122 DIPTERA OF AUSTRALIA, 



with pale brown tips. Length of the body 10 lines; of the wings 

 20 lines." 



^a6.— N.W. coast of Australia. Specimen in Coll. British 

 Museum. 



Obs. — Evidently belonging to Holorusia, and perhaps closely 

 allied to the last. The species is totally unknown to me. I have 

 not seen any Tipulidse from N. W. Australia. 



Genus 15. Tipula, Linnseus. 



Tipula, Linn., Fauna Suec. 1740 ; Fal)ricius, Ent. Syst. IV., 

 1794; Latreille, Crus. et Ins. IV., p. 255, 1809; Meigen, Syst. 

 Beschr. I., p. 168, 1818 ; Macquart, S. a B. Dipt. I., p. 80, 1834; 

 Curtis, Brit. Entom. XL, p. 493 ; Macquart, Dipt. Exot. I., 

 p. 52, 1838; Zetterstedt, F. Lapp. 1840 ; Dipt. Scand. X., 1851 ; 

 Walker, Ins. Brit. Dipt. III., p. 318, 1856 ; Schiner, F.A., 1864 ; 

 Loew, Beschr. Europ. Dipt. III., 1873 ; V. d. Wulp. Dipt. Neerl. 

 1877 ; Westhoff, Ueber den Bau des Hypopygiums der Gatt. 

 Tipula, 1882. 



Probably none of the following species, described under the 

 generic name Tipula, will eventually be found to belong to this 

 genus sensu, stricto. 



422. Tipula senex. White. 



T. senex, White, Voy. Erebus and Terror, Insects, p. 27, pi. 

 VII. fig. 15; Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mus. I. p. 71, 1848. 



" Head pale cinereous, with basal fourth and a central oval 

 depression testaceous ; prothorax testaceous, with central longi- 

 tudinal ridge, two lateral cinereous bands ; mesothorax and meta- 

 thorax cinereous, with central and lateral longitudinal dusky 

 bands. Abdomen fulvous ; indications of dusky bands of meta- 

 thorax continued into basal segments. Wings hyaline white ; 

 co.sta to mediastinal vein stramineous ; veins testaceous ; costa, a 

 spot at first third of discoidal cell, two obliquely just beyond second, 



