292 TlPULIDjE. 



immediately beyond the base. Legs microscopically pubescent. 

 Wings rather deep brown or blackish brown. Two large, very 

 conspicuous oval orange-yellow spots, beginning on the costa and 

 extending nearly to the hind margin, the distal side of the first 

 spot being just beyond the middle of the wing ; the second spot 

 begins a little before the proximal side of the discal cell and 

 encloses the posterior cross-vein, its distal costal limit being at 

 the tip of the 1st longitudinal vein ; between these two large 

 spots a smaller one, round or oval, near but not touching the costa, 

 enclosing the base of the 2nd longitudinal vein. The base of the 

 wing is also orange-yellow, in some cases the colour wholly united 

 with the nearer large spot, but always joined to it on the costa. 

 In one example the small round spot is also united to the proximal 

 one of the large spots. In some specimens the small spot is 

 much reduced, possibly occasionally absent. Halteres orange. 



Length rf 10-12, $ 15 millim. 



Eedescribed from several specimens of both sexes in the 

 Indian Museum and my own collection from Dehra Dun (foot of 

 Mussoori Hills) ; Kanara, Bombay, viii. 07 ; Bangalore, 3000 ft., 

 11-15. x. 10 (Annandale) ; Trivandrurn, Travancore State, iv. 89 ; 

 Calcutta, 13. vii. 07. Also in the Vienna Museum and my own col- 

 lection from Ceylon. Apparently commonly distributed throughout 

 India, and probably also the East generally. Van der Wulp 

 records it. from Bombay, Sind, and Ceylon. 



Type. The location is uncertain, unless it is in the old Fabrician 

 collection. It is curious that although described in a few words 

 only, over a hundred years ago, the species is so well marked that 

 there does not exist a single synonym to it. 



" Van der Wulp quotes ' pi. ii. 1 ' as a figure of this species in 

 Wiedemann, but I find no such figure. In the Pusa collection 

 are a male and female taken in cop. in the Shevaroys, 4000 ft.. 

 Madras Presidency, 26. viii. 07, on coffee bushes. In the Indian 

 Museum are two specimens that represent well-marked varieties 

 of this species, to one of which a name is given. The first speci- 

 men is from Katihar, Purnea District, N. Bengal, and is a female 

 in good condition taken by Mr. Paiva, 23. iii. 09. It differs from 

 the typical form by all the cells on the posterior half of the wing 

 being pale grey in their centres : one or two centres being almost 

 entirely clear. The 3rd, 4th, and 5th abdominal segments have 

 a subquadrate black spot on the dorsum of each. 



" The second specimen I term var. trilineata, from the presence 

 of the usual three tipuliform black thoracic stripes, the median 

 one extending over the anterior mai'giu on each side as far as the 

 front coxae. The outer stripes are replaced behind rhe suture by 

 a large spot on each side. There is a blackish mark on the pleura 

 below the wing, and the hinder side of the metanotum is shining 

 black. The wings have the clear spaces as in the preceding 

 variety, though not quite so obvious, and the last two or three 

 abdominal segments are blackish, some distinct darkening of the pre- 

 ceding segments being noticeable. The yellow colour of the legs is 



