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Type in British Museum, paratype in Kuala Lumpur Museum. 

 shirakii, Edw., he. c.it., XVIII, p. 258, $ (1916). Arisan, 

 Formosa, 8,000 ft., lO-x-12 (Nitohe). Kliasi Hills. Assam. 

 The latter specimen in the British Museum, the type is not. 

 ruiomedia, id., loc. cit., p. 259, (^ $, pi. xii, 5-7, genitalia (1916). 

 Horisha, Formosa {Mahi) ; Formosa (a second specimen). 

 Types in British Museum. 



Tipula gravelyi, sp. nov. 



^. Darjiling. Long, about 32 mm. from tip of nasus to tip of 



genitaha. 



Head very dark velvet brown, nearly black ; nasus dark brown ; 

 antennae black, seen to be grey dusted in certain lights ; verticillate 

 hairs pale yellowish ; 2nd basal joint reddish-brown : palpi brown, 

 tips black, a httle pale at base of each joint. 



Thorax dark velvet brown, a little darker towards sides of dorsum. 

 Pleurae less dark than dorsum, whitish dusted on sternopleura, ptero- 

 pleura and hypopleura. Scutellum dark brown ; with a little silvery 

 shimmer, which extends forwards between the post sutural callosities 

 and along the suture itself each side for a short distance ; also along the 

 frenulum and over part of the posterior calli. Metapleura well defined, 

 brownish yellow. Some soft, moderately short dark pubescence along 

 sides of dorsum and a few fine pale hairs on hind margin of scutellum. 



Abdomen moderately pale brown, last segment darker ; 1st segment 

 at base with a little whitish shimmer, remaining segments with a pale 

 brownish yellow transverse streak, — interrupted in the middle, — to- 

 wards base, except on 2nd segment, in which it hes approximately across 

 the middle. Extreme sides of dorsal plates narrowly black, the hind 

 angles pale, as are also the extreme margins of 5th and 6th segments. 

 (Possibly in individuals margins of other segments also pale.) A few 

 very short pale yellowish hairs at sides of segments and along hind 

 margins. Genitalia very large and conspicuous, shining dark brown. 

 A very large curved dorsal plate, with a little golden yellow pubescence 

 towards sides and tip ; a pair of claspers with the usual large basal joint, 

 the 2nd joint being long, irregularly conical, slightly curved, horny, 

 shininty bright brown, with long bright yellow hairs on outer side. A 

 large lower piece is present, and apparently some inner organs ; the 

 ventral plate is very small, subquadrate. 



Legs brownish -yellow, coxae and tarsi tips darker ; a practically 

 apical yellow ring on femora with a narrow black ring immediately 

 preceding it. Extreme base of tibiae just perceptibly paler yellowish. 



Wings dark grey ; costal, stigmatic and discal cell regions distinctly 

 yellow. Costa slightly bulging out in front of the stigma, which, with a 

 short distance around it, is very dark brown, as is also a spot over base 

 of 2nd longitudinal vein. A small pale yellow spot occurs towards tip of 

 2nd submarginal cell, and in the centre of the margin of all five posterior 

 cells. A similar spot on wing margin immediately behind 6th vein, a 

 small one in front of 7th vein. In the 1st basal cell a pale yellowish 

 space just before origin of 2nd vein ; in 2nd basal cell a similar spot 

 like a " 7 " backwards, continuing into anal cell A very small pale 



