332 TIPULID^E. 



Described from a male in the Pusa collection from Darjiling, 

 3-9. vi. 09 (Howlett), and two females from Bhowali, Kuinaon, 

 9700 ft., vii. 1909 (type) and 10. vii. 10 (A. D. Imms). 



Type c? in the Pusa collection ; type $ in the Indian 

 Museum. 



A specimen (subsequently broken) was seen by me from 

 Kurseong, Darjiling, 21-29. v. 06 (Dr. Annandale), and the Vienna 

 Museum possesses a female from Sumatra which may be this 

 species or a closely allied undescribed one. The markings on the 

 thorax are less distinctly outlined, and the whole insect is paler, 

 with clearer wings. 



233. Tipula vicaria, Walk. 



Tipula vicaria, Walker, Ins. Saund., Dipt, v, p. 444 (1856). 



<3 . " Pallide cervina, cinereo tomentosa : antennae setaceoe, 

 subverticillato pilosae, fusco fasciatse, thorace multo breviores ; 

 thorax fusco subvittatus ; abdomen fusco bivittatum ; pedes 

 ferruginei, longi, graciles, vix pubescentes, femoribus bast coxisque 

 testaceis, tarsis fuscis ; alse cinereae, apud costam subluridae, 

 fascia albida, stigmate fusco. 



" Pale fawn colour, with cinereous tomentum. Antennae 

 setaceous, slightly verticillate pilose, with slender brown bands, 

 very much shorter than the thorax. Thorax with indistinct 

 brown stripes. Abdomen with two darker brown stripes. Legs 

 ferruginous, long, slender, hardly pubescent ; femora towards the 

 base and coxae* testaceous, tarsi brown. Wings grey, somewhat 

 lurid along the costa, with an incomplete whitish band by the 

 stigma, which is pale brown ; veins brown, tawny at the base and 

 along the costa. Halteres tawny with brown tips. 



" Length of the body 9 lines, of the wings 20 lines. East Indies." 

 (Walker.) 



Type in the British Museum ; too damaged to be of any use 

 for comparison. 



The name vicaria was preoccupied by Walker himself in 1848 

 for a South African species, but as the type (British Museum) is 

 in too bad condition for identification and no other specimen is 

 apparently known, I refrain from setting up a new name, as it 

 might be as well to let the species sink, since it would be 

 extremely difficult, if not impossible, to set up a new type from 

 the author's description. 



234. Tipula brunnicosta, sp. nov. 



3 $ . Head pale cinereous grey. Proboscis yellowish, palpi 

 brownish, both hairy. Antennae light yellow, base of each joint 

 of the flagellum, except the 1st, narrowly black and bearing a 



