270 Mr. W. F. Kirby's notes on the 



[I have a series of specimens. The hroum coxa are 

 characteristic. At the same time a complete agreement 

 is not to be expected, as the colouring of the body is 

 variable. — O.-S.] 



TIPULID^. 



Cloniophora Wakejieldii, Westw. 



Gymnoplistia Wakejieldii, Westw., Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond., 1881, p. 372, PI. XVIII., fig. 6. 



Tipula senex, White & Butl. 



Tipula senex, White & Butl., Voy. Erebus and Terror, 



Ins., p. 27, pi. vii., fig. 15 (1875). 

 Tipida Novarce, Schin. 



[Baron Osten-Sacken regards this identification as 

 probable, but notes that Schiner's statement that the 

 second spot is placed " close to the discoidal cell " is 

 apparently an error for " close to the first discoidal cell." 

 He likewise remarks on some apparent discrepancies in 

 Schiner's description, such as his not mentioning the 

 brownish longitudinal stripe on the abdomen ; his 

 calling the white lateral spots triangular, &c. I may 

 add that we have nine specimens in the Museum, and 

 that it appears to be a variable species, some of the 

 specimens, which I cannot regard as specifically distinct, 

 agreeing very fairly with Schiner's description.] 



Tipula Dux. 

 Tipula Dux, White MS. 

 Long. corp. 6 lin. ; exp. al. 17 lin. 



Orange ; head orange ; basal joint of antennae (the rest broken 

 off), palpi, and most of the upper surface of the muzzle (which is 

 moderately broad, obtuse, and set with short stiff bristles), blackish ; 

 base of palpi brown, a long black streak running forwards to a 

 double point from the middle of the vertex. Thorax orange ; front 

 of prothorax and first pleural suture black ; a wide black stripe on 

 the back of the mesothorax, ceasing before the lateral suture, and 

 with a brown extension on each side in front ; and two wide black 

 stripes on each side, starting at about one-fourth of the length of 

 the mesothorax, and curving towards each other, but not meeting, 

 in front of the scutellum, which is wholly orange. Abdopiejn 



