iQii.] E. Brunetti : Oriental Tipulidae. 265 



not been noted before. In one specimen the pleurae are a little 

 black marked, in another they are entirely lemon-yellow except for 

 a rather large pale orange spot below the wing root. 



Macquart notes the second posterior cell is nearly petiolate. 

 In two of the three examples before me it is quite distinctly so, 

 as much as in many species of Tipiila ; in the third it is very 

 shortly, but still practically so, and slightly more in one wing than 

 the other. x\ll these points prove the variability of the species in 

 man}'' particulars, and the comparatively small size of the discal 

 cell, which is emphasized in the present specimens, is also a strong 

 specific character. 



Described from three 2 9 in the Indian Museum collection, 

 two from Bindukhera (Naini Tal Distr.), 3-iv-io^ and one from 

 Gangapur' Pattia (Naini Tal Distr.), 4-iv-io. 



Pachyrhina dorsopunctata, mihi, sp. nov. 



cf ? . Bengal, South India, Cejdon. Long, cf 12—14, 9 

 15 — 18 mm. 



Head deep yellow. Proboscis, labella and palpi more or less 

 brownish. Antennal scape deep yellow, flagellum wholly black. 



Thorax. — Dorsum between the stripes orange-yellow, the 

 colour fading at the edges of the dorsum to paler yellow ; some- 

 times the whole dorsum pale yellow. Thoracic stripes dark 

 blackish brown, the median one sometimes a little paler towards 

 the anterior margin. The dark marks on the prothorax and behind 

 it, as in the other species, sometimes appearing as a definite con- 

 tinuation of the median thoracic stripe. Post-sutural stripes more 

 of a flattened triangle in shape, not joined to the outer stripes in 

 front of them. Scutellum black or dark brown, shining; meta- 

 notum yellowish on upper half, with or without narrow dark median 

 line, black on lower half. Sides concolorous, or a little paler, upper 

 and lower parts of sterno pleurae a little more orange. 



Abdomen yellow or orange-j^ellow, with a row of dorsal 

 elongate triangular black spots in the cf which have a tendenc}' 

 to spread out on the hind margin, actually doing so on the last 

 two segments. In the 9 , one specimen has the marks as in the 

 (f but they are rather more extensive ; the other has a black band 

 on the hind margin of each segment. Traces of a black narrow 

 side line in both sexes , belly yellowish. 



Legs wholly yellow ; tips of femora and tibiae narrowly black; 

 tarsi blackish. 



Wings very pale grey ; subcostal cell dark brown, prongs 

 of fork of upper branch of 4th longitudinal vein issuing quite 

 separately from discal cell. Halteres yellowish. 



Described from two a' cf and two 9 9 in the Indian Museum 

 from Katihar, 30 xi-09, type cf , Bhogaon, 20-xii-09 [both Purneah 

 District and Paiva] ; Maddathorai, Travancore, South India, 

 i7-xi-o8, type 9 [Annandale]. One 9 from Ceylon is in the Vienna 

 Museum. 



