TIPULA. 335 



Thorax wholly browuish yellow, including seutellnm, metanotum, 

 and sides. Abdomen with the first segment yellowish, the 

 remainder dark brown, with minute pale pubescence. Ovipositor 

 shining reddish brown, long, the lower valves shorter and set 

 further back than the upper ones. Legs brownish yellow ; tips of 

 femora narrowly black, tips of tibiae more narrowly black, tips of 

 tarsi blackish." Wings very pale grey; costal cell yellowish; 

 stigma very faint, pale blackish ; a small sub-hyaline space in 

 front of it, extending over the costal and marginal cells (present 

 in only one wing). Discal cell small, pentagonal, all the sides 

 comparatively short; pedicle of fork of upper branch of 4th 

 longitudiualVein about half the length of the nearly parallel 

 veinlets. Halteres dirty yellowish. 



Length 17 millim., without ovipositor (2 milUm.). 



Described from a single female from Plakgalla, Ceylon, 29. ix. 09 

 {E. E. Green). 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



238. Tipula demarcata, Bnm. 



Tipula demarcata, Brunetti, liec. Ind. Mas. vi, p. 259 (1911). 



$ . Head brownish yellow ; frons dark grey or yellowish grey, 

 about one-third of the head in width ; in one specimen there are 

 two small black spots on each side, contiguous to the eye margins, 

 and connected thereon by a narrow black line. Proboscis brownish 

 vellow ; palpi thin, brownish yellow, darker at tip ; labella 

 blackish. Antennal scape yellowish, 1st joint with some black 

 hairs at the tip, making it appear darker in colour, 2nd scapal 

 joint very short ; flagellar joints much elongated, brownish yellow 

 or grey ; base of each joint very narrowly black, a verticel of four 

 hairs at the base of each joint, two hairs on the upper and two 

 on the lower side. Thorax : dorsum mummy-brown (type) or 

 yellowish ; a narrow dorsal median dark brown line from the 

 :auterior border to the suture. Scutellum coneolorous ; meta- 

 notum pale semi-livid brownish yellow, moderately shining ; sides 

 of thorax very pale pinkish or whitish grey, the colour extending 

 across the neck ; it is sharply separated from the dark dorsum, 

 the line of demarcation running from just above the shoulders to 

 below the root of the wing, thence posteriorly to the metanotum. 

 Abdomen : ground-colour brownish yellow, but the greater part of 

 ■each segment blackish, including the sides, except on the sidesof 

 the basal segments. In one specimen, an indistinct pale yellowish 

 narrow ring towards the base of many of the segments. A very 

 narrow, more or less indistinct pale brownish yellow transverse 

 line in front of the middle of each segment. _ Belly yellowish. 

 Ovipositor brownish yellow, sometimes marked with black, noi-mal, 

 lower valves shorter than upper one. Legs : coxae pale yellowish 

 grey or pinkish grey, fore pair more yellowish, trochanters very 

 pale yellow ; remainder of legs dark brownish yellow; femora may 



