154 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History) ; allotype 

 in the collection of the Paris Museum. 



The specific name, hova, is that of the natives inhabiting the central prov^inces 

 of Madagascar. 



Tipula meliuscula, sp. n. 



Antenal scape yellow, flagellum indistinctly bicolorous; head cinnamon- 

 brown with a conspicuous, dark brown, median stripe; praescutum brown with 

 four obscure yellow stripes; remainder of the mesonotum dark brown and 

 yellowish; pleura obscure yellow, a brown spot between the fore and middle 

 coxae; wings grayish subhyaline, the deflection of Cu] conspicuously seamed 

 with dark brown; male hypopygium with the ninth tergite short, the caudal 

 margin with two widely-separated rounded protuberances. 



Male.- — Length 15 mm.; wing 17 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head dark brown above, more yellowish on 

 the ventral half; palpi dark brown. Antenna? with the scape yellow; flagellum 

 brown, the basal enlargement of each segment dark brown, the remainder 

 slightly paler; the first scapal segment bears numerous rather short bristles on 

 the outer face and a group of three larger bristles on the inner face, arranged in 

 a transverse row before the tip; flagellar verticils elongate. Head rich cinna- 

 mon-brown, the vertex and occiput with a conspicuous, dark brown median 

 stripe. 



Pronotum obscure brownish yellow, darker brown on the sides. Mes'o- 

 notal praescutum brown with four narrow, obscure brownish yellow stripes 

 that are margined with darker brown; lateral margins of the sclerite in front of 

 the pseudosutural foveae narrowly blackened ; scutal lobes brownish black, the 

 centres indistinctly yellowish; scutellum pale testaceous, the posterior margin 

 weakh" infuscated; lateral wings of the scutellum brownish black; postnotum 

 with the median sclerite largely dark brown, the posterior third, a median blotch 

 near the base and the lateral margins pale ; lateral lobes of the postnotum brownish 

 lilack, the ventro-cephalic portion yellowish. Pleura obscure yellow with a 

 brown spot near the dorsal margin of the mesosternum immediately behind the 

 fore coxa; mesepisternum slightly infuscated. Hal teres dark brown, the extreme 

 base conspicuously yellowish orange. Legs with the coxae obscure yellow, the 

 outer faces of the fore and middle coxae slightly infuscated; trochanters yellow; 

 remainder of the legs broken. Wings grayish subhyaline; cell C light yellow, 

 cell Sc pale brown; a brown spot before the arculus; stigma narrow, dark brown; 

 conspicuous brown seams at the deflection of i?4+& and r-m and along the de- 

 flection of Cu]-, obliterative areas before the stigma in cell 1 st R\ and beyond the 

 stigma in the base of cell R2. Venation: Rs short, straight, about equal to 

 -R243; petiole of cell Mi a little shorter than m; fusion of il/3 and Cii] short. 



Abdominal tergites brownish yellow, the basal segments brightest, the 

 lateral margins of the tergites narrowly dark brown; sternites generally similar 

 to the tergites. Male hypopygium with the ninth tergite short, the caudal 

 margin with two rounded protuberances that are widely separated, the space 

 between appearing as a broad, U-shaped notch ; these protuberances are minutely 

 roughened. The outer pleural appendage is small and slender, provided with 

 long hairs; inner pleural appendage with the caudal basal angle produced caudad 



