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BIBIONIDAE. 

 Crapitula mclanaspis, Wied. 

 Three ( cf' $ ) from Singla, iii-13, and Senchal, v-13. 



It is probable that the name Pleciomyia, Brun., must sink 

 HI favour of Crapitula, Gimm., as pointed out b}^ Prof. Bergroth 

 recently.^ In my Fauna volume I overlooked the fact of Crapitula 

 having been set up for melanaspis, and as a reference to the generic 

 description was not possible, I accepted it as synonymous with 

 Plecia in a general sense. In a letter to me some few years ago 

 Mr. Austin told me melanaspis would have to be removed from 

 Plecia, and as the Kertesz catalogue ranked Cra/jiYw/i? as a synonym 

 it was thus the oversight occurred. It certainly was not my desire 

 to deliberately set up a new genus for a species already sufficiently 

 provided for. 



Bibio hortulanoides, Brun. 

 One C3^ , Darjiling District, 1000-3000 ft., vi-i9r2. 



Bibio nigripennis, mihi, sp. nov. 

 $ Darjiling. Long. 7 mm. 



Head dull black, except for a little grey hair on underside; 

 flat, with a small but conspicuous prominence bearing the ocelli. 

 Eyes separated by more than one-third the width of the head. 

 Antennae and palpi black. 



Thorax black (denuded), but apparently in life with some 

 short yellowish or yellowish-grey pubescence, Scutellum and sides 

 of thorax black, bare or nearly so. 



Abdomen black, the surface wrinkled, sides with some 

 yellowish-grey hair, which probably in good specimens covers the 

 dorsum also. 



Legs. — Fore coxae bright brownish-yellow except blackish at 

 base ; remainder of legs bright brownish-yellow except posterior 

 coxae blackish, becoming dirt}^ yellow on apical half. Fore femora 

 greatly incrassated ; fore tibiae more or less dirty yellow ; apical 

 spines strong, long and of equal length. Last two joints of all tarsi 

 and extreme tip of previous joint black. 



Wings blackish, darker on anterior border ; stigma black, 

 obvious but ill defined. Halteres black. 



Described from a single specimen from Senchal, 8000 ft.. 

 May, 1913 in inferior condition. 



TIPULIDAE. 



Pselliophora fuscipennis, Macq. 



One cf , Darjiling, 1000-3000 ft., one 5 , Singla. 

 These do not altogether answer to the description, the thorax 

 is wholly reddish-orange instead of the disc being blackish, and 



I Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) ii, 584. 



