XVIII. REVISION OF THE O R I E N T A Iv 

 TiPUIvIDAE WITH DESCRIPTIONS 

 OF NEW SPECIES. 



By E. Brunetti. 



The present paper may be regarded as an annotated catalogue 

 of Oriental Tipulidae; composed of (r) the species given in Van 

 der Wulp's catalogue with such notes as appear to be of interest.^ 

 It is significant that no corrections are necessary as to their generic 

 location. This is directly due to the fact that Osten Sacken, 

 who must be regarded as, par excellence, the principal authority 

 on this family, had already worked through them and placed 

 practically all of them in their proper genera:. (2) such species as 

 have been described since Van der Wulp's catalogue: (3) the 

 disposition of the types of as many species as possible with notes 

 on their present condition : (4) over fifty new species herein 

 described, preserved in the Vienna Museum, Indian Museum, Pusa 

 collection or my own; and (5) the erection of eight new genera, 

 formed, in two cases by the splitting of Moni^oma and Cladura 

 into three genera each, and in other cases through t:.e discovery 

 of several new forms that cannot be satisfactorily placed in any 

 of the existing genera. 



It is not without considerable hesitation that these new 

 genera are proposed, since Osten Sacken repeatedly warned 

 students in this famih^ of the necessity of great circumspection 

 in this matter, owing to a general tendency in the Tipulidae 

 to adventitious variation, more especially in the venation. I 

 have little doubt, however, of the generic stability of all those 

 now suggested. Moreover there are sev^eral undescribed species 

 in the Indian Museum the generic position of which is still most 

 uncertain. One genus, Tyichocera, I venture to remove from the 

 Limnophilini to the Amalopini, regarding it, after mature delibera- 

 tion, more akin to the genera of the latter section. 



It may be noted that in addition to the new species herein 

 described I have descriptions completed in MS. of nearly 140 

 others from different parts of the East, and these will be published 

 in my forthcoming work on certain families of Nemocera in a 

 volume for the ''Fauna of British India" series. 



This will make the total number of species of Tipulidae known 

 to exist in the Oriental region, over 370. an increase of over 150 

 per cent, on the number known only fifteen years ago ! 



' Of th^se (about 140 in number), since Van der Wulp's catalogue is easily 

 accessibl', it seems unnecessary to aid references, but references arc given to all 

 species described since the publicaiion of that catalogue. These latter are forty- 

 five in number. 



