304 TIPULIDyl-^. 



narrow median dark liue. Frons and proboscis i*eddish brown, 

 more greyish above in female. Palpi blackish, antennal scape and 

 basal joints of flagellum yellowish red, rest of flagellum black ; 

 first three joints of flagellum elongated, remainder mnch shorter 

 and slightly enlarged below in their centres. Thorax : sides and 

 gronud-colour of dorsum rich deep yellow ochre, bare ; dorsnm 

 with a pair of median dark grey contiguous stripes forming the 

 nsual centre stripe, with a shorter outer sti-ipe on each side, 

 almost contiguous. The whole of the dorsum of the postsutural 

 callosity occupied by a concolorous spot ; the dorsum of the 

 thorax just above the centre of the suture showing the bright 

 yellow ground colour. Scutellum and metauotum dark grey, a 

 narrow dark brown stripe joining roots of Avings to the scutellum. 

 Pleurae gold-yellow, with shining yellow reflections in certain 

 lights. Abdomen d.a,vk\)vo\v\\, microscopically pubescent; posterior 

 margins of segments very slightly darker. In the female there is 

 a tendency to a narrow irregular dorsal stripe, formed by the 

 rather paler centres of the segments. Belly dark blackish grey. 

 Genitalia of male consisting of a comparatively small dorsal 

 plate bilobed almost to its base, narrower behind, with yellow 

 hairs ; a pair of claspers with a very large, approximately conical, 

 black-haired basal joint and a much smaller scoop-shaped second 

 joint, with yellowish hairs. The eighth ventral segment has its 

 edge emarginate in the middle, bent in a sharp curve and clothed 

 in that part with bright golden yellow hairs. Intermediate organs 

 invisible. Ovipositor of female shining brown, with reddish tips. 

 Lerfs : coxae gold-yellow, rather shining, with a few hairs ; femora 

 and tibiae brownish yellow, tarsi rather darker ; tips of femora 

 with a rather narrow black ring. Wiiir/s brownish yellow, veins 

 of a little deeper colour. The centres of most of the cells on the 

 posterior half of the wing rather clearer, and an indistinct 

 transverse clear streak just before the hai'dly visible stigma. 

 Halteres blackish. 



Lenf/tJi '33 millim., excl. proboscis 3 millim., and ovipositor 

 3 milhm. 



Described from a male {type) and two females, all from Darjiliug, 

 ■3-9. vi. 09 {F. M. Hewlett), and a female {type) from Kurseong, 

 24. vi. 10 {Annandale) ; a further female in the Indian Museum 

 from the Nilgiri Hills, 3500 ft., ix. 10 {H. L. Andrewes). 



Type S in the Pusa collection, type 5 in the Indian 

 Museum. 



204. Tipula fulvolateralis. Brim. (PL VI, fig. 15.) 



Tipulaftdvohitemlis, Brunetti, Ptec. Ind. Mus. vi, p. 249 (1911). 



(S $ . Head : vertex grey ; frons one-fourth the width of the 

 head, yellow, with a little grey. Proboscis yellowish, dark brown 

 at tip and on underside, also the labella and the palpi. Antennae 

 yellow, brown towards the tips. ThomA- : dorsum brownish grey, 

 .forming the usual three dorsal stripes which are nearly contiguous, 



