new T'lpnVidse from the Malay Peninsula. 351 



Length of body about 7 mm.; wing 12 mm. 



Kedah : Kedah Peak, 3200 ft. {Dr. A. T. Stanton), 1 ? . 



In coloration M. nitidirostris must strongly reseral)le 

 Tipula sinabangensis, de Meij., recently described from 

 Simalur, but presumably de Meijere's species has the 

 venation of a Tipula, though he does not describe tlie wing 

 in detail. 



Group T I p u L I N I . 



Tipula klossi, sp. n. 



? . Head dark brown, with a blackish median line ; front 

 occupying more than a quarter of the width of the head, 

 rather prominent above the antennae. Proboscis brownish, 

 shorter than the head ; nasus extremely shoi't, a mere 

 rounded prominence ; palpi dark brown. Antennce 13- 

 jointed, the 13th joint less than half as long as the 12th. 

 Scape light brownish. First flagellar joint cylindrical, light 

 brownish, with some short black hairs in the middle on the 

 underside, longer than the first scapal joint ; intermediate 

 flagellar joints light brown with a blackish base which is 

 slightly enlarged on the upper side ; last two or three joints 

 entirely dark brown ; verticillate hairs much longer on the 

 upper side of the joints than on the lower. Thorax dull, 

 brown, with four darker brown stripes, the lateral pair 

 shortened in front and extending back on to the scutum. 

 Postuotum more greyish in the middle. Abdomen rather 

 light brownish, the segments with dark brown bands apically. 

 Legs blackish, the femora lighter towards the base. Wings 

 very slightly infuscated, the costal cell rather more so ; 

 stigma dark brown ; a narrow dark brown cloud over Cuja ; 

 a small whitish spot on each side of the stigma, and another 

 obliquely across cell 1st Mg. Pubescence on the veins in 

 the apical part of the wing very noticeable. Venation : 

 Rs extremely short, much shorter than the stigma, and 

 equal in length to the first section of Mi_,_2. Stalk of cell 

 Ml nearly one-third as long as the cell. Cuj meeting M 

 exactly at the fork and fused with Mg for about half the 

 length of the cell 1st JNIg. Cross-vein connecting Mj^^ with 

 M3 extremely short, the cell 1st M2 being therefore almost 

 diamond-shaped. Mj, M3, and the descending portion of 

 Cui parallel and rather close together. Anal angle of wino- 

 well-marked, the cell Ax, therefore, broadest in the middle. 

 Halteres light brownish, the club somewhat darker. 

 Length of body 13 mm.; wing 11 mm. 



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