396 TIPULID.E. 



femora a little blackish. Wings pale yellowish grey. Auxiliary 

 vein ending mid-way between the base of the 2nd vein and the 

 tip of the 1st ; the 2nd beginning at the middle of the wing ; the 

 praefurca nearly as long as the rest of the vein, which is a little 

 sinuous and curved upwards at tip ; marginal cross-vein placed 

 distinctly beyond the middle of the marginal cell ; base of 3rd 

 vein two and a half times as long as anterior cross-vein; discal 

 cell much broader distally, a little longer than double its average 

 width, and a little longer than the 2nd aud 3rd posterior cells ; 

 posterior cross-vein in a line with the base of the discal cell, the 

 anterior cross-vein in the same straight line. The markings of 

 the wing are brown in colour, and are placed as follows : three 

 narrow streaks begin (anterior to the middle of the wing) on the 

 costa, and extend posteriorly nearly to the middle of the wing, the 

 first streak nearly basal ; a fourth narrow costal streak begins at 

 the tip of the auxiliary vein and extends to the base of the 3rd vein ; 

 the next costal streak (the widest of all) is over the marginal cross- 

 vein, and is clear cut, being suddenly reduced to half its width at 

 the 2nd longitudinal vein, beyond which it is continued, termi- 

 nating abruptly at the 3rd vein ; the two remaining costal marks 

 are a conical (reversed) and a triangular spot, both touching the 

 3rd vein; the anterior cross-vein, the inner side of the discal cell, 

 and the posterior cross-vein bear a small spot each, these spots 

 being practically contiguous : the distal side of the discal cell is 

 suffused with brown and the 1st posterior cell contains two 

 lighter spots, the 2nd posterior cell containing one ; the 2nd basal 

 cell has three small spots ; the tip of the 7th vein is suffused. 

 Halteres brownish yellow, clubs black. 



Length 5^ millim. 



Described from a single specimen taken by Mr. F. M. Hewlett 

 at Darjiling, 3-9. vi. 09. 



Type in the Pusa collection. 



Genus LIMNOBIA, My. 



Limnobia, Meigen, Syst. Besch. i, p. 116 (1818). 

 Limonia, Meigen, Illig. Magaz. ii, p. 262 (1803) (nom. sine sp.). 

 Numantia, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France (3), ii, p. 470 (1854). 

 Limnomyza^ Rondani, Prod. Ital. Dipt. i. p. 185 (1856). 



GENOTYPE : Tipula tripunctata, F. ; according to, but not 

 designated by, Coquillett (1910). 



Head much as in Dicranomyia. Proboscis and palpi rather 

 larger and stouter. Antennae of fourteen joints, which sometimes 

 appear as if fifteen in number, as the last joint often possesses a 

 cylindrical prolongation, sometimes slightly clavate at the tip, 

 which, even in living examples, looks like an additional joint. 

 The individual joints of the antennae are generally more elongate 

 than in Dicranomyia, especially towards the tip, and the verticels 



