1911.] H. Brunetti : Oriental Tipulidae. 295 



The value of the exact position of the posterior cross-vein is 

 not of primary importance, as not only in the closely allied genus 

 Gonomyia, but in other genera throughout the family, the position 

 of this vein is not by an}^ means precisely constant even in the 

 same species, 



Osten Sacken emphasizes " No empodia and no spurs" in his 

 generic notes, but observes that in some Gonomyiae ^ as well as in 

 the allied genus Lipsothrix , the empodia are wanting. 



The seven Indian species before me fall easily into the genera 

 Mongoma and Mongomioides, three in the former and four in the 

 latter. 



MONGOMA, Westw. 



Type of genus M. fragillima, Westw. (from Tropical Africa). 



pennipes, Os. vSac, & 9 . Described from Borneo, but it 

 occurs in India and Ceylon in both of which it is apparently widely 

 distributed. Meijere records (Tijd. v. Ent., liv, 50) that Jacobson 

 bred the species from rotten vegetable matter in Java. In the 

 Indian Museum from India and Ceylon. Dr. Brauer of the Berlin 

 Museum informs me that the type therein preserved is still in good 

 condition. Mr. Edwards records it recently from two locaHties in 

 Ceylon. 



tcncra, Os. Sac, a* $ . Philippines. Two cf> & and a 9 in 

 the Indian Museum from South India and the base of the Hima- 

 layas can hardly fail to be this species. One specimen in the 

 Vienna Museum. 



Type (a unique cf ) presumably in the Osten Sacken collection. 



PARAMONGOMA, mihi, gen. nov. 



Type of genus Cylindrotoma albitarsis, Dol. 



Mongoma id., Wulp, et auct. 



This genus differs from Mongoma, Westw., only in the venation, 

 principally in the (typically) punctiform contact of the 2nd 

 longitudinal vein with the discal cell, thus obliterating the -^rd 

 longitudinal vein {albitarsis, Dol., generic type) ; or the presence of 

 only a very short 3rd longitudinal vein. The discal cell emits 

 only three veins (arguing from analogy and comparing the wing 

 with that of Mongoma, it should be the anterior branch of the 

 4th longitudinal vein that is forked), thus making only three 

 posterior cells, the first and second of which are of equal length, 

 with pointed bases.' The anal cell is open, somewhat narrowly 

 but distinctly. 



I Vide footnote i on p. 291. 



