246 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. VI, 



Section IL TIPULINL 

 TIPULA, L. 



List op, and notes on, described species. 



pedata, W., S . Widely distributed throughout the East; 

 Van der Wulp records it from Java, Sumatra, Borneo and the 

 PhiHppines ; the Vienna and Indian Museums have it from Assam 

 and Ceylon, from which latter locality I have seen several speci- 

 mens if I have correctly identified the species. It appears to 

 be variable unless several closely allied species exist. 



Type in Westerm ami's collection, in the Vienna Museum. 

 Meijere records the species being bred from a pupa by Dr. Van 

 Leeuwen in Java. 



praepotens, W., & $ . East Indies, Recorded also from 

 Japan, but I do not know if the identity is estabUshed. Type 

 in the Leyden Museum, where in the old collection are three 

 specimens, of which one is a cf , one a 5 , the third being damaged. 

 Wiedemann quotes no sex. 



monochroa, W., & 5 . Java. Type in Leyden Museum. 

 Wiedemann only mentions the 9 but Dr. Jentinck informs me 

 there are two & & and two 2 ? in the old collection; an ad- 

 ditional specimen in bad condition from Sumatra, identified by 

 Van der Wulp, and another specimen from Celebes. Meijere 

 records a 9 from Java and notes the affinity of the species with 

 T. pilosula, Wulp. 



umbrina^ W., cf $ . East Indies. Type and three other 

 examples in the "old collection" of the Leyden Museum, 

 with a cf and 5 from Gorontalo (Celebes), two d» cf from Obi 

 Island, all identified by Van der Wulp. I accept this latter 

 dipterologist's synonymy of castanea, Mcq., and incongruens , Wlk. 

 It is not rare in Java. 



venusta, Wlk. Described from Sylhet, the t3^pe, of which 

 no sex was announced, being then in the British Museum, but it is 

 now no longer to be found there. There is a closely allied species 

 found in India, which at first I mistook for Walker's venusta. 

 This will be described later on in my volume for the " Fauna" 

 series. 



walkeri, mihi, nom. nov. 

 {julvipennis , Wlk.) 



This species of Walker's has to be renamed, fulvipennis being 

 preoccupied by Degeer in 1776 for a European species. Walker's 

 type is in the British Museum, valueless for comparison; its sex 

 is not recognisable, and no other specimen appears to be known. 

 Its sex was not stated. 



reposita, Wlk., cf 9 . Both sexes were described by Walker 

 from Nepal ; of the types, in the British Museum, the cf is in 

 sufficiently good condition to be useful but the 9 is reduced 

 almost to a fragment. 



