386 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA, 
Tipulide. 
'TEUCHOLABIS ANNULOABDOMINALIS N. Sp. 
Male, Female—Head: Frons very wide, shining black. 
Cheeks brownish to yellowish. Nasus and palpi dark brown, 
the latter with a few scattered hairs.. Antenne, first scapal 
joint cylindrical, second subglobular, both brownish-yellow, ~ 
darker apically. First flagellar joint more robust than the 
remainder, which are elongate-oval, brownish, paler basally, 
each joint with a whorl of a few hairs about as long as the 
joint itself. Flagellum distinctly fourteen-jointed, apical 
joint very small. 
Thorax.—Neck and anterior portion entirely pale yellowish. 
Mesonotum pale yellowish, a broad presutural black band 
with a median broad extension forward to collare, along each 
side of which is a line of dark hairs, and a pair of black circular 
supra-alar patches. Scutellum pale yellow, metanotum black. 
Anterior pleurz pale yellow, with large black mesopleural spot 
divided from mesonotal black band by a yellow line along 
dorsopleural suture. Metapleura black. Thorax shining, 
naked, except for the above-mentioned median presutural 
rows of hairs and a few scattered hairs postsuturally and on 
scutellar margin. 
Abdomen black, the segments with prominent yellow apical 
dorsal bands, venter yellowish, except sixth segment in male, 
which bears a tuft of black hairs arising from a dark patch. 
Male genitalia dark, female yellowish-brown. 
Legs.—Coxe to tibiz pale yellowish, the tips of femora and 
tibie broadly black, tarsi black, the whole thickly dark 
pubescent. 
Wings.—Membrane slightly smoky, costal cell more 
yellowish. An indefinite dark patch at origin of second vein. 
Stigmt-dark, from which an indefinite brownish suffusion 
extends over the cross veins to fifth vein. Venation as in 
normal 7’. fenestrata. Halteres, scape black, capitellum 
elongate, very pale yellow. 
Long : 5-6 mm. 
Described from five males and one female, all from Sudu- 
ganga, Matale, Ceylon. 
