igii.] E. Brunktti : Oriental Tipulidae. 235 



hindwards and upwards, joining the scutellum, enclosing the base 

 of the hal teres in its path. A narrow black line runs interruptedly- 

 round the posterior border of the thoracic dorsum, replaced 

 immediately in front of the scutellum by two small black spots, 

 Metanotum oblong, large, traces of a black central streak. Scu- 

 tellum oblong, elevated but moderately small, supported at each 

 corner by a pronounced scutellar ridge. 



Abdomen orange yellow, with a few irregular hairs; ist seg- 

 ment with a yellowish white shimmer at the extreme base in 

 front ; a narrow black cross-band on the dorsum near the base of 

 the segment, which line is continued forwards along the sides of 

 the abdomen as far as the base. Posterior borders of all the 

 segments, including the ist, on which it is widest, but excluding 

 the last, with a blackish irregular band. Ovipositor in the shape 

 of two blades close together, orange-yellow. Belly uniformly 

 orange-yellow. 



Legs. — Coxae lemon-yellow, the hind pair having two small 

 black spots on the hinder side at the base. Femora and tibiae 

 uniformly bright orange-^^ellow with minute closely-set concolorous 

 pubescence. Tarsi wholly coal-black. 



Wings yellowish grey, costal cell yellow, veins black, halteres 

 yellow. 



Described from two 9 ? nearly perfect and in first class con- 

 dition in the Indian Museum collection from Siliguri, at the foot 

 of the Darjiling hills, taken 18 — 2o-vii-07. 



TANYDERUS, Phil. 



ornatissimus, Dol., cf^ 2 {Cylindrotoma). Amboina. 



Of this species Osten Sacken (Berl. Ent. Zeits., xxxi, 228) gives 

 a fuller description, based on an original coloured drawing of a a' 

 by Doleschall but never published, and also on a 2 in the Vienna 

 Museum. He notes an error in Doleschall's description, in which 

 the antennae are said to be i6-jointed whereas he distinctly ob- 

 served 22 joints, both in the author's coloured drawing and in the 

 type 2 at Vienna, which latter is now somewhat damaged. 



Subfamily TIPULINAE. 



Section L CTENOPHORINL 



CTENOPHORA, Mg. 



Two species have been introduced as Oriental members of 

 this genus. The first, xanthomelaena, Wlk. (I,ist Dipt. Brit. 

 Mus., i, 77, from East India), exists apparently in the type speci- 

 men only, which is in the British Museum, in good condition still; 

 but as it is a 2 it is impossible to be sure that the species does 

 not belong to Pselliophora , Os. Sac. 



