302 TIPULID.E. 



201. Tipula venusta, Walk. (PI. V, fig. 5.)* 



Tipula venusta, Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mus. i, p. 64 (1848). 



" Rufo-fusca, subtus pallidior, thoracis dorso nigro univittato 

 fulvoque bivittato, abdoinine fulvo, disco rufo-fusco, antennis 

 flavis nigro cinctis, pedibus nigris, tibiis albo cinctis, tarsis albis 

 basi nigris, alis limpidissimis fnsco subfasciatis. 



" Head reddish brown ; mouth yellow : palpi brown towards the 

 tip; feelers yellow, beset with short black hairs, not more than 

 half the length of the chest ; base of each joint black ; chest 

 tawny ; reddish brown on the disk, and having there a black 

 stripe in the middle, and a tawny stripe on each side ; the two 

 latter communicate in front with the tawny colour of the rest of 

 the chest ; abdomen bright tawny, reddish brown on the back, 

 excepting the base of each segment, which is tawny ; legs black, 

 very long ; a broad white band across each shank ; feet white, 

 excepting the first joint; wings colourless, very transparent, 

 having a large irregular brown spot near the tip, where some of 

 the veins are also clouded ; there is a small brown brand at the 

 end of the first longitudinal vein, and beneath it a narrow 

 interrupted brown line extends across the wing, and clouds the 

 sides of some of the short connecting veins ; veins very dark 

 brown ; poisers brown, tawny at the base. 



" Length of the body 14 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



" Silhet. From the Eev. J. Stainforth's collection." ( Walker.) 



Type. Described from the British Museum collection, but no 

 longer to be found there. 



There are evidently several species in the East which are 

 closely allied to this and to Wiedemann's pedata described from 

 Java. None of the specimens seen by me could be actually 

 determined as venusta. 



202. Tipula gracillima, sp. nov. 



$ . Head : frons and vertex pale yellowish, with a brown 

 median streak, the frons becoming almost whitish over the 

 antennae. Proboscis and palpi yellowish white, tip of proboscis 

 greenish. Antennal scape pale yellowish ; flagellar joints cylin- 

 drical, black, well separated, at least those of the basal half ; the 

 verticillate hairs very short. Back of head brownish above, pale 

 yellowish \vhite below. Thorax : dorsum brownish yellow ; a 

 median narrow reddish brown stripe, which is not very pro- 

 nounced, and an indistinct shorter stripe on each side of it, some 

 distance behind the shoulders. The brownish colour of the 

 dorsum is extended forward to the anterior margin of the thorax 

 and along the short neck. Scutellum and metanotum brownish 

 yellow. Sides of thorax pale yellowish white, with silvery white 

 reflections, if viewed from certain directions. Abdomen : basal 



* A figure of a wing attributed to this insect was included in the Plate, as 

 I believed I had found the species in the Indian Museum collection. Later 

 studies lead me to think that I have not met with the true T. venusta, but the 

 figure is allowed to remain as typical of this group of species. 



