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the middle one reaching the anterior margin and being just 

 perceptibly divided in front, the outer ones short, not reaching 

 the shoulders. Dorsum behind suture, scutellum and rnetauotum 

 brownish grey. Sides of thorax rather bright yellowish, the 

 colour extending round the front below the shoulders ; a thin 

 dark brown line on each side, below the yellow portion, separating 

 it from the lower part, which is almost livid in the type but 

 unicolorous yellow in the second specimen. Abdomen chestnut- 

 brown. Underside light yellowish grey on basal half. Genitalia of 

 male brownisE yellow, pubescent, complex ; a small dorsal 

 elongate curved plate, bilobed on the posterior half; a pair of 

 large claspers, two-jointed, the 2nd joint rather shorter, scoop- 

 shaped ; an internal pair of organs, sub-globular, with narrow 

 stems ; a ventral curved plate with a small semicircular piece cut 

 away in the centre, closely pubescent around the emargination 

 with golden yellow hairs. Legs brownish yellow, coxae livid, with 

 a few whitish hairs, tips of femora with a rather narrow black 

 ring. Wings moderately dark grey, costal cell brownish yellow 

 (in one specimen with a number of fine but distinct upright lines) : 

 stigma hardly distinct from the colour of the costal cell ; a small, 

 nearly hyaline spot just above the discal cell, of which the distal 

 side is nearly double the length of the proximal ; posterior cross- 

 vein narrowly but distinctly suffused near its junction with the 5th 

 vein. Petiole of 2nd posterior cell very short. Halteres blackish. 



Length 31 millim. from tip of nose to tip of genitalia. 



Described from several specimens of each sex. Type c? from 

 Bhim Tal, 4500 ft., Kumaon district, 19-22. ix. 06 (Annandale) ; 

 type $ from Mazbat, Mangaldai district, Assam, 11-15. x. 10 

 (Kemp). Other specimens in the Indian Museum from Dhikala, 

 Garhwal district, base of Western Himalayas, 10. iii.10; Mau- 

 galdai, North Assam, x. 1910 (Kemp) ; Kurseong, 23. vi. 10 

 {Annandale). Two specimens from Sikkim are in the Vienna 

 Museum, whilst I am almost sure that I have seen it at Mussoori. 



Types c? and $ in the Indian Museum. 



205. Tipula fumipennis, Brun. (PI. V, fig. 0.) 



Tipulafumipennis, Brunetti, Rec. Tnd. Mus. vi, p. 250 (1911). 



5 . Head mainly dark brown, a little yellow around the base of 

 the proboscis ; dark grey on back of head, except a broad median 

 brown part extending over the frons to the antennae, which latter 

 are yellowish brown ; scape paler. Palpi dark brown. Thorax : 

 dor sum dark brown, almost bare, and with the usual three black 

 stripes ; the middle one divided down its centre by a narrow pale 

 line ; the outer spots normal ; behind the suture, a small yellowish 

 spot on the base of each post-sutural elevation, the dorsum ot 

 which is darker brown ; the sides of the thorax immediately below 

 the dorsum are occupied by a distinct though rather narrow pale 

 yellowish stripe ; below this the pleurae are lighter, shining brown, 

 practically bare. Prothorax rather prominently divided from the 



