new or little-known Tipulidee. 313 
with darker; male hypopygium with the apex of each 
pleurite produced into a short blade; inner pleural ap- 
pendage feebly bifid at apex. . 
Male.—Length 8°6-9 mm. ; wing 8°5-9°4 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antenne black; 16-seg- 
mented, the formula being 2+2+9+43; pectination of the 
third flagellar segment inserted at a slightly different plane 
from that of the basal two and the distal flagellar segments; 
flagellar pectinations of moderate length. Head black, 
sparsely brownish-grey pruinose anteriorly. 
Mesonotal prescutum deep reddish brown with three in- 
distinct darker brown stripes, the surface subshiny though 
covered with a sparse microscopic pubescence; scutum brown, 
the cephalic margin of the lobes blackened; seutellum and 
postnotum obscure yellowish brown,somewhat shiny. Pleura 
with a very heavy silvery-white microscopic pubescence that 
appears like a bloom; propleura dark brown, sending a 
narrow longitudinal stripe caudad on to the mesepisternum ; 
mesosternum dark; a narrow, longitudinal, brown line on 
sides of mesosternum immediately dorsad of mid-coxz. 
Halteres pale yellow. Legs with the coxe concolorous with 
the pleura; trochanters brownish yellow; femora dark brown, 
the bases more reddish, more extensive on the middle and 
posterior femora; tibize and tarsi black, the posterior tibize 
paler with black tips. Wings subhyaline, the base and cells 
C and Sc brownish yellow; a very heavy dark brown pattern 
covers approximately one-half the wing-surface, including 
the following general areas: alarge blotch at origin of Rs 
not attaining vein /; stigmal blotch sending a broad seam 
along the cord, interrupted only in the centre of cell lst A/,; 
wing-apex broadly darkened leaving pale areas only in the 
mid-third of cell R., the second quarter of 3, and indistinct 
pale blotches in the centres of cells R;, 2nd M,, and M3, 
the two latter more extensive; cell M is largely suffused 
because of the unusually broad dark seams along veins 
M, Cu, and Cu,; a large dusky suffusion before mid-length of 
cell Cu and near the outer end of cell lst A; other veins more 
or less seamed with dusky; veins dark. Venation: cell 2nd 
R, very small, 7 being at tip of R, and about three times its 
length from the tip of R.; petiole of cell J/, about three 
times m; basal deflection of Cu, near two-thirds the length 
of the lower face of cell lst M,. The right wing of the type. 
shows a remarkable malformation of the veins, Ay,; bending 
caudad and fusing with the third section of M,,, (petiole of 
cell M,) for almost the entire length of the latter, 
Abdominal tergites dark brown, the intermediate segments 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 9. Vol. ix. 21 
