372 TIPULID.E. 



Type c? and $ in the Amsterdam Museum, from Java. 

 If Thrypticomyia, Skuse, be a valid genus, which seems doubtful, 

 the present species will fall into it. 



260. Licranomyia absens, sp. nov. (PI. VII, fig. 2.) 



. Head grey ; frons moderately wide, the sides parallel, grey, 

 with a median irregular row of small black spots ; eyes contiguous 

 below. Proboscis yellow ; palpi blackish. Antennal scape blackish, 

 flagellum yellowish brown or brown. Thorax light grey, the 

 dorsum mainly occupied by the usual three contiguous stripes of 

 brownish grey, the median one attaining the anterior margin ; 

 two post-sutural large unicolorous spots, the post-sutural depres- 

 sion greyish ; sides of thorax yellowish, with greyish reflections 

 here and there. Scutellum and metauotum more yellowish grey, 

 dusted with light grey. Abdomen dark brown, with a little pale 

 pubescence ; margins of segments slightly paler. Belly similar ; 

 ovipositor reddish yellow. Legs yellowish ; tips of tarsi a little 

 blackish. Wings clear, highly iridescent. Auxiliary vein ending 

 just after the origin of the 2nd longitudinal vein, which begins 

 beyond the middle of the wing ; the praefurca much shorter than 

 the remaining portion ; marginal cross-vein at tip of 1st longi- 

 tudinal vein, much before the middle of the marginal cell ; base 

 of 3rd vein twice as long as anterior cross-vein. Discal cell open, 

 coalescing with 2nd posterior cell ; 3rd posterior cell a little more 

 than twice as long as wide ; posterior cross-vein just before, just 

 beyond, or in a Hue with the basal side of the discal cell ; stigma 

 pale blackish, oblong, just perceptible. 



Length 4| millim. 



Described from two females from Kurseong, 25. vi 10, type 

 (Annandale\ and Darjiling, 5. viii. 09 (Paiva). 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



The want of fixity in the position of the posterior cross-vein is 

 clearly shown in the two specimens of this species, in one of 

 which it is just (but distinctly) beyond the base of the absent 

 discal cell ; in the other it is before this base in one wing of the 

 specimen and exactly in a line with it in the other wing. 



261. Dicranomyia cuneiformis, Meij. 



Dicranomyia cuneiformis, Meijere, Tijd. Entom. liv, p. 23, tf (1911). 



c? $ . Head and antennae brown, palpi blackish brown. Thorax 

 very short, dark brown, moderately shining, yellowish behind ; 

 scutellum brown, shining ; sides brownish yellow. Abdomen very 

 narrow, blackish brown ; in female, over four times as long as 

 thorax. Grenitalia of male long and narrow ; of female, mode- 

 rately long, onion-shaped. Legs dark brown, femora brownish 

 yellow towards base ; metatarsus nearly as long as the tibia, 

 basal half dark brown, remainder of tarsi whitish. Wings very 

 narrow, of the same length as the abdomen (including ovipositor) ; 



