TIPULA. 315 



base to the posterior cross-vein ; a similar streak towards the tip, 

 in the upper part of the 2nd basal cell ; a third streak along the 

 lower side of the discal cell, with fairly distinct edges, and reaching 

 nearly to the wing-margin ; a narrow streak along the apical half 

 of the 3rd vein ; other smaller streaks below the stigma, on the 

 costa beyond the stigma, and along the 1st longitudinal vein just 

 below the costal cell. Tips of all the veins with a small blackish 

 spot, whilst there is a pale grey spot along the middle of the 

 margin of the axillary cell between the 6th and 7th veins ; the 

 wing behind the 7th vein wholly grey ; the veins, generally brown, 

 are tinged here and there with yellowish. Halteres vellow, clubs 

 black. 



Length (entire) 28 millim. 



Described from one male, in perfect condition, taken by Mr. A. 

 D. Imrns at Badrinath, 10,200 ft., Gahrwal district, 21. v. 10. 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



An exceptionally beautiful species of great size, and apparently 

 quite distinct from any species described from the East. 



215. Tipula reposita, Walk. 



Tipula reposita, Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mus. i, p. 67 (1848). 



" Pulva, abdominis vittis duo apiceque fuscis, antennis fulvis 

 nigro cinctis; pedibus rufo-fuscis, fernoribus fulvis, alis fulvis 

 maculis nonuullis limpidis. 



" Allied to T. nubeculosa. Body tawny, a black ring round each 

 joint of the feelers, which are not longer than the chest ; a brown 

 stripe along each side of the abdomen, whose tip is also brown ; 

 legs reddish browu ; thighs tawny with brown tips ; wings tawny ; 

 abdomen with five or six colourless spots, various in size and in 

 shape and having also a brown spot near the tip of the foreborder ; 

 veins brown ; some of the longest veins slightly clouded. Length 

 of the body 8-10 lines, of the wings 16-18 lines. Nepaul." 

 (Walker.) 



Types, 3 and $ , in the British Museum ; the male is in suffi- 

 ciently good condition to be useful, but the female is reduced 

 almost to a fragment. 



I have seen no specimen which can possibly be ascribed to this 

 species. 



216. Tipula himalayensis, Brun. (PI. V, fig. 11 ; PL VI, figs. 16 



& 17.) 



Tipula himalayensis, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. vi, p. 252 (1911). 



c? $ . Head yellowish or yellowish grey, occasionally with a 

 slight greenish cinereous tinge ; a narrow fuscous stripe from 

 behind the head, passing over the vertex, descending to just 

 above the antennae, where it forms an elongated spot. Antennal 

 scape yellow; flagellum iiormally dark brownish black, with one 

 or two hairs on each side at the base of each joint ; each joint 



