370 TIPULID.'E. 



deep black stripe along the middle of the whole length of the 

 side, and below this a thin dark reddish brown line across the 

 mesosternum and all the coxae. Abdomen brown or reddish brown, 

 with a little short pale pubescence. Belly similar. Genitalia 

 of male yellowish brown, consisting of a dorsal plate, concolorous 

 with the dorsum of the abdomen, a lower projecting flat narrow 

 piece, a pair of large moderately pubescent claspers, and one or 

 two inner pairs of organs not easily perceptible. Ovipositor of 

 female brownish yellow, small, with a few golden yello\v hairs. 

 Leys uniformly yellow, with a broad black apical ring on all the 

 femora and with the tips of the tibiae black ; tarsi with the apical 

 half of the anterior pairs and the whole of the hind pair black. 

 Wings pale grey, with numerous faint, grey, minute spots and 

 some darker spots. Auxiliary vein ending at about one-third of 

 the distance between the origin of the 2nd vein and the tip of the 

 1st; the 2nd longitudinal vein originating at the middle of the 

 wing, the prasfurca distinctly less than half the length of the vein ; 

 basal part of 3rd vein elbowed almost immediately, nearly as long 

 as the prasfurca, and four times as long as the 2nd and 3rd 

 posterior cells ; anterior cross-vein at upper corner of discal cell ; 

 posterior cross-vein a little before the discal cell. The whole 

 surface of the wing is mottled with very small pale grey spots, 

 in addition to which there are some darker brown marks and 

 suffusions as follows: Over origin of 2nd vein and tip of 

 auxiliary vein ; tip of 1st vein and the marginal cross-vein, which 

 latter is situated near the tip of the former ; base of 3rd vein, 

 this being the largest mark, though actually of only moderate 

 size. A very slight suffusion occurs at the tip of the 2nd vein ; 

 over both cross-veins ; on upper part of outer side of discal cell, 

 and at tip of 7th vein. Halteres yellow. 



Length, tf 4, $> 6 millim. 



Described from a type male and female from Kurseong, 5. ix. 09 

 (Annandale), and other specimens from Bangali, Bengal, 14. x. 10 

 (Annandale), Katihar, Bengal, 7-31. viii. 10 (Paiva) a specimen 

 from Darjiling, 8. viii. 09 (Paiva), of uncertain sex, the abdomen 

 being missing all these being in the Indian Museum. Also 

 from some in the Pusa collection from Darjiling, 3-9. vi.09 

 (Howlett), and from Pusa. 



258. Dicranomyia demarcata, sp. nov. 



$ . Head dark grey ; antennae and palpi blackish. Thorax : 

 dorsum very dark brown, the colour produced forwards in the 

 centre as far as the anterior margin ; two very narrow light grey 

 lines, giving the dorsum, in front of the suture, the appearance 

 of having three subcontiguous dark stripes of the usual pattern ; 

 the depressions behind the suture with some greyish reflections. 

 Sides of thorax moderately light grey, the colour sharply delineated 

 from the dark dorsum ; pleurae and lower part of the thorax 

 blackish ; scutellum and metanotum brown or brownish yellow. 



