282 TIPULID.^, 



to the tip of the 5th vein, also a large apical brown part enclosing 

 the forks of the 3rd and 4th veins, both these brown parts in the 

 wing being connected with the costal darkening. Halteres black. 



Lemjtli 9 millim. 



Described from one female in the Pusa collection taken by 

 Mr. Howlett, 3-9. vi. 09, at Darjiling, 7000 feet. 



193. Ptychoptera tibialis, Bnm. 



Ptychoptera tibialis, Bruuetti, Rec. lud. Mus. vi, p. 233 (1911). 



cJ $ . Head : f rons shining black, smooth, bare ; eyes widely 

 separated; back of head brown; face below antennae, underside of 

 head, and palpi all bright yellow. Antennte lo-jointed ; 1st joint 

 cylindrical, yellow, brown towards tip ; 2nd short, bead-like, dark 

 yellow, mixed with brown ; 3rd as long as the next two together; 

 remainder elongated, compressed at each end, black ; antennae 

 minutely and thickly pubescent, and with moderately loDg 

 scattered hairs throughout. Thorax of male aeneous black, bare, 

 shining ; tiie suture separating the prothorax (which extends 

 backwards through the mesothorax, so to speak, almost to the 

 scutelluiii) rather deeply cut; humeri bright yellow; a white- 

 dusted patch in front on dorsum of prothorax. The mesothorax 

 is divided from the metathorax by a distinct suture, which on 

 reaching the extension of the prothorax follows it posteriorly and 

 di\ides the rear portion of the metathorax by a deeply cut 

 suture with a small yellow V-shaped spot in the middle of it, 

 this suture reaching the small bright yellow scutellum. Posterior 

 calli raspberry-x"ed, enlarged, elongated and extending from the 

 scutellum to the base of the wings. Sides of thorax shining 

 black ; a yellow scaly mesopleura connected with the yellow base 

 of the wings ; metapleurae with silvery sheen, seen from above ; 

 metanotum large, shining aeneous black, quadrate, bare. In the 

 female the thorax is orange, with a black stripe on each side of 

 the dorsum, the suture blackish, and a large black mark below 

 the scutellum, which latter, with the whole metanotum, is oi-ange. 

 Abdomen of male bright pale orange-brown, tending towards 

 yellowish ; 1st segment all blackish, 2nd elongated, black at base 

 and tip ; the next three segments black on posterior border. lu 

 female orange-brown, 2nd segment 3^ellowish. Eellj^ entirely 

 orange- yellow ( d $ ). The male genitalia very large, complex, 

 bright reddish orange, with some close black pubescence ; female 

 genitalia narrow, cylindrical, concolorous. Legs : coxae bright 

 yellow, bind pair black on the outside of the basal half: femora 

 bright yellow, hind pair black on the basal two-thirds except at 

 the extreme base ; anterior tibiae yellow, with the extreme tips 

 dark brown, the middle pair slightly darker on the basal half, the 

 bind pair with basal half black except the exti'eme base ; on the 

 apical half the bright golden yellow hair is very thick ; tarsi 

 blackish brown. The legs throughout are closely pubescent, the 



