igii.] B. Brunetti : Oriental Tipulidae. 313 



Wings brown on anterior half, the colour gradually fading 

 away posteriorly to the grey hind margin. 



A small (roughly crescent-shaped) hyahne spot across the ist 

 basal cell, entering the cell above and below, and situated close to 

 the origin of the 3rd vein. Four posterior cells ; discal cell 5-sided, 

 the veinlets from its outer upper side almost parallel. Anterior 

 cross-vein opposite fork of 2nd ; posterior cross- vein at lower corner 

 of discal cell; fork of upper branch of 2nd longitudinal vein just 

 before its middle. Halteres black. 



Described from a type & in the Vienna Museum from Central 

 Tonkin and a single 5 (type) in the Pusa collection, taken in 

 April 1905 in the Khasi Hills, Assam, at 1,000 to 3,000 feet 

 altitude. 



Erioccra grcenii, mihi, sp. nov. 



$ . Ceylon and Java(?). Long. 16 mm. 



Head dark grey, with black hairs. Frons broad, but very 

 short, of uniform width, one- third the width of the head. 

 Proboscis dark brown, with peculiar large, pale yellow, flattened, 

 apparently two-jointed lamellae at the tip. Palpi dark blackish 

 brown. Antennal scape blackish, with stiff black hairs, the tip 

 of the ist joint with a circlet of stronger ones; 2nd joint short ; 

 flagellum brownish yellow, becoming brown at the tip, covered 

 with irregularly placed black hairs. 



Thorax. — Dorsum very dark rich velvet-brown, with a few 

 isolated short black hairs on anterior part. Two short blackish 

 stripes towards the sides ; no trace of a median stripe. Scutellum, 

 metanotum and sides concolorous, all bare of pubescence ; the 

 region round the root of the wing blackish. 



Abdomen rich dark brown; extreme base of ist segment 

 with a sHghtly yellowish grey tinge ; base of 2nd and 3rd segments 

 and posterior margin narrowly of remaining segments blackish. 

 The abdomen bare except for a few short pale hairs on the hind 

 margins of some of the apical segments. Ovipositor conical, 

 blackish, dull, bare, terminal blades reddish yellow. 



Legs.— Coxae rich dark brown, trochanters bright, lighter 

 reddish brown, femora and tibiae bright brownish yellow, tips of 

 both black, tarsi darker. All the legs finely black pubescent. 



Wings wholly dark brown, a little darker on the costa near 

 the base, and a little lighter in the anal and axillary cells. _A 

 small white spot near the tip of the marginal cell, and a still 

 smaller similar one in the ist submarginal cell ; a larger (but still 

 small) marginal white spot extending transversely over the tip of 

 the 3rd vein. Venation as in semilimpida, except that the upper 

 branch of the 4th vein not being forked, there are only four 

 posterior cells. Halteres all black. 



Described from a single specimen collected by Mr. E. E. Green 

 at Kandy, 24-xi-09. 



Type in Indian Museum. 



