524 TIPULID.E. 



posteriorly and at the sides, and also on the sciitellum and meta- 

 notum. Abdomen brown, with pale hairs ; belly similar. Ovi- 

 positor with the basal part dark grey, the blades brownish yellow, 

 the two pairs of valves of equal length. Ler/s uniformly yellowish 

 brown. Wi'ir/s clear, moderately iridescent, V^enation tolerably 

 normal ; auxiliary vein ending opposite the fork of the 2nd vein, 

 Avhich forks rather widely at half its length, the marginal cross- 

 vein, which is very faint, placed at the fork ; the 3rd longitudinal 

 nearly straight, its basal section very short, the anterior cross-vein 

 moderately long ; upper branch of 4th longitudinal vein forked at 

 half its length after quitting discal cell, the veinlets diverging ; 

 discal cell twice as long as broad, the posterior cross-vein situated 

 just before the middle. Halteres dirty yellow. 



Length 3^ millim. 



Described from one female from Bho\\ali, Kumaon, 5700 feet, 

 29. vi. 10 {A. D. Imms). 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



Genus DICRANOPHRAGMA, Os. Sac. 



Dicranophraqma, Osten Sacken, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1859, 

 p. 240. 



Genotype, D. fuscovaria, Os. Sac. (North America); by original 

 designation. 



This genus differs from Lhnnophila only by the presence of a 

 cross-vein in the 2nd submarginal cell. When erected by its 

 author it was regarded as a subgenus only, but most authors to- 

 day give it generic rank. 



375. Dicranophragma pulchripennis, sp. nov. 



S . Jtead : frous narrow, yellow, as is also the vertex and back 

 of head. Antennae shining yellowish brown, shortly pubescent ; 

 scapal joints large. Proboscis rather short, brown ; palpi blackish ; 

 both moderately pubescent. Thorax : neck and dorsum of dark 

 ground-colour, with close greyish yellow microscopic pubescence. 

 kScutcUum and metanotum similar. A few short hairs towards 

 wiug-bases, on post-sutural callosities and on posterior part of 

 scutellum. Abdomen brownish yellow to blackish, dull, slightly 

 hairy ; a blackish line on eacli side of the dorsum, and the 

 posterior margins of segments shglitly pale ; belly similarly 

 marked. Genitalia of male brownish yellow ; apparently con- 

 sisting of a large upper and a lower hairy plate, between which is 

 a pair of elongated claspers, ending in sharp points. Legs uni- 

 formly pale yellow, distinctly but shortly pubescent throughout ; 

 femora sometimes with a narrow indistinct black ring just before 



