306 TIPULIDiE, 



mesothorax by a deep suture. Scutellum and metanotuiu brownish 

 yellow, with lighter reflections and some pale hairs. Abdomen 

 uniformly shining dark brown, bare. Belly lighter, with a few 

 liglit hairs. Ovipositor shining dark brown. Legs : coxae light 

 yellowish brown, with pale yellow hairs ; femora and tibiae 

 yellowish ; femora with a rather broad black ring at tip. Wings 

 uniformly blackish brown; posterior part slightly lighter; veins 

 blackish. Posterior cross-vein somewhat thickened and infuscated, 

 a character in which the veins in the immediate vicinity appear 

 inclined to partake. Discal cell distinctly longer than the petiole 

 of the 4tli vein, this petiole rather more than half the length of 

 the terminal veinlets. Halteres blackish. 



Length 20 millim.,excl. proboscis 2 millim. and ovipositor 2 millim. 



Described from one female in the Pusa collection, taken by 

 Mr. F. M. Howlett at Darjiling, 3-9. vi. 09. I have a damaged 

 specimen from Mussoori that I captured there in June 1909. 



20G. Tipula princeps, sp. nov. 



cT 5 . Head: occiput and frons blackish grey, with black hairs. 

 Neck brownish yellow. Proboscis brownish yellow, with very 

 short black hairs ; palpi black. Antenna! scape pale yello\A-ish, 

 2nd joint very short ; flagellum with oval joints, a little blackish 

 at base, where they have two long hairs on each side. Thorax : 

 dorsum soft light blackish grey, the usual stripes nearly contiguous 

 and filling the surface ; median stripe double ; thorax behind 

 suture coucolorous, extreme edges of dorsum yellowish, as are the 

 whole of the sides of the thorax and the metanotum, except the 

 middle of the latter, which, M'ith the scutellum, is concolorous 

 with the thoracic dorsum. Abdomen of male rather dark brownish 

 yellow ; an elongated blackish spot, darker anteriorly, in middle 

 of each segment, giving the appearance of a dorsal black stripe ; 

 a black line on each side of the abdomen, merging into the wholly 

 black apical two or three segments. Genital organs mainly con- 

 cealed, but the following points are visible : a blackish-brown 

 plate, suddenly contracted to a point posteriorly ; a large pair of 

 dark brown, shortly pubescent claspers, the 2nd joint of which 

 is conical, pale yellowish ; the ventral portion of the Sth abdo- 

 minal segment is large, V-shaped, with some quantity of long, 

 bright golden-yellow hairs at its lower extremity. There is also 

 a pair of curious large, pale yellowish-white, very thin, slightly 

 cvu'ved, sharply pointed inner plates, apparently protecting and 

 covering the second joint of the claspers. Some inner organs are 

 just visible, but are too hidden to be properly observed. Legs : 

 coxae pale brownish yellow ; femora at base of the same colour, 

 darkening graduall}-^ to the tip, where thei'e is a distinct 

 though not well-defined, apical black ring ; tibiae and tarsi 

 blackish or very dark brown. Wings pale grey ; costal cell 

 yellow as far as the tip of the upper branch of 2nd longitudinal 



