igii.] E. Brunetti : Oriental Tipulidae. 267 



on apical half, sometimes quite blackish on that portion ; but 

 often the femora are mainly yellowish with an indistinct brownish 

 or blackish ring of varying width at the tip. The tibiae vary from 

 yellowish to brownish; the tarsi generally brownish yellow or brown. 



Wings pale grey ; the forks of the upper branch of the fourth 

 longitudinal vein vary in their emergence from the discal cell, 

 sometimes being distinctly separated, sometimes issuing simultan- 

 eously, and sometimes forming a short petiole. Stigma moderately 

 large, varying from pale yellow to brown; subcostal cell varying 

 from yellowish to rather dark brown. Halteres yellow. 



Described from a lengthy series in the Indian Museum from 

 Darjiling, 23 — 28-v-io [Brunetti}; 5 — io-viii-09 {Paiva^; i-x-08 

 \_Brunetti}; Kurseong, 19 — 24-vi-io, 5-vii-o8, 5 — S-ix-og, and Bhim 

 Tal, 19 — i7-ix-o6 [all Annandale]; Mussoorie, 22-V-05 [Brunetti], 

 and Gangtok, Sikhim, 22-V-03. In the Vienna Museum is a 5 from 

 Sikhim. 



GeographicaIv Distribution. — Probably the greater part of 

 the Himalayas. 



Type (f and $ in Indian Museum. 



Notes. — Apparently the commonest species to be found in the 

 hilly parts of North India, but no specimen has occurred either from 

 the plains or even from a hilly locality apart from the Himalayas. 



Section IIL DOLICHOPEZINL 

 SCAMBONEURA, Os. Sac. 



vittifrons, Wlk. {Liinnobia). Amboina. The t3^pe, a $ in 

 the British Museum, is reduced to a thorax and a wing only. I 

 can trace the existence of no other specimen. Osten Sacken 

 (writing from memory" of the type) removed the species to the 

 present genus, presumably on the strength of the characteristic 

 venation. 



dotata, Os. Sac. Described from two cf & from the 

 Philippines. 



MEGISTOCERA, W. 



fuscana, W. Java. This genus is unknown to me, but 

 Meijere records it from Java recently. Quite a number of species 

 have been included in this genus which do not belong here yet the 

 two original species included by Wiedemann are congeneric, filipes, 

 Fab., from Guinea and fuscana, from Java. The sexes have also 

 caused much confusion on account of the small size of the cf 

 genitalia and the fact that some species have long (sometimes 

 extraordinarily long) antennae in the cf only, whilst others have 

 these organs short in both sexes. Osten Sacken clears up a number 

 of mistakes (Berl. Ent. Zeits., xxx, 158) and recharacterises the 

 genus, loc. cit. Species of Eriocera with very long antennae have 

 several times been considered Megisiocerae, but the very different 



