454 TIPULIDJE. 



the peculiar appearance of tlie vertex being drawn forward, as it 

 were, into a pointed flap, which hangs down between the eyes ; 

 the sides of the irons, near the eyes, being bent inwards ; the 

 occiput, near the eye-margins, is whitish. Proboscis yellow, with 

 large yellow labell'a at tip ; palpi dark brown. Auteuual scape 

 with the 1st joint long, cylindrical, yellowish ; 2nd broader and 

 shorter, rounded, a little' greyish; 'the flagellum with lighter 

 brownish yellow, elongate, oval joints ; distinctly pubescent, with 

 hairs of diiferent lengths and a verticel of a few much longer 

 hairs on each joint. Thonuv dull greyish brown ; a little yellowish 

 about the pleurae, on the shoulders and on the broad post-sutural 

 depression ; no distinct dorsal stripes, but there is in some speci- 

 mens an ill-defined indication of them. Scutellum and nieta- 

 notum more or less concolorous, the whole posterior part of the 

 thorax generally more yellowish than the anterior half. Abdomen 

 brownish or brownish yellow, hind margins and sides of segments 

 often blacidsh. Some soft yellow hairs over dorsum and sides. 

 Genitalia of the male consisting of a pair of elongated cylindrical 

 claspers, of one joint only, with a small black terminal hook which 

 appears to represent all there is of the second joint. Ovipositor 

 of female brownish yellow, normal in shape, small. Legs brownish 

 yellow, trochanters nearly as long as the coxa?, femora with a 

 'blackish subapical ring. Whujs yellowish grey. The auxiliary 

 v^ein lying very close to the Ist longitudinal and ending in the 

 eosta opposite the marginal cross-vein, the 1st vein ending half-way 

 between the marginal cross-vein and the tip of the wing ; the 2ud 

 longitudinal vein beginning much before the middle of the wing, 

 at a comparatively small angle, and forking just before the 

 marginal cross-vein, the branches being parallel and the prsefurca 

 being half the length of the vein ; the 3rd vein originating a little 

 before the fork of the 2nd, forming a distinct angle at its bend, 

 thence running parallel with the lower branch of the 2nd vein 

 straight to the wing-tip ; anterior cross-vein moderately long, in a 

 line with the basal section of the 3rd vein ; the 4tli vein forking 

 almost exactly by the anterior cross-vein, thus forming a short 

 basal side to the 2nd posterior cell (the discal cell being absent) ; 

 the upper branch of the 4th vein straight, simple, nearly parallel 

 with the 8rd vein, the 1st posterior cell being slightly narrow at the 

 tip ; the lower branch Avidely forked at half its length ; the 

 posterior cross-vein placed just before the fork of the 4th vein ; 

 the 5th and 6th veins nearly straight ; the 7th, after quitting the 

 6tb, takes a moderately wide curve and, towards the tip, again 

 turns downwards to the margin. The hairs on all the veins very 

 small and quite inconspicuous. Halteres yellowish. 

 Length 4-5 millim. 



Described from three males and six females in the Indian 

 1 seum from Darjiling, 5. viii. 09, including type male (Paivn), 

 also type female and other specimens (Annandale) ; Kurseong, 

 4-9.ix. 09; and Shanghai, South China, 8. v. 26 (Briineiti). 

 Types in the Indian Museum. 



