XIII. 

 TIPULID^ IN INVERNESS-SHIRE. 



By Robert Henderson. 

 (Paper read 1st December, i8gg, and 2nd February, igoo.) 



When, through the goodness of Mr. James J. F. X. King, 

 F.E.S., the collection of Tipulidae made by him at Guisachan (a 

 seat of the Rt. Hon. Baron Tweedmouth), in Inverness-shire, from 

 June 15th till August 19th, 1899, was placed in my hands for 

 determination, I gladly undertook the work. Being engaged in 

 the study of the group and the preparation of a list of the species 

 occurring in the Clyde area, I was much interested in the oppor- 

 tunity thus afforded of becoming acquainted, in a measure, with 

 another area, and in having placed at my disposal the means of 

 instituting a comparison of the distribution of species in the two 

 districts. At the present time the student can, for the most part, 

 make such comparisons by direct observation alone, records being 

 extremely few. For the county of Inverness I have not been able 

 to find more than two records, viz., Limnobia trivittata, Schum., 

 and Rhypholophus similis, Staeg., noted by Mr. G. H. Verrall in the 

 Entomologist 's Monthly Magazine for 1886. 



In addition to the interest afforded by extending one's know- 

 ledge of the distribution of species, there was also the hope of 

 finding in the collection some species which one had not met with 

 in Clydesdale, and in this I was not disappointed. Besides the 

 three species referred to more fully below, I was pleased to see 

 Rhypholophus varius, Mg., and Tipula excisa, Schum., which were 

 previously unknown to me ; and there were a few examples of 

 species which I had only met with singly in this district, but these 

 need not be specified here. 



