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orange, with a broad black stripe on the back widened at the 

 extremity of each segment, a black stripe on each side, and a 

 central one (paler towards the base of the abdomen) beneath ; legs 

 black; front femora yellowish beneath. Wings hyaline, naked, 

 iridescent, with short longitudinal folds along the outer half of the 

 upper edge of the front basal cell, along the lower edge of the hind 

 basal cell, and along the lower edge of the axillary cell ; nervures 

 brown ; costal cells and stigma yellowish brown ; the subcostal 

 cell, as far as the stigma and the cubital cell, clear ; a triangular 

 dusky spot extending to the transverse nervure ; halteres yellow, 

 with the clubs black. 



Tipula Clara. 



Tipula Clara, White MS. 



Head and thorax orange-yellow ; antennae, except the long 

 basal joint, palpi, tip of muzzle, and a spot between the eyes, 

 dusky ; palpi set with short bristles. Abdomen black, with a stripe 

 on each side, the incisions and anus yellow ; coxae yellow ; legs 

 brown ; under surface shading into yellowish. Wings nearly as in 

 T. Dux, but without longitudinal folds ; the apex is clouded, and 

 the triangular spot on the transverse nervure is smaller and more 

 sharply defined ; halteres yellow, with black tips. 



Tipula ohscuripennis. 

 Tipula ohscuripennis, White MS. 

 Exp. al. 1 in. ; long. corp. 6 lin. 



Eeddish brown above, with a greyish bloom beneath. Head 

 reddish brown, with a white ring round the black eyes. Thorax 

 greyish, with two contiguous reddish brown stripes occupying the 

 middle above ; they are divided by a narrow pale line, and are 

 sUghtly narrower behind than before ; on each side is a darker 

 oval spot, which is continued on the metathorax. This and the 

 scutellum are pale and shining, the latter edged with dusky behind. 

 Abdomen reddish brown above, with an obsolete dark spot in the 

 middle of each segment; 2nd segment almost entirely dusky. 

 Legs tawny, with the knees and tarsi blackish. Wings hyaline, 

 with the costal cell and the rather large oblong stigma pale yellow ; 

 halteres blackish, a transparent space in the costal cell, and the 

 lower part of the hinder cell with small perpendicular folds. 



