EDWARDS— DIPTER A, TIPULID^ 203 



I'ound the tip of the wing rather long and narrow, submarginal ahnost twice as long as 

 prfefurca. Halteres fuscous, base of stem ochreous. Genitalia rather large, ochreous 

 with black hooks. 



Length of body 6 mm. 

 ,, wing 6 '5 mm. 



A similar but distinct species, of which there are specimens in the British Museum, 

 occurs in Eastern India. 



Loc. Seychelles. Felicite, Dec. 1908, 1 $, 1 $. Mahe : Mare aux Cochons, 

 1500 ft., 1 $. 



Group Rhamphidiini. 

 Genus Elephantomyia Osten-Sacken, Proc. Acad. Philad., 1859, p. 220. 



11. Elephantomyia insularis, sp. n. $. 



Ochracea, segmentis abdominis fusco-marginatis ; alis maculatis, stigraate alarum 

 infuscato. 



$. Head including antennae and rostrum dark fuscous; eyes black. Rostrum as 

 long as whole body, the palps inserted very close to its tip. Collar nearly as long as 

 head. Thorax dark brownish ochreous, with very indistinct slightly darker markings ; 

 pleurae lighter ochreous. Legs except coxte dark brown ; femora very slightly thicker 

 and darker at apex. Wings faintly brownish, spotted with brown at the base of the 

 praefurca and on the cross-veins ; stigma opaque, brown. Mediastinal vein entering costa 

 just before the level of the great cross- vein ; subcostal cross- vein almost at its tip ; 

 no marginal cross-vein ; tlie three veins arising from the discal cell equidistant at base. 

 Abdomen ochreous, the segments rather broadly fuscous-margined. 



Length of body 8 mm. 

 ,, wing 9 mm. 



,, rostrum 8 nun. 



,, legs 25 nun. 



Loc. Seychelles. Mahe: Foret Noire, X.— XL 1908, 1 ?. 



Genus Ceratocheilus Wesche, Jour. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., xxx. 358 (1910). 

 Neostyiingomyia Alexander, Can. Ent., xliv. 85 (1912). 



12. Ceratocheilus seychellarum, sp. n. 



Cinereo-fuscum, thorace 3-vittato ; venulis transversis infuscatis. 



$^. Head: antennae blackish; occiput whitish; eyes smaller in % Rostrum as long 

 as abdomen. Neck Ipng, black. Third joint of antennae not much smaller than second. 

 Thorax projecting over the neck, greyish, with a median and two latei'al brown stripes, 

 the laterals more posterior ; pleurae dark brown, edges of nota pale. Legs uniformly 

 dark ; front femora markedly thickened at apex, middle and posterior Jeiuuia also 

 thickened but to a less extent. Wings hyaline, base of second longitudinal vein, small 



