50. 

 LIMNOBIA OCELLARIS. 



Order Diptera. Fam. Tipulidse LaL, Leach. 



Type of the Genus L. dispar Megerle. 

 LiMNOBiA Meig. Limonia Meig., Lat. Tipula Litm., Fab. 



AnteiincB porrected, longer than the head, abruptly setaceous, 

 1 5-1 7-jointed, each joint having a few hairs arising round the 

 middle, first joint long, robust, cylindric, second globose, four or 

 Kve following subturbinated, the remainder more or less clavate. 

 (f. 3.) 



Labrum and "I , , , . /o*i v 



Tongne f "°^""^' ^^^^^' ^^^^^- ^^^'^ 



Lip very large, dilated, bilobed, membranaceous, hairy. (2*9.) 

 Palpi 2, exserted, incurved, cylindric, composed of five joints of 

 nearly equal length. (2. f. and 2*f.) 

 Head small, long, oval, sUglitly inclining doionward, narrowed behind, 

 and like a cylindric, compressed, attenuated rostrum before. (2.) 

 Clypeus ? broad quadrate. (2*.) Ocelli none. Eyes oval, entire. 

 Thorax gibbous with a distinct transverse segment before. Body vei'y 

 long, cylindric, apex somewhat incrassated in the males, acuminate 

 in the females. Oviduct spiniform, corneous, bivalved, valves very 

 acute. Wings incumbent, parallel, ciliated, Mving about 17 cells, 

 3 of which are discoidal, nerves naked. (9.) Halteres naked, club 

 trigonate. Feet very long, vibratory. Tarsi 5-Jointed, first joint 

 very long. 



OcELLARis Linn. Syst. Nat. 2. 973. 17. Fab. Ent. Syst. v. i. p. 240. 

 n. 30. Meig. Syst. Bes. v. I. p. 152. n. 65. 



Dull ochraceous, hairy. Eyes, first and second joints of antenna9, 

 sides of the abdomen, a line down the back of the four last joints, 

 and a ring round the middle of each thigh, black ; four lines on 

 the thorax, 2 spots near the base of the wings, and scutellum 

 fuscous. Wing stained pale yellow, deepest towards the costa, 

 with many fuscous ocelli towards the middle, and spots of the 

 same colour along the margins, nerves fuscous. Halteres very 

 pale. 



In the Cabinets of Mr. Stephens and Mr. Haworth. 



Meigen enumerates 65 species of Limnohia, including Tipula 

 ricusa and one or two others, which ought probably to be 

 icuioved from the Genus ; and so various are the nervures of 

 their wings, that he has divided them into 21 sections. In 



