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that part with bright golden yellow hair. Intermediate organs 

 invisible. O^/'ipositor in $ shining brown, with reddish tips. 



Legs, — Coxae gold-yellow, rather shining, with a little hair ; 

 femora and tibiae brownish yellow, tarsi rather darker; tips of 

 femora with a rather narrow black ring. 



Wings brownish yellow, veins a little deeper coloured. The 

 centres of most of the cells on the posterior half of the wing 

 rather clearer and there is an indistinct transverse clear streak 

 just before the hardly visible stigma. Halteres blackish. 



Described from a & (type) and two 9 9 all from DarjiHng, 

 taken by Mr. F. M. Howlett, 3 — g-vi-og, and a 9 (type) from 

 Kurseong, 24-vi-io [Annandale]. 



Type cf in the Pusa collection, type 9 in the Indian 

 Museum. 



Tipula fulvolatcralis, mihi, sp. nov. 



cf . Himalayas. Ivong. 31 mm. from tip of nose to tip of geni- 

 tal organs. 



Head. — Vertex grey ; frons one-fourth the width of the head, 

 yellow, with a little gre3^ Proboscis yellowish, dark brown at tip 

 and on under side, also the labella and the palpi. Antennae yellow, 

 brown towards the tips. 



Thorax. — Dorsum brownish grey, forming the usual three 

 dorsal stripes which are nearly contiguous, the middle one reach- 

 ing the anterior margin and being just perceptibl}^ divided in 

 front, the outer ones short, not reaching the shoulders. Dorsum 

 behind suture, scutellum and metanotum brownish grey. 



Sides of thorax rather bright yellowish, the colour extending 

 round the front below the shoulders ; a dark brown thin line on 

 each side, below the yellow portion, separating it from the lower 

 part which is almost livid in the type but unicolorous yellow in the 

 second specimen. 



Abdomen chestnut-brown. Under side light yellowish grey 

 on basal half, genitalia brownish yellow, pubescent, complex. 

 A dorsal small elongate curved plate, bilobed on posterior half. 

 A pair of large claspers, two-jointed, the 2nd joint rather shorter, 

 scoop-shaped. An internal pair of organs, sub-globular, with 

 narrow stems ; a ventral curved plate with a small semicircular 

 piece cut away in the centre, closely pubescent around the emargi- 

 nation with golden yellow hairs. 



Legs brownish yellow, coxae livid, with a tew whitish hairs, 

 tips of femora with a rather narrow black ring. 



Wings moderately dark grey, costal cell brownish yellow 

 (in one specimen with a number of fine but distinct upright lines) ; 

 stigma hardly distinct from the colour of the costal cell. A small, 

 nearly hyaline spot just above the discal cell, of which the distal 

 side is nearly double the length of the proximal. Posterior cross- 

 vein narrowly but distinctly suffused near its junction with the 5th 

 vein Petiole of 2nd posterior cell very short. Halteres blackish. 



