334 TIPULID^E. 



236. Tipula ochripes, Brim. 



Tipula ochripes, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. vi, p. 260 (1911). 



<$ $ . Head yellowish, vertex a little brownish grey in the middle; 

 back of head similar. Proboscis blackish, robust and rather long ; 

 palpi blackish, with base and tips of first three joints more or less 

 pale yellow. Antennae rather short, blackish or very dark brown : 

 tip of the long 1st scapal joint and the whole of the very short 

 2nd joint, pale yellow ; base of 1st flagellar joint, which is long 

 and cylindrical, sometimes yellow also ; the remaining joints 

 setaceous, much narrower at the base and tip on the underside of 

 each joint ; very minutely pubescent and with a verticel of very 

 short hairs in the middle of each joint. Thorax : dorsum vandyke- 

 brown, tinged with ochraceous here and there around the edges ; 

 with three narrow stripes, which sometimes appear as a pair of 

 closely parallel lines, the stripe itself contained by them being 

 practically concolorous with the dorsum. Scutellum and 

 metanotum similar ; sides of thorax, including the prothorax, 

 yellewish ; the colour rather distinctly marked off from the 

 dorsum. Abdomen blackish brown, with microscopic pale yellow 

 hairs. Sides and belly dusted with yellowish grey. Legs : coxae 

 yellowish ; femora brownish yellow, tips broadly blackish ; tibiae 

 and tarsi to their tips rather bright yellowish, sometimes the tibiae 

 a trifle more brownish yellow. Wings pale grey, costal cell 

 brownish, brownish yellow or yellowish ; a very slight dark 

 brown suffusion over the juncture of the posterior cross-vein with 

 the 5th longitudinal vein ; stigma brownish, comparatively small ; 

 a pale streak obliterating the veins runs from in front of the 

 stigma to beyond the discal cell, which it cuts just before or at 

 the middle. Halteres pale, clubs darker. 



Length, tf 18 ; $ 20-22 millim., excluding ovipositor (2 millim.). 



Described from one type male from Kandy, 20. v. 10 (Gravely), 

 one other male from Peradeniya, Ceylon, a type female from 

 Kandy, 31.x. 09 (Green), and two other females from Kandy, 

 v. 1907 (Green} all these being in the Indian Museum. One 

 male in the "Vienna Museum from Ceylon. 



This species is near T. vicaria, Walk. The discrepancies appear 

 to be that in Walker's species the abdomen has two darker brown 

 stripes, the femora have no black rings at their tips, and the tarsi 

 are brown. T. vicaria is described from the "East Indies," a 

 term which Walker used to signify India. Walker's "incomplete 

 whitish band by the stigma " I presume to represent my " oblitera- 

 tive streak." 



237. Tipula flavescens, sp. uov. 



$ . Head rather bright yellow ; frous barely one-third the width 

 of the head ; back of head yellowish. Proboscis yellowish ; palpi 

 pale yellow, pubescent, Antennae yellowish, pubescent, narrowly 

 black at the base of each joint, where there is a verticel of hairs. 



