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Described from four cf cf . T^-pe from Bhim Tal (4,500 ft.), 

 Kumaon District, 19 — 22-ix-o6 [Aiinafidale], one from Dhikala, 

 Garhwal District, base of Himalayas, ii-iii-io, and two from 

 Sikhim, the latter in the Vienna Museum, 



Geographical Distribution. — Western Himalayas. 



Type in Indian Museum (also the Dhikala specimen). 



Tipula fumifasciata, mihi, sp. nov. 

 cf S . Assam, China. Long. 15 mm. 



Head almost wholly yellowish grey. Antennae : scape, ist 

 joint slightly contracted in middle, with a few hairs, 2nd very 

 short ; flagellum yellow, with microscopic whitish pubescence, and 

 a verticil of 4 or 5 black bristly hairs at base of each joint. 



Proboscis and palpi yellow, both with short stiff black hairs. 



Thorax pale yellowish grey. The three normal dorsal stripes 

 pale brownish grey, the median one abbreviated in front, and 

 continued to the anterior margin only in the form of three very 

 narrow lines. Sides of thorax pale yellowish grey, rather darker 

 behind, with a sHght brownish tinge behind the wings. Scutellum 

 and metanotum very pale yellowish grey, almost with a greenish 

 tinge. 



Abdomen light brown, with microscopic golden yellow hairs, 

 extreme bases of segments very narrowly black, posterior margins 

 of segments narrowly pale yellowish. 



Genital organs concolorous, concealed, but large and appar- 

 ently complex. 



Legs yellowish, tips of femora and tibiae a little brownish ; 

 tarsi dark brown or blackish. 



Wings pale brown, a little darker on anterior half. Distal 

 third of both basal cells nearly clear, the hyaline part continued 

 through the discal and ist posterior cells to the wing margin. A 

 narrow, irregular clear streak transversely across the marginal cell, 

 just beyond the barely obvious, small blackish stigma, which clear 

 streak joins the clear part of the ist basal cell. Veins brown, 

 3rd and 5th longitudinal veins, and the cross-vein connecting the 

 5th with the discal cell, deeply but narrowly dark brown suffused. 

 Pedicle of fork of upper branch of 4th vein nearly as long as 

 discal cell. Halteres brown. 



Described from two cf cf and one ? (types) in the Indian 

 Museum collection from Ukhral, Manipur State (6,400 ft.), taken 

 by the Rev. W. Pettigrew in August 1908 : also from a cotype 9 

 from Central China in the Vienna Museum. 



Tipula fumipennis, mihi, sp. nov. 



9 , Darjiling. Long. 20 mm. -|- proboscis 2 mm. and ovi- 

 positor 2 mm. 



Head mainly dark brown, a little yellow around the base of 

 the proboscis; dark grey on back of head, except a broad median 



