PIPUNCULID^E. 



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Pipunculus fjiscipes from Thamnotettix {Cicadula) virescens. 

 They are elliptical, thick, depressed, narrowed at either 

 end, naked and small. The puparia are somewhat small- 

 er, oval, obtuse at either end, shining pitchy black. 

 Chalarus spurius is said to be parasitic on a species of 

 Typhlocyba. 



Fig. 96. Pipunculidse. 1, Pipunculus, wing; 2, Pipunculus, head; 

 3, Chalarus, wing; 4, Verrallia, wing; 5, Verrallia, head (Verrall). 



TABLE OF GENERA. 



1. Posterior cross- vein absent (3) . .... Chalarus. 

 Posterior cross-vein present, the discal cell complete. . . 2 



2. No ocellar bristles; occiput excavated. ..... 3 



Ocellar bristles; occiput flattened; pilose species (4, 5) . Verrallia, 



3. Thorax with well developed bristles; third antennal joint reniform 



(12, 13, p. 80) Nephrocerus. 



Thorax not with well-developed bristles; third antennal joint more 

 or less aculeate below; smaller species (1,2). Pipunculus. 



