516 TIPULIDJE. 



blackish ventral plate. Legs : coxae pale yellow, fore pair black, 

 slightly thickened towards tip ; posterior femora brownish 

 yellow; tibiae and tarsi brownish yellow with blackish tips. 

 Wings clear, very iridescent; venation normal, discal cell closed, 

 veins yellow ; stigma represented by only a very slight brownish 

 yellow darkening. Halteres rather long-stemmed, yellowish and 

 distinctly pubescent throughout. 



Length 5-5| millim. 



Described from two males taken by me, 1. x. 08, at Darjiling. 



Tij2)e in the Indian Museum. 



369. Amalopis elegans, sp. nov. (PI. X, fig. 11.) 



(S 2 ' Head : antennae and palpi yellowish, with barely a tinge 

 of brown ; occiput with a few short golden hairs ; eyes widely 

 .separated. Thoraoe pale yellowish, with white dusting; three 

 dorsal pale brown stripes, the median one double, not quite 

 attaining the anterior margin and terminating indistinctly before 

 the suture ; outer ones shorter ; mesonotum behind suture 

 .slightly tinged with brownish ; sides of thorax dirty yellowish, 

 ipleurse a little dark. Scutellum pale whitish yellow ; metanotum 

 ■rather elongate, a little darkened. In the female the tlioracic 

 •stripes are less distinct. Abdomen of male darker, of female 

 llighter, brown, in both sexes with distinct yellow pubescence at 

 .the sides ; belly coucolorous. Grenitalia of both sexes brownish 

 -yellow, moderate in size, apparently normal. Legs very pale 

 yellow, extreme tips of all the joints a little blackish ; femora 

 with a little pubescence on the underside. Wings very pale 

 •grey. Venation normal, but the posterior cross-vein placed at 

 the basal corner of the discal cell, the latter being four-sided and 

 Ikite-shaped ; all the veins, except on tlie basal half of the wing, 

 very narrowly infuscated, just sufficient to be distinctly per- 

 -ceptible ; at the prtefurca, the cross-veins, tip of the auxiliary 

 Hind of the upper branch of the 2nd longitudinal vein, the 

 •darkening is slightly more noticeable; stigma, limited by the 

 tip of the auxiUary vein and the marginal vein, pale brownish 

 yellow, the tip of the marginal cell being slightly more hyaline 

 than the rest of the wing. Halteres blackish. 



Length 3.4-4 millim. 



Described from two males and a female all taken at Kurseong 

 by Dr. Annandale, the type male on 28. vi. 10, the tijpe female 

 20. vi. 10, the other male'lS. vi.lO. 



Types in the Indian Museum. 



