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costal cell more or less yellowish. Clearer spots occur iu the 

 wii)gs, generally towards the tip of the costal cell, at the base of 

 and in the middle of the subcostal, surrounded by the stigma ; a 

 streak just beyond the stigma, extending backwards ; a roundish 

 spot on the posterior part of the distal half of the second basal 

 cell, and sometimes small ones at the end of the 6th and 7th 

 longitudinal veins, all these pale spots being more or less indis- 

 tinct and ill-defined ; the wing occasionally being nearly wholly 

 clear, and having no yellow in it except in the neighbourhood of 

 the costa. Stigma always brownish, of varying intensity. Halteres 

 yellow, knobs black. 



Length to tip of nasus : J 11-14 millim. ; 5 11-20 millim. 

 (exclusive of the ovipositor). 



Described from a good series of both sexes in good condition 

 taken by me at Darjiling, 22. ix. 08 to 1.x. 08, in bushes on the 

 hillside and attracted by the lamps in houses during the evenings. 

 Frequently seen in cop. I also took several in the same locality 

 from 10-20. x. 05, and again from 23-29. v. 10. The Indian 

 Museum series comprises specimens from Bhim Tal, 4500 ft., 

 19-22. ix. 08, and Naini Tal, 6400 ft. {Dr. Anncmdale). The 

 species is probably common throughout the Himalayas. 



Types ^ S and $ , in the Indian Museum ; cotypes of both 

 sexes are also in that collection and my own. 



The species is variable, within certain limits, but can be easily 

 recognised by the wide pale yellow ring on all the femora about 

 as far from tlie tip as the width of the ring, a peculiarity I know 

 of in no other Oriental species with marmorated wings, except 

 T. elegans. I describe this species rather fully because it seems 

 typical of a small set of very closely allied, but distinct, species 

 frequenting the Himalayas. Three or four of these are present 

 in the Indian Museum. Possibly T. Jiimalayensis, or some of the 

 allied species referred to, may prove identical with Palsearctic 

 forms. 



217. Tipula tessellatipennis, sp. nov. (PI. V, fig. 13.) 



(S 2 ' Head wholly pale brownish yelloM', almost pinkish in the 

 female on the broad vertex ; labella of the proboscis black ; palpi 

 dark brown. Antennae brownish yellow, extreme base of flagellar 

 joints black. Thorax pale yellowish, with a greyish tinge ; darker 

 in male, which has a brownish-grey median stripe, darker at tne 

 edges and in the middle ; the female with a yellowish median 

 stripe, which has a brownish border on each side and a brownish 

 median line. Two elongate oval brownish side spots, with a similar 

 small one of the same colour on each shoulder ; behind the suture, 

 on each side of the dorsum, a small round spot and an elongate 

 posterior one ; the narrow broAMiish outer lines of the median 

 stripe extending to the posterior margin of the dorsum ; the sides 

 and all the rest of the thorax pale yellowish grey, A\ith whitish 

 reflections when viewed from different directions. Scutellum and 



