1918.] E. Brunetti: Oriental Tipulidae. ,259 



Pselliophora approximata, sp. no v. 



$. S. W. India. Long. 12i mm. 



Head and thorax wholly and uniformly bright orange ; dorsum of 

 antennae just perceptibly darker ; palpi slightly duller. 



Abdomen brownish-orange, last segment and genitaha shining black. 



Legs. — Coxae and femora orange, latter with moderately broad apical 

 ring ; rest of legs black ; hind tibiae with yellowish ring at base, a bare 

 trace of similar rings on anterior tibiae. 



Wings blackish : both basal cells, basal half of costal cell, marginal 

 cell (the colour extending to the costa), basal parts of discal, 4th and 5th 

 posterior cells, and basal half of anal and of both axillary cells brif^ht 

 orange yellow. Halteres orange. 



Described from a single 9 in the Indian Museum. Talewadi, near 

 Castle Rock, N. Kanara District, 3 — lO-x-16 {Kemj)). 



This must be very hke gaudens, Walk, described from Celebes, but 

 that species presumably has a white basal ring on all the tibiae and the 

 blackish wings have a " whitish " exterior band which is attenuated 

 hiudward. It is also distinctly larger, 7 to 10, lines. The black and 

 yellow colours in the wing are so evenly divided that it is impossible 

 to correctly assign it to either my group B or BB in the table of species 

 given in my previous paper on this family. Assuming the wing to be 

 " principally black " it will separate from gaudens, Walk, on the cha- 

 rasters given above. 



Pselliophora flavofasciata, sp. nov. 

 (Plate viii, figs. 2, 3.) 



(^ $. Assam. Long. (^ 10 mm. ; § 12 mm. to tip of 



ovipositor. 



Head. — Occiput much flattened, upper half shining dark brown ; 

 antennae placed practically on vertex, black, except 1st scapal joint 

 pale yellow ; rest of head mainly moderately dark brown ; yellowish 

 below antennae and rather bright pale yellow on lower half of back of 

 head ; nasus and palpi with black hairs. 



Thorax. — ^Dorsum very shining dark brown, just perceptibly lighter 

 at ends of suture : collare conspicuously bright orange ; pleurae pale 

 yellowish, nearly white ; sternopleura and ptero pleura dull black ; 

 scutellum dull yellow ; metanotum dark shining brown. 



Abdomen. — 1st and 2nd segments bright chrome yellow ; apical 

 half of 1st and nearly apical half of 2nd black ; 3rd, 4th and 5th bright 

 chrome yellow with a black stripe at middle of both sides, extending 

 upwards from the all black belly (these stripes much shorter in (^) ; 

 rest of abdomen black, hind margin of 6th segment yellowish. Genitalia 

 in ,^ black, the large basal joint of claspers shining yellowish-brown , 

 in 9 ovipositor shining mahogany brown. Belly of 1st and 2nd seg- 

 ments as upper side, rest black, hind margins narrowly yellow. 



Legs very dark brown ; a broad white ring at base of all tibiae. 



Wings dark blackish-brown, shining ; a pale yellow stiipe including 

 basal half of marginal cell, nearly apical half of 2nd basal cell and all 



