518 TIPULID^. 



short palpi short, 1st joint somewhat attenuated, the other 

 three joints stouter. Antennae with the unusual number of 

 thirteen joints ; * if bent backwards they would barely reach the 

 dorsum of the thorax ; the joints of the flagellum oblong ; 

 antennae of the male with dense delicate pubescence, the 

 alternate joints with shoi't verticels. Thorcuv with the anterior 

 part produced into a short neck, moderately broad ; the dorsum 

 moderately arclied, the suture distinct. Abdomen elongate, 

 (xenitalia of male club-shaped, consisting of the usual large basal 

 pair of claspers surmounted by horny terminal appendages ; one 

 pair of these appendages is elongate needle -3haped,t conspicuous 

 ill, at least, living specimens, apparently shrivelling up in dried 

 ones. The female ovipositor has the upper valves rather long, 

 broad, arcuated and blunt; the lower ones being shorter and 

 moderately broad. Legs long and slender: tibia? with minute 

 spurs ; t empodia distinct, ungues very minute. Wings rather 

 elongate or moderately broad ; two submarginal cells and five 

 posterior cells ; the discal cell closed or open. The auxiliary 

 vein ending at about thi-ee-fourths the length of the wing, the 

 1st longitudinal vein a little beyond ; the subcostal cross-vein at 

 about one-third of the wing ; the 2nd longitudinal vein begins in 

 a curve, about the middle of the wing, the prrefurea from one- 

 third to one-half the length of tlie vein, the branches approxi- 

 mately parallel ; the 3rd vein issuing either from towards the end 

 of the prcefurca or from the beginning of the lower branch ; the 

 anterior cross-vein nearly or quite in a line with the basal section 

 of it, joining the 4th vein at or very near its forking ; upper 

 branch of 4th vein practically in a straight line with the basal 

 section, forked near its tip ; the lower branch forked before its 

 middle, the proximal end of the 3rd posterior cell pointed ; the 

 posterior cross-vein just beyond the fork of the 4th vein ; the 

 5th, 6th, and 7th longitudinal veins nearly straight, 



liange. The only three species prev^iously known are from 

 North America. 



Only tA\o Indian species are referable to llhapliidolabis, and 

 there seems no reasonable doubt that they belong to this gemis 

 as the venation and other characters agree, though eac-h has dis- 

 tinctly 15-jointed antennae, whereas Osten Sacken specifies 13 as 

 the normal number. The generic diagnosis may advisably be 

 altered to embrace 15-jointed species. 



The two species may be distinguished as follows: — 



Wings wlrolly unmarked indica, sp. n. 



Wiugs with several small blackisli infuscations . fampennis, sp. n. 



* This is on the authority of Osten Sacken, referring to E. tenuipes, Os. 



Sac, of which he examined a living specimen. 



t From winch the generic name is derived, meaning " needle-forceps."' 



\ These mr>y easily be overlooked, according to Osten Sacken ; personally 



I have not been able to detect any. 



