490 TIPULID^. 



pale browu and consist of a long, moderately dark brown stigma 

 tilling the marginal cell from the marginal cross-vein, proximally ; 

 the suffusion spreads over all the cross-veins, rather paling in 

 intensity, till it reaches and embraces the posterior cross-vein ; 

 two quite round spots on the costa, over the subcostal cross-vein 

 and the base of the 2nd vein ; a round spot at the tip of the 1st 

 subinarginal cell, embracing tlie tip of the anterior branch of 

 the 2nd vein ; and the tips of all the veins except the 3rd and 

 the 6th. 



Length 5 millim. 



Described from a single perfect female from Dhakuri, Kumaon 

 district, 8900 feet (A. D. Imms). 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



A striking abnormality in this species, which is a very con- 

 spicuous and pretty one, is the 15-jointed antenna. I refrain 

 from establishing a new genus on the strength of this feature 

 alone. 



351. Gnophomyia genitalis, sp. nov. (PI. IX, fig. 16.) 



^ 5 . Head : vertex and frons ash-grey, the latter one-fourth 

 the width of the head in the male, more than a third in. the 

 female. Antennae light brown, 13-jointed ; scapal joints normal ; 

 1st joint of the flagellum very long and as wide as the 2nd scapal 

 joint, flattened; the remaining flagellar joints oval, verticillate 

 and closely pubescent, the last one (the eleventh) with thicker 

 pubescence and tliree stiff hairs at tip. Thorax wholly light 

 brownish grey, including scutellum, metanotum and the sides. 

 Abdomen light brownish grey, ■\\ith pale grey pubescence. 

 Genitalia of male very large and conspicuous ; the 1st joint of the 

 claspers long, cylindro-ovate, grey, highly pubescent; the 2nd 

 joint bifid, composed of a long, slightly sinuate, shining brown, 

 narrow, hook-tipped piece, and a rather shorter and softer, broader 

 palp-like piece ; a small dorsal grey plate, with long reddish 

 yellow hairs on the hind margin. Ovipositor normal, brownish 

 yellow. Ler/s brown, coxae }'ellowish; all the legs yellowish in 

 the female. Wings very pale grey. Auxiliary vein ending at a 

 little beyond the middle of the wing ; subcostal cross-vein exactly 

 at its tip, both lying very close to the costa ; the 1st longitudinal 

 vein ending some distance beyond ; the 2nd vein beginning before 

 the middle of the wing, divided by the origin of the 3rd vein and 

 the fork of the 2nd into three about equal lengths, the praefurca 

 thus being two-thirds the length of the vein, the branches of the 

 fork gently diverging; marginal cross-vein exactly at, or very 

 slightly before, the fork of the 2nd vein ; the 3rd vein beginning 

 at the end of the 1st third of the 2nd vein ; discal cell much 

 narrower at base ; anterior branch of the 4th vein forked shortly 

 but widely near the tip ; posterior cross-vein near the middle of 



