PABACLADURA, 503 



TiPULiD^i:. All the joints are very elongated, minutely pubescent. 

 The whole antenna if bent backwards would reach the basal 

 segments of the abdomen. The venation affords several very 

 marked differential characters. The subcostal cross-vein is situated 

 a long distance before the tip of the auxiliary vein, only a short 

 distance beyond the base of the 2nd longitudinal. The auxiliary 

 vein ends gradually in the costa at about two-thirds the length of 

 thawing. The ]st longitudinal vein is very long, following the 

 line of the costa nearly to the tip of the upper branch of the 2nd 

 longitudinal vein, and parallel to that section of that vein ; thus 

 ending much nearer the tip of the wing than is usually the case. 

 The subcostal cross-vein is placed near the middle of the wing, 

 joining the auxiliary vein to the 1st longitudinal, not very far 

 beyond the beginning of the 2nd vein. The 2nd vein commences 

 almost before the first third of the wing, at a moderate angle, 

 forking just opposite the tip of the auxiliary vein, the branches 

 practically parallel ; the prsefurca longer than the lower branch, 

 which itself is rather longer than the upper one. J^iarginal 

 cross- vein just beyond the fork, and a little beyond the tip of the 

 auxiliary vein. The 3rd vein originates a little before the fork 

 of the 2nd vein in an almost punctiform manner, meeting the 

 anterior cross-vein at the same point. The 3rd longitudinal vein 

 runs straight to immediately below the wing-tip. Anterior cross- 

 vein of moderate length, meeting the discal cell before its middle, 

 which cell is pointed at its proximal end. Upper branch of 4th 

 longitudinal vein forked at half that portion of it lying beyond 

 the discal cell, the veinlets nearly parallel. Lower branch of 4th 

 vein acutely forked in the discal cell, the posterior cross-vein 

 situated just beyond the fork. The 5th longitudinal veii; bent at 

 its union with the cross-vein ; 6th vein nearly straight. The 7th 

 longitudinal vein remarkably short, much less than half the length 

 of the 6th vein, its tip bent sharply to the wing-margin. 



Range. India. 



The two Indian species may be separated easily as follows : — 



Wings clear yracili.% I>run. 



Wings with an infuscated band across the middle. . elet/ans, IJrun. 



360. Paracladura gracilis. Brim. 



Paracladura yracilis, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. vi, p, 287 (1911). 



(5 $ . Head : eyes separated above by a frons wider than one- 

 third the width of the head ; face above antennae distinctly 

 gibbous. Proboscis rather long, narrow, pale yellow, a little 

 hairy ; palpi with 1st joint pale yellow, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th black. 

 Antennal scape pale yellow, slightly pubescent, joints very short, 

 almost annuliform ; flagellum of fifteen very elongate joints, 

 closely but shortly pubescent, with one or two longer hairs at the 



