discovered 

 his error, as in the index (p. 596) he brings it into 

 Dasypogon. His description is quite applicable to the 

 specimen before me ; the only ground for doubt as to the 

 correctness of this identification being his reference 

 regarding the neuration of the wings to a figure in 

 Meigen's System. Beschr. vol. ii, Tabl. 15, f 8, repre- 



