296 tipulidtE. 



abdomen of one has a little more blackish colour than that of 

 the other. Dr. Annandale says that one of the specimens was 

 seen by him to be laying eggs in the hollow of a tree. 



200. (?) Pselliophora serraticornis, Brim. 



Pselliopliorn serraficonm, IJrinietti, Rec. Ind. Mus. vi, p. 242 

 (1911). 



? c^ . Head brownish yellow, A-ertex a little tinged with grey. 

 Palpi blackish. Antenna) very conspicuous : scape brownish 

 yellow, 1st joint a little over twice the length of the 2nd ; flagellar 

 joints verv deeply serrate on underside in the shape of two 

 pendent lobes to each joint, of equal size and length, the proximal 

 one black, the distal one brownish yellow : the last flagellar joint 

 (11th) has a conical tip, with a small distinct apical style; each 

 joint bears a verticel of hairs (four in number) at its base. 

 Thorax brownish yellow, more yellowish anteriorly, with three 

 darker dorsal stripes ; the median one rather broad, and bisected 

 by a narrow dark brown line, with which all the stripes are rather 

 sharply dehneated. Two spots behind the suture of similar colour 

 and delineation, of normal shape, the anterior one approximately 

 rounded, the hinder one more oblongo-triangular, Pleurae a little 

 greyish. Abdomen brownish yellow; the segments with blackish 

 markings on the hind margins towards the sides (the apical half 

 of the abdomen is wanting). Le(ii>: coxte and femora brownish 

 yellow ; tibite and tarsi dark brown or blackish. Wtwjs pale grey, 

 base and costal cell yellowish ; stigma dark brown but ill detined, 

 and a brownish suffusion, irregular in extent, below the stigma 

 extending around the discal cell ; also in less distinct manner, at 

 the base of both basal cells, at the origin of the 2nd longitudinal 

 vein and over the posterior cross-vein, and here and there over 

 some of the veins. Halteres brownish yellow. 



Lenrjth 12 millim. (incomplete). 



Described from a single example in excellent condition (except 

 for the loss of the apical half of the abdomen), taken by Felder 

 in 1861, in Ceylon. 



Type in the Vienna Museum. 



The end of the abdomen being broken off, the sex of the 

 specimen is undeterminable. The species is a very ronspicuous 

 one and, as regards the antennae, quite unlike any other that I have 

 seen or read of. The abdomen, so far as the middle, shows 

 no trace of any increase in width. It may not be a Pselliojyhora, 

 but the antennae cannot by any stretch of imagination be asso- 

 ciated with Tipida, yet the flagellum is distinctly verticillate, an 

 essentially Tipuline character. 



