26o Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. YI, 



coiicolorous, metanotum pale semi-livid brownish yellow, moder- 

 ately shining. Sides of thorax very pale pinkish or whitish gre^', 

 the colour extending across the neck ; it is sharply separated from 

 the dark dorsum, the line of demarcation running from just above 

 the shoulders to below the root of the wing, thence posteriorly to 

 the metanotum. 



Abdomen. — Ground colour brownish yellow, but the greater 

 part of each segment blackish, including the sides, except on the 

 sides of the basal segments. In one specimen an indistinct pale 

 yellowish narrow ring towards the base of many of the segments. 

 A very narrow, more or less indistinct pale brownish yellow trans- 

 verse line in front of the middle of each segment. Belly 3'ellowish. 

 Ovipositor brownish yellow, sometimes marked with black, normal, 

 lower valves shorter than upper one. 



Legs. — Coxae pale 3-ellowish gre}" or pinkish grey, fore pair 

 more yellowish, trochanters very pale yellow ; remainder of legs 

 dark brownish yellow, femora may be darker or rather lighter, 

 broadly blackish at tips : tibiae and tarsi black. 



Wings very pale ^^ellowish grey, costal cell yellowish. 

 Stigma brown, or the stigmatic region brown, merged proximally 

 in the yellowish costal cell, the basal half of the marginal cell of 

 the same colour as the rest of the wing. Discal cell pentagonal, 

 rather small, the three upper sides forming a rectangle, the lower 

 two sides forming a wide open '' V " : pedicle of upper branch of 

 4th longitudinal vein one-fourth as long as the veinlets. Halteres 

 blackish. 



Described from one 9 from Kand}', Ma5' 1910, taken by 

 Mr. Green, and another ? from Peradeniya, also from a cot3^pe in 

 the Vienna Museum from Peradeniya, taken 25-xii-oi by Dr. Uzel. 



Gbographic Ai. Distribution. ~ Ceylon. 



Type in Indian Museum ; cotype in Vienna Museum. 



Tipula ochripes, mihi, sp. nov. 



cf 5 . Ceylon. Long. & 18, 2 20 — 22 mm. + 2 mm. 

 ovipositor. 



Head yellowish, vertex a little brownish grej^ in the middle. 

 Back of head similar. Proboscis blackish, robust and rather 

 long ; palpi blackish, with base and tips of first three joints more 

 or less pale yellow. Antennae rather short, blackish or very dark 

 brown : tip of the long scapal ist joint and the whole of the very 

 short 2nd joint, pale yellow; base of i^^t flagellar joint, which is 

 long and c^dindrical, sometimes yellow also. The remaining joints 

 setaceous, much narrower at the base and tip on the under side 

 of each joint : very minutely pubescent and with a verticil of very 

 short hairs in the middle of each joint. 



Thorax. — Dorsum vandyke-brown, tinged with ochraceous 

 here and there around the edges ; with three narrow stripes (which 

 sometimes appear as a pair of closely parallel lines, the stripe 

 itself contained by them being practically concolorous with the 



