394 TIPULID.I. 



brown, with a little pale pubescence. Thorax brownish yellow ; 

 three reddish brown stripes, all reaching from the anterior to the 

 posterior margin, the median one a little broader than the others. 

 Shoulders depressed. Sides of thorax yellow, a median transverse 

 brown line ; a blackish indistinct mark with whitish dust in front 

 of wing-base. Scutellum very small, yellow ; metanotuin yello^\•isb, 

 broadly brown on each side. Abdomen dark dirty yellowish brown ; 

 emarginations of segments very distinct, as each segment is 

 apparently slightly narrower at the base. Belly similar. Ovipositor 

 brownish yello\A-, paler at tip. Legs uniformly pale yellow, barely, 

 if at all, darker at tips of tarsi. Whir/s nearly clear, marked with 

 brown spots ; t^o larger ones, more or less sqnare in shape, on 

 basal half of costa, extending from costal margin to the 4th 

 longitudinal vein ; two somewhat large elongated ones placed 

 close together on the costa, exactly in the middle of the wing, and 

 joined posteriorly at about the origin of the 2nd vein ; two large 

 ones placed together at the distal extremity of the costa, reaching 

 posteriorly as far as the 3rd vein, Avhere they are united ; a small 

 clear spot in the distal one of this pair of spots is placed just 

 above the tip of the 3rd vein. Smaller spots of the same colour 

 are placed as follows : — two on the basal part of the costa, one 

 situated anterior to each of the two larger costal marks ; a round 

 spot at the bifurcation of the 2nd vein ; a row of indistinct small 

 ones along the up]ierside of the 5th vein ; around the inner and 

 outer sides of the diseal cell : and around the posterior cross-vein, 

 which is placed distinctly anterior to the diseal cell ; also at the 

 tip of the 7th vein. Very small indistinct spots are apparently 

 irregularly placed here and there, especially towards the posterior 

 apical part of the wing. Costal cell yellow except where the 

 brown spots occur. Halteres brownish. 



Length 4 millini. 



Described from a single female from Kurseong, 7. ix. 09 

 (^Annandaie). 



Ti/pe in the Indian Museum. 



285. Geranomyia semistriata, Bnm. (PI. VII, fig. 17.) 



Geratio})u/ta scniistriafa, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mas. vi, p. 277 



(1911): 



5 . Hend dark grey, frons narrow ; back of head and neck 

 blackish grey. Proboscis black, distinctly longer than head and 

 thorax together ; palpi black, inserted before the middle of the 

 proboscis. AntenncT brownish yellow, sometimes darker. Thorax : 

 dorsum brownish or light grey, dusted A\ith grey ; three narrow- 

 reddish brown stripes : the median one from the anterior margin 

 to about the middle of the dorsum ; the outer ones beginning 

 behind the shoulders and carried over the suture without interrup- 

 tion to the posterior margin ; an additional narrow intermediate 

 stripe between them commencing behind the suture and continued 



