266 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. XV, 



Tipula fumifascipennis, sp. nov. 



^ 5. Darjiling. Long. ^ 17, $ 25 mm. excl. ovipositor. 



Read. — Frons and occiput mouse grey, latter with numerous short 

 black hairs ; rest of head, proboscis and labella brownish-yellow, latter 

 dark brown above ; palpi dark brown, pale at emarginations, last joint 

 black. Antennae brow^nish-yellow, flagellar joints, except 1st, more or 

 less blackish at base. 



Thorax brownish-yellow, prothorax a little darker, dorsum light 

 brownish-grey ; configuration of the usual three stripes slightly darker. 

 Scutellum darker brown ; metanotum pale yellowish, with grey dorsum. 

 Pleurae paler brownish-yellow. 



Ahdome7i in (^ mainly yellowish, two basal segments j)rincipally 

 brownish-yellow above, hinder part of 1st segment obscured. Who e 

 upper surface of abdomen with very short yellow hairs except at 

 emarginations. In the $ darker grey, actual sides with a distinct 

 black stripe from base and tip. Dorsum of 1st segment mainly yellow- 

 ish. Belly grey in <^ and $. 



Legs. — Coxae brownish -yellow : femora brownish-yellow at base, 

 gradually darkening to dark brown at tips where the colour appears 

 as a broad apical black band, ill defined proximally. Tibiae and 

 tarsi dark brownish-yellow, rather hghter in $. 



Wings distinctly grey, darker brownish-grey from the slightly yellow- 

 ish grey costa to the 4th longitudinal vein, except towards wing tip, 

 but the brownish colour extending over apical tliird of 2nd basal cell 

 except at its tip. There is also a shght brownish suffusion across the 

 anal cell, just before the middle. A nearly clear space from inner side 

 of the inconspicuous, barely darker brown stigma, downwards, embrac- 

 \\\ff tips of both basal cells and proximal half of discal cell, below which 

 it diffuses somewhat along bases of 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th posterior cells. 

 Basal two-thirds of 2nd basal cell and basal half of anal cell (except for 

 the brownish spot) clearer than ground colour of wing. Halteres black. 



Described from a ^ and $ in good condition in the Indian Museum 

 from DarjiUng, 6,000—7,000 ft. ll-vi-14, type .J ; 12-vi-14, type ? (both 

 Gravely) ; a second ^ from Darjiling taken by me, 7,000 ft., 28-v-lO. 



Tipula fumicosta, sp. nov. 



^. Assam. Long. 15 mm. 



}{ead. — Occiput and frons dark grey ; proboscis brownish-yellow, 

 hairy ; labella broadly brown margined ; palpi blackish -brown, pubes- 

 cent base of 2nd and 3rd joints narrowly pale. Antennae brownish- 

 yellow, base of each joint except 1st (and perhaps 2nd) narrowly black. 



Thorax pale brownish-yellow, dorsum shghtly grey, with the con- 

 figuration of the three usual stripes ; prothorax and neck rather darker 

 brown. Scutellum greyish, with some bright yellow hairs on posterior 



margin. 



Abdomen brownish-yellow, becoming brown towards tip of 2nd seg- 

 ment and gradually darkening to black at tip. 2nd segment in type 

 with a narrow, transverse black line (interrupted in centre) across middle 

 of segment, giving the appearance of two segments. Genitalia composed 



