1918.] E. Brunetti : Oriental Tipulidae. .277 



Tanypremna omissinervis, Meij. 



Br. de Meij ere now refers this to Tipula. 



Alexander [Proc. U. S. N. M. XLIV, p. 487) sinks Stegasmonotus, 

 Ender. {Zool. Jahr. XXXII, p. 1, fig. i ; 1912) as an absolute Synonym 

 of Tanypremna. 



DOLICHOPEZA, Curt. 



orientalis, Brun., Fauna Brit. Ind. Dipt., p. 351 ^ ^ (1 912)i 

 Kurseong. 

 I found this species not uncommon at Darjiling during the .^econd 

 week of July 1916, flying low and slowly over wet grass and plants on 

 the hillside in the town. 



obscura, Brun., loc. cit., p. 355 (^ $ (1912). Kurseong. 

 postica, id., loc. cit., App. p. 561 <^ $ (1912). Darjihng District. 

 inJuscata, id., loc. cit., App. p. 565 ^ (1912). Nilgiri Hills. 

 Types of above four species in Indian Museum. 



pallidithorax, Meij., Tijd. v. Ent. LVI, Supp. p. 1 ^, pi i, 3, 1913 

 (Mar. 1914). Java. 



Dolichopeza costalis, sp. nov. 

 (Plate viii, fig. 6.) 



^. Cochin, S. India. Long, just over 5 mm. 



Head yellowish ; frontal bump well developed. Proboscis dirty 

 brownish-yellow, with a few bristly black hairs ; palpi brownish-yellow, 

 paler at emarginations. Antennae pale yellowish with soft white pubes- 

 cence, a httle blackish at emarginations ; 1st joint pale brownish, with 

 bristly hairs. 



Thorax and scutellum wholly pale brownish-yellow 



Abdomen yellowish at base, remainder of segment smoke-brown, 

 paler on basal part of each segment. Genitalia distinct, smoke-brown. 



Legs (one only remaining). Femora yellowish, tip distinctly brown, 

 tibiae and carsi whitish, tip of former narrowly black ; tarsi \^ times 

 as long as tibiae. 



Wings pale grey ; costa smoke -brown, the colour broadening towards 

 and broadly enclosing wing tip, filling apical half of 1st and apical 

 third of 2nd posterior cell. Wing brown at base ; a blob attached to 

 the costal darkening placed a little beyond the basal dark part ; a 2nd 

 blob over origin of 2nd longitudinal vein, a 3rd over anterior cross vein 

 and bas3 of 1st posterior cell. The posterior cross vein is narrowly 

 brown suffused, and there is a minute concolorous spot placed at each 

 of the three hiudermost veinlets of the 4th vein, also at tips of 5th and 

 6th longitudinal veins. 



A slightly paler spot than the ground colour on costa just beyond tip 

 of 1st vein and one each at tips of submarginal and 1st posterior cells. 



Described from a unique ^ in the Indian Museum from Kavalai, 

 1,300^-3,000 ft., Cochin State, S. India, 24— 27-ix-14 [Gravely). 



Apart from only one leg remaining the specimen is in good condition 

 but I should have refrained from setting uj- a legless type if the species 



