igii.] E. Brunetti : Oriental Tipulidae. 241 



suspiraas, Os, Sac, &. Described from three & cf from the 

 Philippines, one of which has the usually yellow portion of the tho- 

 rax almost whitish. 



idalia, Os. Sac, cf. One & from the Philippines. 



annulosa, V. d. Wulp, $ . T^^pe (a single 9 from Java) in the 

 Leyden Museum. As compared with incunctans this species may 

 be described as with " wings narrower, lighter, all cells with clear 

 centres except costal ones ; thorax all black." 



As Van der Wulp notes that the venation of his species is iden- 

 tical with that of incitnctans and velutina, there is a possibility of 

 this species also being synonymous with incunctans. 



insignis, Meij. (1904): Bijd. tot. de Dierk., xvii, 87, & . 



One cf from Tosari (Java). Apparently distinct by the apical 

 part of the femora being yellow, the extent of the colour differing 

 in each pair of legs. There is some resemblance in the abdominal 

 markings to those of incunctans , and a similarity in the black 

 antennae and brown wings with indistinct clearer spots. Type in 

 Amsterdam Museum. 



xanthomelana, Wlk., 1848. List Dipt, Brit. Mus., i, 77, 2 , 

 Ctenophora. This, as stated in a footnote to the table of species, 

 is only provisional^ placed here, pending the discovery of the cf. 

 Recorded from East India, its size (28 mm.) easily distinguishes it 

 from all other eastern species except my new species terminalis 

 (30 mm.). T3^pe in British Museum, from East India, apparently 

 the only specimen known, in good condition. 



Pselliophora bifascipennis, mihi, sp. nov. 

 5 . Shanghai. Long. 16 mm. 



Head wholly dark mahogany-brown. Proboscis with a little 

 brown hair at tip and at sides ; palpi brownish 3'ellow, last 

 joint elongate, slender, marked with black. Antennae wholly 

 bright chrome-yellow j 2nd joint of scape small and short; ist 

 flagellar joint about as long as ist scapal joint, 2nd only half as 

 long, broader at tip, 3rd sub-globular, the following seven annular, 

 apical joint very small, conical. 



Thorax dark mahogany-brown; prothorax, or collare, and 

 dorsum of thorax, chrome-3^ellow, the latter part with a broad 

 medium dark brown stripe from anterior margin (where it is 

 broader) to the suture, and an outer stripe each side, broadly 

 interrupted at the suture, behind which it is much wider and in 

 the form of a shorter and a longer spot. These lateral stripes fail 

 to reach the anterior margin by a considerable distance. Scutellum 

 dark mahogany-brown, as is also a central spot on the metanotum, 

 the rest of which is bright yellow. A small oval yellow spot on 

 the pleurae between the first and second pairs of coxae. 



Abdomen. — The ist segment black, with a narrow bright yellow 

 hind border carried round the sides, where it widens ; 2nd segment 

 bright yellow, hind margin black, the colour extending over the 

 sides, where it gradually disappears. Following segments black. 



