554: EHrPHiD.i;. 



posterior cross-vein and the anal vein narrowly suffused with 

 black. Halteres pale yellowish brown. 



Lenr/th 3| millim. 



Described from a specimen in ojood condition in the Indian 

 Museum collection, I'rom Siliguri, 18-20. vii. 07. 



This species is very near li. maculijjennis, Wulp, but I believe 

 it is quite distinct, differing in the wing mariis and in the wholly 

 yellowish hind femora, these joints in Wulp's species having a 

 black ring in the middle. The palpi, too, in Wulp's species are 

 blackish, and the thorax is described as yellow with black stripes. 



403. Khyphus fenestralis, Scoii. var. indicus, Brun. (PI. XII, 

 tig. 4.) 



lihyphus fenestralis, var. indicus, Biiinetti, Ilec. lud, Mus. iv, 

 p. 201 (1911). 



lleferences to typical form. 



Tipula fenestralis, Scopoli, Entom. Cam. p. 322 (1763). 



Sylvicola brevis, Harris, Expos. Eugl. Ins. p. 104, pl. xxxi, ficr. 3 



(1776). 

 Anisopiis nebulosHs, IMeigen, Klass. i, p. lOo, 2 (1804). 

 Rhyi^fms fenestralis, Schiiier, Fauna Austr., Dipt. ii,p. 495 (1864).* 



6 2 ■ Head dusted with light grey. Eyes in male quite con- 

 tiguous for a considerable distance, in female separated by a irons 

 about one-fourth to one-fifth the width of the head ; ocelli placed 

 on a small protuberance ; proboscis and palpi blackish brown. 

 Antenna? black. Thorax pale bluish ash-grey, varying to yellowish 

 grey, with three chocolate-coloured stripes of the usual pattern, 

 the median one attaining the anterior margin ; sides of thorax 

 concolorous, with a more or less distinct bi'ownish line from 

 the base of the wing to below the shoulder. Scutellum yellowish, 

 more or less dusted with grey ; metanotum dusted with grey or 

 bluish ci'ey. Abdomen dark brown, with pale yellow pubescence, 

 posterior borders of segments narrowly yellowish, often the Mhole 

 abdomen blackish, but in most specimens the basal segment quite 

 pale. Belly yellowish. Legs yellow, posterior femora and tibiae 

 narrowly black at tips, hind femora otten with a broad brownish 

 more or less distinct band in the middle ; tarsi blackish towards 

 tips. Winys nearly clear ; stigma dark brown (or black in life), 

 enclosed oy the turued-up tip of the 2nd longitudinal vein ; tlie 

 apical (more correctly, subapical) spot encloses tlie 3rd vein just 

 before its tip, and above this vein the spot reaches the wing- 

 border, but below the vein the spot ends abruptly a little way 

 before the wing-border.f The wing is dark brown, narrowly 



* For full references to this frequently deseribed species, see Katalog. Dipt. 

 i, p. 305. 



t In some specimens the spot is roughly triangular, as in ts^icaX f a nestralis, 

 which serves to prove that the present forui is more likely to "be a variety only 

 tlian a distinct species. 



