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border which bears pale yellow hairs ; the rest of the dorsal 

 surface bears rather thick short dark brown hairs. Anal segments 

 dark brown. 



Genitalia dark brown, consisting of a strong upper piece, with 

 two small pubescent appendages. Two side plates, meeting on 

 under side enclose a complex pair of large claspers, which bear 

 terminal pale yellow pubescent finger-like processes, and a strong 

 pair each of bifid black claws pointing upwards. A pair of yellow- 

 haired, comb-like processes are just below the large claspers. 



Legs (hind pair missing). — Femora brown, paler at base and 

 l)lackish towards tips. Knees a little pale. Tibiae and tarsi black. 



Wings nearly clear ; costal cell and stigma brownish. 5th 

 longitudinal vein slightly darkened ; an indistinct hyaline streak 

 from just in front of the stigma to the discal cell. 



Described from a single cf in the Pusa collection taken by 

 Mr. Howlett at Darjiling, 3 — g-vi-og. 



Tipula gracilis, mihi, sp. nov. 



9 . Darjiling. Long, 12 mm. -f- ovipositor. 



Head. — Antennal scape yellow, with a few hairs on upper side, 

 flagellum black, with microscopic grey pubescence and a verticil 

 of hairs at base of each joint. Proboscis, palpi, frons and back 

 of head, brownish yellow, with a few pale hairs on each side of the 

 centre . 



Thorax fierruginous brown; the three dorsal stripes and a 

 large one on each post-sutural callosity, all united; the suture very 

 narrowly pale. Scutellum, basal half yellowish, posterior half light 

 ferruginous brown. Metanotum and sides of thorax yellowish brown 

 with a little shining yellowish grey colour about the pleurae. 



Abdomen dull black, with very short sparse grey hairs; 

 yellowish at base, posterior border of segments whitish. Ovipositor 

 shining black, terminal sheaths brownish yellow. 



Legs brownish yellow, microscopically pubescent; coxae with 

 a few short hairs; femora yellowish with black tips; tibiae and 

 tarsi dark brown. 



Wings yellowish; costal cell and stigma deep yellow, the 

 latter distinct. An indistinct subhyaline streak from the inner 

 side of the stigma to the basal half of the discal cell. Fifth 

 longitudinal vein on distal part apparently double, forming a 

 flattened triangle at its junction with the cross-vein connecting it 

 with the fourth vein. Seventh vein very close to hind border of 

 wing, and parallel to it. Halteres blackish. 



Described from one specimen in my collection taken by me at 

 Darjiling, 7-X-05. 



PACHYRHINA, Macq. 



IvIST OF, AND NOTES ON, DESCRIBED SPECIES. 



javana, W., cf. Type in Westermann's collection in the 

 Vienna Museum. 



