336 TIPTJLIDjE. 



be darker or rather lighter, broadly blackish at tips ; tibiae and 

 tarsi black. Wings very pale yellowish grey, costal cell yellowish, 

 stigma brown, or the stigmatic region brown, merged proxirnally 

 in the yellowish costal cell, the basal half of the marginal cell of 

 the same colour as the rest of the wing. Discal cell pentagonal, 

 rather small, the three upper sides forming a rectangle, the two 

 lower sides forming a wide ^pen " y " : pedicle of upper branch 

 of 4th longitudinal vein one-fourth as long as the veinlets. 

 Halteres blackish. 



Length about 15 millim., without ovipositor (1| millim.). 



Described from one female from Kaudy, v. J910 (E. E. Green), 

 and another female from Peradeniya ; also from a cotype in the 

 Vienna Museum from Peradeniya, 25. xii. 01 (Dr. Uzel). 



Type in Indian Museum ; cotype in Vienna Museum. 



239. Tipula munda, sp. nov. 



cJ 5 . Head : frons one-fourth to one-fifth of the head, mouse- 

 grey or dark grey ; back of head dark grey, with minute black 

 hairs on the region behind the eyes. Antennae rather long, 

 reaching back to about the suture ; yellow, with the base of each 

 joint of the flagellum narrowly black, and the usual one or two 

 basal hairs on each side ; scape moderately pubescent. Nasus, 

 proboscis, and palpi brownish yellow, pubescent Thorax, except 

 the dorsum, pale yellow, with yellowish white reflections here and 

 there, on the pleurse, scutellum, and metanotum ; dorsum pale 

 yellowish grev? with a pale greenish tinge when seen from 

 behind ; the usual three central stripes, which are pale brown, 

 the middle one (narrowly divided) reaching anterior margin ; the 

 usual two spots on each side behind the suture, the anterior one 

 smaller and rounder, the hinder one larger and more oval. Most 

 of these dorsal markings are almost invisible when A r iewed from 

 in front. Abdomen yellow ; 1st segment whitish on dorsum, with 

 an elongated brown mark in the middle and a smaller one on each 

 side. On the next five segments, a dark brown median line, with 

 ill-defined edges, slightly more distinct on the posterior margins 

 of segments, and carried upwards along the side of each segment, 

 nearly to the fore border, thus giving the appearance of a lateral 

 stripe : the absolute edges of the segments, however, distinctly 

 whitish. Remaining segments black, except that these also have 

 whitish edges to the sides like the anterior ones. The whole 

 abdomen lightly covered with pale yellow hairs. Genital organs 

 very complex. An upper curved protecting blackish plate, two 

 triangular side-plates, and a sort of ventral pale yellow shield, 

 bent inwards perpendicularly, with rather long yellow hairs; 

 these various pieces enclosing two or three (or more) pairs of 

 black, reddish, and pubescent organs, which are not sufficiently 

 extended to describe, and surmounted by a small elongated 

 reddish yellow process, bearing two short, black-tipped, palp-like 

 prolongations ; this process being apparently attached to the hind 



