TIPULA.. 323 



222. Tipula elegans, Brun. 



Tipula elegans, Erunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. vi, p. 255 (1911). 



$ . Head yellowish grey, more yellow at the back, from which 

 a narrow, not very distinct, fuscous stripe runs over the vertex, 

 but terminates before reaching the base of the antennae. Nasus 

 rather produced, pale yellow, with a pinkish tinge, and some 

 yellow hairs at tip, pointing forwards. Frons one-fourth the 

 width of the head ; eyes black ; palpi dark brown, pubescent. 

 Antennae : scape yellow ; flagellum dark brown, the base of each 

 joint narrowly black-ringed, arid with one or two hairs on each 

 side, the joiuts having a microscopic pale pubescence which gives 

 a grey sheen when seen in certain directions. Proboscis dark 

 brown, tip black. Thorax : dorsum brownish grey, with the three 

 usual stripes shortened and confluent, thus forming a central spot 

 of dark blackish brown, which in certain lights has a reddish 

 tinge ; two almost contiguous broad grey stripes (each darkened 

 -on its inner side) proceeding from the front of the dorsal spot to 

 the anterior border of the thorax. Two dark reddish brown spots 

 on each side behind the suture, the upper one circular, the hinder 

 one oval : the hinder half of this latter one, seen from behind, 

 -bears a greyish sheen. A small yellowish cavity just below the 

 shoulders. Prothorax more or less ash-grey, with slightly darker 

 markings and a small brown streak on its upper part. Scutellmn 

 and metanotum very pale brown ; posterior half of latter with 

 ash-grey reflections, seen from behind, with a narrow, dark median 

 line, as has also the scutellum ; the scaly ridge in front of the base 

 of the wings yellow ; sides of thorax wholly pale greenish grey, 

 with a whitish grey sheen in certain lights ; a similar sheen on 

 the elongated metapleura. Abdomen tawny yellow, with a median 

 dark brown shining stripe, and a narrow side stripe, below which 

 the extreme edges of the 2nd to the 7th segments are distinctly 

 whitish on the posterior part. Belly pale yellow, with an in- 

 distinct median dark line. Ovipositor 3 mm. long; the first part 

 shining black, cylindrical, with a whitish tip ; the second con- 

 sisting of two elongated red-brown sheaths ; a reddish yellow 

 ventral plate and an intermediate grey part apparently completes 

 the genital apparatus. Legs almost exactly as in T. himalayensis, 

 but more brown than black ; the tarsi not much longer than the 

 tibiae. Wings generally resembling those of both T. himalayensis 

 and robusla in appearance. Costal cell yellow, with only a single 

 small clear spot near the tip ; a wide pale brown band begins on 

 the costa near the base, but only reaches the fifth longitudinal 

 vein, and there is an irregular row of nearly clear spots from the 

 base of the 1st basal cell hindwards to posterior margin of wing, 

 one spot in each cell. The darker parts of the wing are slightly 

 darker than in T. robusta, and the clear spots have a tendency to 

 be still clearer, larger, and possibly more numerous. Halteres 

 black, apical part of club pale. 

 Length (entire) 20 millim. 



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