14 DIPTERA 



Genus-TIPULA. 

 Linnceus. 

 Muzzle long and narrow. Front plane. The three first joints of 

 the palpi partially fused, the fourth long and flexible. Antennae 

 filiform, almost setaceous, thirteen- jointed, the first elongate cylin- 

 drical ; the second small, cyathiform ; tlte ten following cylindrical, with 

 bristles at their bases ; the thirteenth slender, oblong. Wings ex- 

 panded ; five posterior marginal cells, the second of which is petioled. 



T. SENEX. White, Voij. Ereb. and Terror, Insects, p. 27, pi. 7, f. 15 

 (1848) . 



Head pale cinereous, with basal fourth and a central oval depres- 

 sion testaceous ; prothorax testaceous, with central longitudinal ridge, 

 two lateral cinereous bands ; mesothorax and metathorax cinereous, 

 with central and lateral longitudinal dusky bands. Abdomen fulvous ; 

 indications of dusky bands of metathorax continued into basal seg- 

 ments. Wings hyaline white; costa to mediastinal vein stramineous ; 

 veins testaceous ; costa, a spot at first third of discoidal cell, two 

 obliquely just beyond second third, a fourth near apex, and a 

 nebulous striole at apex of cell brown. Poisers pale testaceous ; legs 

 testaceous ; pectus pinkish-cinereous, with several dusky spots. 



Expanse, 2 inches. 



New Zealand (Dr. Sinclair). 



T. NovARiE. Schiner, I.e., p. 37 (1868). 



Brownish-yellow ; thorax with four white longitudinal streaks, two 

 of which approximate in front with dark-brown borders ; those on the 

 outside lie close to the borders, the inside ones' stand at a distance 

 and expose the ground colour in the middle of the thorax as a brown 

 streak, which is divided throughout by a brown double line, and 

 extend over the scutellum and lower part of the back. Behind the 

 transverse suture the white shining longitudinal streaks get nearer, 

 and are also continued over the scutellum and the lower part of the 

 back. In front the markings of the thorax are very sharp ; in two 

 male specimens, now before me, the dark-brown lines are less 

 striking than in the female. Sides of the chest vdth white 

 shining spots. Hind part of the abdomen brownish yellow, the first 

 segment strongly darkened on the sides, and whitish on the upper and 

 hinder margin ; the other segments with delicate whitish striae, and a 

 triangular side spot of the same colour, all of which are conjoined 

 in a broadish side streak ; near the hinder end of the abdomen the 

 ground colour is again deepened ; the whitish side-streaks appear very 



