330 TiPULiD.i:. 



towards the tip ; wings tawny, especially along the fore border, 

 near whose tip is a brown spot ; veins brown, poisers tawny. 



" Length of the body 8 lines, of the wings 18 lines. Nepaul." 

 (Walker.) 



I have not met with this species, but as the name is preoccupied 

 by De Geer in 1776 for a European species, I propose to rename it 

 1\ waikeri. 



230. Tipula melanomera, Wall-. 



Tipuhi melanomera, Walker, List. Dipt. Brit. jMus. i, p. 68 (1850). 



" Lsete fulva, capite abdominisque apice nigris, tlioracis disco 

 rufo, antennis nigris, pedibus rufo-fuscis, alls subfuscis, stigmate 

 obscuriore. 



" Allied to T. ocliracea. Body bright orange, velvet-like ; head 

 and its appendages black ; disc of the chest deep red ; tip of the 

 abdomen black ; legs dark reddish brown ; hips orange coloured ; 

 wings pale brown, with a darker spot of the same colour near the 

 tip of the fore-border ; veins dark brown, poisers brown, orange at 

 the base. 



" Length of the body 8 lines, of the wings 20 hnes. Nepaul." 

 {Walker.) 



231. Tipula quadrinotata, sp. nov. 



5 . Head dark grey, \\ ith short black hairs above and behind ; 

 frontal space very narrow, about one-tenth the width of tlie head ; 

 eyes pi-actically contiguous below. Anteunal scape yellowy 1st joint 

 long, 2nd very short ; flagelluin yellowish, with the bases of the 

 joints black, and with a verticel of hairs. Proboscis reddish yellow, 

 pubescent, tip dark brown ; palpi black. Thorax : entire margin 

 of dorsum light grey, the whole of the remainder of the dorsum 

 occupied by two broad median stripes (separated by a very narrow- 

 pale line as far as the centre of the thorax), and a broad outer 

 stripe on each side of them, practically contiguous ; behind the 

 suture the dorsum is likewise dark grey ; sides of thorax yeUovvish, 

 rather more brownish immediately below the dorsum. Scutellum 

 dark grey; metanotum pale yellowish, with a greenish grey dorsum 

 bearing some short golden yellow hairs. Abdomen brownish grey, 

 with microscopic golden yellow hairs and a smooth blackish 

 grey posterior border; dorsum of 1st segment yellowish. Belly 

 greyish yellow, ^Aith short golden yellow pubescence. Leys 

 brownish yellow, microscopically pubescent ; tips of femora with 

 a moderately broad black ring ; tips of tibiae very narrowly black ; 

 tax'si rather darker. Wings yellowish grey ; extreme base and 

 costal cell yellowish ; stigma dark brown, apparently abruptly 

 terminated at the proximal end by a clear obliterative streak 

 running across the centre of the marginal cell, along the cross- 

 veins up to and across the discal cell, whitening those veins in its 

 progress ; veins yellowish brown, but black in the vicinity of the 

 discal cell. The 2nd basal cell with a small fuscous spot near its 



