NOTES ON NEW GENUS FLAVICORNICULUM CHAO ET SHI OF TACHINIDAE FROM CHINA

In this paper one genus and four species are described as new to science. The types of the species are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica. Flavicorniculum gen. nov.Antennae orange, third antennal segment four times as long as second. Head yellow, covered with golden-yellow pollinosity. Interfrontalia twice as broad as parafrontalia; parafacialia 1-1.5 times as broad as third antennal segment. Eyes with dense yellowish hairs. Frons as broad as 3/4 of eye in cf, slightly broader than eye in (?). Thorax black, with grey or yellow polliuosity; a 2(3) + 3, dc 3 + 3, ia 0 + 3, st 2+1, h 4-5; scutellum with four pairs of marginal setae, apical setae as strong as subapical, parallel.Abdomen black, basal excavation of second tergite not reaching hind margin, with two median marginals.Type species: Flavicorniculum hamiforceps, sp. nov.1. Flavicorniculum planiforceps sp. nov. (figs. 5-7)(?). Without a prevertical at each side of vertex; third antennal segment at least four times as long as second. This species very closely resembling Fl. hamiforceps in fourth sternite, which with a dense brush of needle-shaped setae at bind margin, but differing from it by 5th sternite and forceps illustrated in figs. 5 and 6.Length: 13-16mm.Holotype (?). Emei Shan, Sichuan, Ⅵ. 18. 1955. Allotype(?), Li Jiang, Yunnan, Ⅶ. 2. 1962. Paratype (?), Emei Shan, Sichuan, Ⅵ. 11. 1957.2. Flavicorniculum forficalum sp. nov. (figs. 1-4)This species is characterized by having one prevertical at each side of the head and without a dense brush of needle-shaped setae at hind margin of the fourth stemite in male.Length : 14-15 mm.Holotype (?), Longsheng, Guangxi 1150 m, Ⅵ. 8. 1963. Allotype (?), Longsheng, Guangxi 1150 m, Ⅵ. 11. 1963. Paratypes 1(?)1(?), Longsheng, Guangxi, 1150 m, Ⅵ. 20. 1963. 1 (?), Longsheng, Guangxi 1300 m, Ⅵ. 11. 1963.3. Flavicorniculum hamiforceps sp. nov. (figs. 8-11, 14)(?). Very similar to Fl. planiforceps in outward appearance, but easily distinguish by characteristics of forceps illustrated in fig. 8.Length: 15 mm.Holotype (?), Zhejiang, Ⅶ. 28. 1936. Allotype (?), Zhejiang, Ⅶ. 8. 1936. Paratypes 3 (?), Zhejiang, Ⅶ. 20-23. 1936, 1 (?), Zhejiang, Ⅷ. 15. 1935.4. Flavicorniculum multisetosum sp. nov. (figs. 12-13)This species seems to be very closely allied to Fl. hamiforceps, but is distinguished by the forceps as illustrated in fig. 12. Length: 15 mm.Holotype (?), Longsheng, Guangxi 1350 m, Ⅵ. 8. 1963. Paratype 1(?), Longsheng, Guangxi 1350m, 6666666666. 8. 1963.