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yellowish, with short black hairs towards the margin of the 

 dorsura ; three very distinct stripes, the middle one attaining the 

 anterior margin, with a superimposed black stripe which narrows 

 to a point in front ; the two side stripes brown, almost touching 

 the median one a little behind the anterior margin. These stripes 

 continue uninterruptedly across the sides of the upper surfaces of 

 the scutellum and metanotum, both of which latter are otherwise 

 greenish yellow, with a narrow brown stripe on the former ; both 

 being shortly pubescent, except down the centre. Sides of thorax 

 yellow. Abdomen yellowish, with a little pale pubescence; 1st 

 segment with a broad, ill-defined, median fuscous stripe ; dorsum 

 of last three segments brown ; a narrow black stripe on each side 

 of the abdomen, and the posterior margins of the segments with a 

 tendency to paleness. Genitalia large and conspicuous ; a convex, 

 dark brown, bifid, dorsal plate ; a V-shaped ventral plate, from 

 each side of which projects a long, pale yellow, fleshy palp-like 

 tentacle, with long bristles ; the 1st joint of the claspers normal, 

 the 2nd ending conically in a thick black point ; the side plates 

 small and narrow. In a specimen prepared for the microscope, 

 the very long thin curled penis is easily visible, issuing from the 

 large egg-shaped central vesicle. In the female the abdomen is 

 rather dark brown, with an ill-defined blackish dorsal stripe, the 

 abdomen less yellowish at the base, where the colour is chiefly 

 confined to the sides. Legs : cox.se yellow ; femora brownish 

 yellow, tips black ; knees yellowish white ; tibiae and tarsi 

 dark brown. Wings very pale grey, with clearer spaces here 

 and there, namely : towards the distal end of the 2nd basal cell, 

 nearly the whole of the 6th posterior cell, and just above the tip 

 of the 7th vein. Costal cell yellowish, stigma brownish, well 

 defined ; veins brown. Halteres yellow. 



Length 9-10 millim., excluding the ovipositor (1 millim.). 



Described from four males and one female in the Indian Museum, 

 all taken by me at Darjiling, 25-29. v. 10 and a male also taken by 

 me at the same place, 16-20.X.05, in my own collection. 



Types <S and $ in the Indian Museum. 



Two males in the Indian Museum from Chitral, 9500 ft., 

 Hindu Khush Mountains, 10. x. 10 (Maj. F. Wall), appear to be 

 this species, though they show small differences which would 

 probably come within a reasonable specific variation. 



229. Tipula walkeri, nom. nov. 



Tipulafulvipennis, Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mus. i, p. 67 (1850). 



" Fulva, thorace f nsco trivittato, abdomine fusco fasciato, 

 antennis fuscis, alis fulvis, stigmate fusco. 



" Allied to T. ochracea. Body tawny, eyes black, feelers brown, 

 tawny at the base, not longer than the chest ; every joint furnished 

 with a hair on each side ; chest with a darker stripe on each side 

 and a narrower brown stripe in the middle ; back of the abdomen 

 having a brown stripe, which is obsolete at the base and dilated 



