314 TlPULID.i:. 



214. Tipula splendens, sp. nov. (P]. Y, lig. 10.) 



cS . Head : vertex and frons light grey, with a faint pinkish 

 tinge ; frons forming one-third the width of the head. Lower 

 part of head from just below the flat nearly horizontal vertex dark 

 brown, the colour sharply divided from the grey upper part. 

 Upper and lower sides of proboscis concolorous with the upper 

 and lower sides respectively of the head ; palpi blackish. Antennae 

 with tlie soapal joints very light brown, the 1st joint with three 

 lines of indentation making it appear as if four-jointed ; flagellum 

 yellowish, base of joints very narrowly black, verticillate. Thorax: 

 of so many colours that it is difficult to speak of any one as the 

 ground-colour. The margin of the anterior half of the dorsum 

 moderately dark brown ; a wide median yellowish-brown stripe 

 (composed of two nearl}' contiguous ones), from the anterior 

 margin to the sutui'e, where it dwindles away to a point ; the 

 usual short outer stripes replaced by very conspicuous elongate 

 chalk-white spots, with a dark chocolate-brown margin on each 

 side ; in front of these spots the surface of the dorsum is yellowish, 

 much lighter than the median stripe ; the whole post-sutural 

 dorsum chalk-white, except the moderately narrow chocolate- 

 brown margin, which is continued unbroken along the sides of 

 the scutellum and metanotum. The scutellum chalk-white, the 

 colour being continuous from the posterior margin of the thoracic 

 dorsum. The transverse suture is a little brown about its middle, 

 in front of which, just posterior to the end of the median 

 yellowish-brown stripe, is a small shield-shaped whitish-grey 

 spot. Metanotum grey, with a thin dark median stripe pos- 

 tex"iorly. Sides of thorax, immediately below the dorsum, yellowish 

 with a fawn or pinldsh tinge; below this again, blackish grey 

 with an intermediate, darker brown, irregular, ill-defined line 

 dividing this colour from the yellowish upper part; pleura? 

 brownish or greyish. Abdomen brownish grey on first segment 

 and on the last two or three segments ; intermediate segments 

 yellowish ; at the sides, the lower edges of the upper plates of 

 the abdomen frosted with white. Underside of abdomen dark 

 grey, with numerous very small brown spots, from each of which 

 a short stiff hair emerges. Sides with very soft sliort pale hairs. 

 Genitalia dark brown ; an oblong upper dorsal plate, with a 

 groove in the middle above and a few yellowish hairs on the 

 posterior margin ;, the basal joint of the claspers normal, of 

 moderate size, apparently meeting below almost in the form of a 

 ventral plate ; 2ud joint of irregular shape, oval, crooked, and 

 apparently composed of a pair of leaf-shaped processes ; some 

 intermediate organs are visible, amongst which are one or more 

 hook-Hke (?) pieces. Legs: coxae greyish, femoi-a and tibije 

 brownish yellow, tips of each indistinctly black, tarsi blackish. 

 Winr/s almost clear, with longitudinal blackish streaks ; costal cell 

 and stigma brownish ; a straight blackish streak, with ill-defined 

 edges, along both sides of the 5th longitudinal vein from near its 



