414 TIPULTD.T^. 



including maroinal cross-vein ; tip of 2n(l vein ; tip of .interior 

 brancli of 4tii; tips of 5tli and 7tli veins; base of 3rd vein, 

 tlie spot extending over the anterior cross-vein ; and the posterior 

 cross-vein. Haheres pale yellow, tips of knobs black. 



LeiK/th 8 milliin. 



Keiioscribed from two males and two females in tlie Indian 

 Museum, from Darjiling, 6. viii. 09 (Paiva) ; Mazbat, Mangaldai 

 district, Assam, 11-15. x. 10 (Kemp); and Peradeniya, Ceylon, 

 ."). viii. 10 and J 5. x. 09 (Oreen). There is a female in the Vienna 

 Museum, also from Ceylon. 



Tijpe cJ in the Amsterdam Museum. 



Meijere described only the male. The species varies con- 

 siderablv in size. 



302. Libnotes rufa, Meij. 



Lihnotes rufa, Meijere, Tijd. Ent. liv, p. o9 (1911). 



S $ . Head bright orange-yellow ; proboscis and palpi brown ; 

 antennee formed as in L. fuscinervis, dark brown, except the 

 brownish yellow scape. Thorax and abdomen, with belly, bright 

 orange-yeilow ; dorsum of abdomen with the faintest trace 

 of a very narrow black line. Genitalia resembling those of 

 L. fuscinervis, with a rather small, narrowly conical organ between 

 the claspers and the ventral sheath. Legs mainly pale orange- 

 yellow ; fore femora black on distal three-fourths, ])osterior femora 

 black towards tips ; tarsi black at tips, ^yings clear grey ; costal 

 cell, as far as the dark brown stigma, and base of wing 

 oi'ange-yellow in male, black or blackish in female ; veins con- 

 colorous. Venation as in L. notata, Wulp. Halteres yellow; 

 clubs black. 



Lem/th 11 raillim. 



Keciescribed from specimens in tlie Indian Museum from 

 Calcutta, 5. viii. 08 {Annandale), and Peradeniya, Ceylon, 13 and 

 IT.vn.liO (Gravehj); also from two in my own collection from 

 Calcutta, taken by me. Mr. E. E. Green has also sent specimens 

 for identification from Ceylon. 



'fype 2 ill the Amsterdam Museum. 



In Osten Sacken's table of Oriental species the present one 

 would be separated from L. imjmnens, Walk, by the orange-yellow 

 (not piceous) abdomen, the yellow veins and the absence of the 

 long black stigma ; but this latter chai-acter would not so easily 

 distinguish the female. Meijere described only the female (from 

 Java), but there can be little doubt, the male attributed here to 

 his species is really the other sex, being quite identical in all 

 respects except for the striking difference in the colour of the 

 costal cell. In this species, in the specimens that have come 

 before me at least, the 1st longitudinal vein seems to fade away 

 at its tip instead of turning up as usual into the costa, and as the 



