252 DIPTERA NEMATOCERA. 



Prothorax entirely orange. A small orange patch on the front 

 of the praescutum, remainder of the mesonotnm wholly shin- 

 ing black, with metallic bluish reflections. Pleurae mostly 

 shining dark brown, but the lower part of the sternopleura and 

 a narrow stripe reaching up from this to the base of the wing 

 yellow. Abdomen with tergite 1 dull black, with a narrow 

 shining black basal band ; tergite 2 shining blue-black on the 

 basal half, dull black on the apical half ; 3—6 entirely dull 

 black; 7 dark basally, black apically ; 8 entirely orange. Ster- 

 nite 1 black; 2 orange basally, black apically; 3-4 orange; 

 6-6 dark brown; 7 dark basally, orange apically; 8 orange. 

 Hypopygium black; claspers small, two pairs somewhat of the 

 Dicranomyia type, but the lower one very small ; paramere 

 long and slender. Legs with the coxae and trochanters orange, 

 the front femora with the basal half yellow, apically half black ; 

 mid and hind femora yellow with black tips ; tibiae and tarsi 

 black, but the mid and hind tibiae with a narrow ring at the 

 base. Claws long, with one long and sharp basal tooth. 

 Wings strongly infuscated, but with a hyaline transverse band 

 just before the cord ; base of cell R also hyaline ; veins black. 

 So reaching to just beyond middle of Rs ; Sc^ near its tips ; Rs 

 rather long, curved at base; Cii^n a little beyond base of the 

 short discal cell. Halteres with black stem and white knob. 



Length of body 5 mm. ; wing 5—5 mm. 



Mt. Dulit, 3000 feet— 1 cf- 



A remarkably distinct and beautiful little species, especially 

 noteworthy for its reduced mouthparts, which are less de- 

 veloped than in any other Tipulid known to the writer, 

 although reduction as well as eloncfatlon is not unknown in this 

 tribe of flies (cf. Dicranomyia ventraJis Schura.). 



LiMNOBTA MJOBEEGI sp. n. 



cf . Head black. Eyes in actual contact on the front for a 

 long distance. Antennae brown, flagellum liw'hter. all but the 

 first few segments elongate oval, verticils rather short. Palpi 

 and proboscis brov;nish. Thorax very strongly humped. 

 Ground colour ochreous. Praescutum with a large round 

 brown patch in the middle posteriorly, from v.'hich there extend 

 forwards to the front margin two narrow light brown lines ; 

 dark brown patches behind the foveae. Scutum with a pair of 

 large blackish patches. Scutellum dark brown, with an och- 

 reous median line. Postnotum dark brown, sides broadly 



