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218. Tipula robusta, B)-un. 



Tipula robusta, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. vi, p. 254 (1911). 



3 . Head dark grey ; frons one-fifth the width of the head. 

 Antennae brownish yellow, base of joints very narrowly black. 

 Proboscis and palpi dark brown, pubescent. Thorax : dorsuin 

 practically all blackish brown, with the exception of the suture, 

 hind margins of the post-sutural callosities and a broad lateral and 

 hind marginal- border to the metanotum, all of which parts are 

 reddish yellow. Metanotum with some short golden yellow hairs 

 towards its sides, its dorsum dark grey ; the median dorsal thoracic 

 stripe attains the anterior margin and is slightly darkened on its 

 edges. The prothorax is very distinct, brown, somewhat divided 

 by a depression from the mesothorax ; neck yellow. Sides of 

 thorax light orange-yellow. Abdomen brown, 1st segment reddish 

 yellow, 2nd reddish yellow on upperside, last segments blackish. 

 Belly lighter brown, yellowish at base, tip blackish. Genital 

 organs mainly dark brown, large and complex, but considerably 

 concealed between the two large side-plates, apparently consisting 

 of a small upper dark brown pubescent plate ; a pair of pale 

 yellow, flat, pointed organs ; the usual pair of large claspers, each 

 of which bears a brush-like appendage ; and there are appa- 

 rently intermediate organs also. Leys : coxae yellow, with a few 

 pale gold hairs ; femora light brownish yellow, tips rather broadly 

 blackish ; tibiae brownish yellow with blackish tips ; tarsi yellow- 

 ish brown, very long, hind pair nearly twice as long as the tibiae. 

 Wings pale yellowish grey, with darker brownish yellow parts, 

 such as the costal cell, the major part of the 1st basal cell, a large 

 area near the distal part of the 2nd basal cell, a squarish spot in the 

 middle of the 6th posterior cell, the whole of the two submarginal 

 cells, and the base of the 1st posterior cell; stigma yellowish 

 brown, well defined ; veins dark brown, 5th with a tendency to 

 a narrow suffusion. Halteres brownish yellow. 



Length (entire) 20 millim. 



Described from one male in my collection from Mussoori, taken 

 by me, 22. vi. 05. 



219. Tipula marmoratipennis, sp. nov. (PI. V, fig. 13.) 



$ . Head yellowish ; tip and underside of proboscis brown ; 

 palpi brownish yellow ; antennal scape yellow, flagellum blackish 

 brown ; vertex with a narrow brown median line. Thorax mode- 

 rately dark grey, with a median pair of dark greenish grey closely 

 approximated stripes, an elongate spot on each side and a smaller 

 round spot on the shoulder ah 1 these marks bordered narrowly 

 with dark brown ; a pair of large oval greenish grey post-sutural 

 spots and a narrow dark brown median line from a little behind 

 the suture passing unbroken over the scutelluru and metanotum. 

 Scutellum yellowish grey, metanotum greenish grey. Sides of 



