402 TIPULID.E. 



Geuitalia of male consisting mainly o a very large pair of hairy 

 yellow fleshy bifid claspers, surmounted by a pair of small black- 

 tipped hooks ; a small palp-like organ emerges from below the 

 ultimate segment of the abdomen ; these organs are not enclosed 

 by any protecting plates or sheaths. In the female the ovipositor 

 consists of a rather larger upper conical piece, ending in two 

 comparatively small sheaths, and below this a pair of shorter 

 smaller organs, which also terminate in a pair of hard chitinous 

 sheaths ; the upper piece bears a pair of peculiarly curved bristles 

 directed backwards. Legs dark brown, basal part of femora pale, 

 and also broadly pale beyond the middle, leaving a moderately 

 wide black ring at tip. Wings nearly clear ; a brownish square 

 stigma at tip of 1st longitudinal vein ; base of praefurca very 

 slightly suffused ; veins black. Halteres with the stem pale, 

 considerably pubescent ; knob black, bare. 



Length 5 millim. 



Described from several specimens in the Indian Museum from 

 Calcutta (September to February), where it is not uncommon, 

 and Katihar, Bengal, 7-31. viii. 10. I have seen it from Madhupur, 

 Bengal, 13. x. 09 (Paiva), and it is in the Pusa collection from 

 Pusa, 18-20. ii. 08 (on moss) and ix. 07. 



Types in the Indian Museum. 



290. Limnobia trimaculata, sp. nov. (PI. VII, fig. 16.) 



<$ $ . Head entirely blackish, back of head dark grey ; antennal 

 scape black, flagellum pale yellow. Thorax: dorsum yellowish 

 white, with a broad brown median stripe from the anterior 

 margin, widening posteriorly until it reaches the suture, behind 

 which are two large oval brown spots which reach the scutellum ; 

 sides of thorax yellowish white. Scutellum and metanotum 

 brown, the former with a narrow pale median line. Abdomen 

 yellowish ; dorsum of each segment wholly dark brown, posterior 

 border of segments in female narrowly pale. Genitalia of male 

 pale yellow ; in the female the ovipositor is reddish yellow, with 

 two shining small black spots on the lower side. Legs pale 

 yellow ; femora and tibiae with brown tips ; tarsi brownish. 

 Wings nearly clear, veins brown ; three distinct, but not large, 

 round brown spots situated as follows : the 1st at the base of the 

 marginal cells, the 2nd on the origin of the prsefurca, the 

 3rd at the tip of the 1st longitudinal vein. Extreme tip of wing 

 pale brown, cross- veins a little infuscated, as is also the tip of the 

 7th vein ; a tendency to slight infuscation at the tips of some of 

 the other veins. Halteres pale yellow, knobs blackish brown. 



Length 6|-7| millim. 



Described from several examples in the Indian Museum taken 

 at Kurseong by Dr. Annandale, 3-5. vii. 08 and 18-29. vi. 09, when 

 he found it common amongst ferns and low herbage, often entering 

 houses at night, attracted by a light. 



