368 



tipulid.t:. 



Legs dark, tips of femora darker; v/ings 

 dark grey, with small pale spots, including 

 two larger yellowish grey triangular ones 

 on the costa demarcata, sp.n.,p.370. 



3. Discal cell absent 4. 



Discal cell present G. 



4. Upper branch of 4th longitudinal vein 



forked ; discal cell coalescent with 2nd 



posterior cell 5. 



Upper branch of 4th vein not forked, nor 

 lower branch either tenellu, Meij. (not 



5. Femora yellow with broadly black tips ; Indian). 



tibiaj white, with black rings ; tarsi 



■white kobusi, Meij., p. 371. 



Legs uniformly brownish yellow, no rings ; 

 no white tarsi cthseiis, sp. n., p. 372. 



6. Tarsi mainly snow-white, or hind pair only 



(in longivenu) 7. 



Tarsi unicolorous, or at least never snow- 

 white 8. 



7 {a). Tarsi all white (presumably), including [p. 872. 



metatarsus cuneifonnis, Meij., 



(6). Tarsi with at least the middle pair con- 

 colorous with the brown femora and 



tibiaj lonr/ivena, Edw., p. 374. 



(c). Metatarsi dark on basal third or half*, saltans, Dol., p. 373. 

 8. Thorax with dorsum wholly deep shining [p. 385. 



black . . 7iiffrithorax, sp. n., 



Thorax never deep shining black : if black, 

 then dull ; if shining, then not deep 

 black, mostly yellowish, brownish yellow 



or grey 9. 



9 (rt). Wing with three or five very distinct 



dark spots on costa 10. 



(b). Wing without conspicuous dark spots 

 on costa, but with sufficiently numerous 

 distinct spots or marks to be obvious as a 



pattern 12. 



{c). Wing barely marked at all, such marks 

 i'aint, small, or not distinctly obvious . . 14. 



10. Wing with five very conspicuous spots on [p. 376. 



costa included in a general pattern .... prilchripennis, sp. n.. 

 Wing with only three conspicuous spots, 

 not so much a part of any general 

 pattern 11. 



11. Femora without apical black ring; pos- 



terior cross-vein distinctly before discal [p. 377. 



cell 2)uncticosta, sp. n., 



Femora with distinct narrow apical black 

 ring ; posterior cross-vein in a line with 

 discal cell fraterna, sp. n., p. 378. 



12. Two round small grey spots in axillary [p. 379. 



cell fascipetmis, sp. n., 



No such spots in axillary cell 13. 



* That is if I have identified the species correctly, although Doleschall says 

 simply " tarsi snow-white." 



