276 DIPTERA NEMATOCERA. 



TiPULA (TiPULODiNA) ALBiPRiVATA sp .11. (Plate 10, fig. 45.) 



cT. Head blackish, ochreous above the antennae, with 

 very slight frontal tubercle. Proboscis rather short, brownish, 

 nasus distinct. Antennae longer than the head and thorax, 

 scape orange, flagellum black, except the small thirteenth seg- 

 ment, which is dull oclireoiis. Palpi dark brown, terminal 

 segment mostly ochreous. Thorax ochreous, darker dorsally, 

 pronotum and a median line on the praescutum blackish. 

 Ahdo7nen ochreous, the tergites with black apical triangles, 

 second tergite also blackish before the middle. Hypopygium 

 as figured. Legs with the coxae and trochanters ochreous, 

 femora brownish ochreous, with black tips, tibiae and tarsi 

 black. Wings with nearly hyaline ground colour, stigma 

 black ; a broad but indistinct brownish shade across the middle 

 of the basal cells ; a rather large blackish cloud over r — m, 

 another over the base of Guj^ ; tip of wing broadly brownish, 

 the colour reaching almost back to the stigma, but scarcely 

 noticeable below ^4 + 5 . Rs about as long as -R2 + 3 ^^^ about 

 twice R2', -R4 + 5 curved down and ending distinctly below the 

 tip of the wing; cell Ax narrow, but not extremely so. 

 Halteres black, tip of the knob pale. 



Length of body 17 mm. ; wing 18 mm. ; antennae 7 mm. 



Mt. Dulit, 3000 feet— 1 cf . 



Although there are no white rings on the legs, the venation 

 and general appearance suggest a relationship with the 

 Tipulodina gToup. 



TiPULA XANTHOMELAENA sp. n. 



9 . Head ochreous, with a dark brown transverse band on 

 the vertex connecting the eyes. Rostrum ochreous, shorter 

 than the head, nasus long. Antennae scarcely as long as the 

 thorax ; scape brownish ochreous ; flagellum black, base of 

 first segment ochreous, verticils short, confined to the dorsal 

 side of the segments. Palpi brownish ochreous, last segment 

 lighter. Thorax ochreous, wdth a dark brown but not sharply 

 defined median praescutal stripe, and pair of short, rather in- 

 distinct brownish lateral stripes. Abdomen rather bright 

 yellow, tergites 2 — 8 each with a conspicuous black apical band 

 which is slightly widened in the middle; sternites 2, 3 and 4 

 each with dark brown basal and apical bands, 5—7 all yellow. 

 Ovipositor with the base ochreous, valves dark brown, mode- 

 rately long and straight. Legs with the coxae and femora 



