igii.] E. Brunetti : Oriental Tipulidae. 243 



Thorax brownish yellow, more yellowish anteriorly. Three 

 darker dorsal stripes; the median one rather broad, and bisected 

 by a narrow dark brown line, with which all the stripes are rather 

 sharply delineated. Two spots behind the suture of similar colour 

 and delineation, of normal shape, the anterior one approximately 

 rounded, the hinder one more oblongo-triangular. Pleurae a little 

 greyish. 



Abdomen brownish yellow; the segments blackish marked 

 on the hind margins towards the sides. (The apical half of the 

 abdomen is wanting.) 



Legs. — Coxae and femora brownish yellow ; tibiae and tarsi 

 dark brown or blackish. 



Wings pale grey, base and costal cell yellowish. Stigma 

 dark brown but ill defined, and a brownish suffusion, irregular in 

 extent below the stigma extending around the discal cell ; also in 

 less distinct manner, at the base of both basal cells, at the origin 

 of the 2nd longitudinal vein and over the posterior cross-vein, 

 and here and there over some of the veins. Halteres brownish 

 yellow. 



Described from a single example in excellent condition (ex- 

 cept for the loss of the apical half of the abdomen). Taken by 

 Mr. Felder in 1861 in Ceylon, marked '' Alte Sammlung." 



Type in Vienna Museum. 



N.B. — The end of the abdomen being broken off, the sex of 

 the specimen is indeterminable. The species is a very conspicuous 

 one and quite unlike, in the antennae, any other that I have seen 

 or read of. The abdomen, so far as the middle, shows no trace of 

 any increase in width. It may not be a Pselliophora, but the 

 antennae cannot by any stretch of imagination be associated with 

 Tipula, yet the flagellum is distinctly verticillate, an essentially 

 tipuline character. 



Pselliophora immaculipennis, mihi, sp. nov. 

 $ . iVssam. Long, 12 mm. 



Head bright shining orange- 3'ellow, with scattered hairs ; 

 a frontal spot, almost bisected in the middle (just above the 

 antennpe), shining light yellow-brown, extendmg from eye to eye. 

 Eyes small, black and placed well forward so that the back of the 

 head is very wide, and joins the equaLy broad vertex which 

 is orange-yellow. Face rather considerably covered with long 

 yellow hair, antennae concolorous, covered with microscopically 

 silver-grey dust : the ist joint long, c^dindrical, 2nd short, bead- 

 like, 3rd and rest cylindrical, 3rd as long as ist, remainder gra- 

 dually shortening ; the last three very short and close together, the 

 13th style-like. Palpi orange-yellow, tip black. 



Thorax concolorous, with irregularly scattered hairs, shin- 

 ing, bare. The pro thorax is reduced to a small circular thick disc, 

 bright yellow ; humeri brown. Mesothorax with three wide, 



