404 TIPULID.E. 



red hairs at their tips. Ovipositor yellowish. Legs yellowish, 

 paler or darker ; femora sometimes brown. Wings narrow, 

 long, clear, iridescent, immaculate, without stigma. Auxiliary 

 vein ending half-way between base of 2nd longitudinal and the 

 marginal cross-vein, which latter is placed at nearly two-thirds of 

 the length of the marginal cell ; the 2nd vein beginning some 

 distance before the middle of the wing ; the preef urea being less 

 than half as long as the remaining portion of the vein ; basal part 

 of 3rd vein oblique, twice as long as anterior cross-vein ; disca 

 cell more than twice as long as broad, upper and lower sides 

 nearly parallel, the cell not so long as the 2nd and 3rd posterior 

 cells ; posterior cross-vein almost exactly in the centre of the 

 discal cell ; seventh vein short ; all the veins running to the 

 distal margin of the wing parallel. Halteres dirty pale yellow, 

 clubs blackish. 



Length 6-7| millim. 



Described from two males and two females from Kurseong, 

 18-23. vi. 10 (Annandale}. 



Types in the Indian Museum. 



The position of the posterior cross-vein at the middle of the 

 discal cell will differentiate this species from all other Oriental 

 ones in the genus except L. nigra and L. longinervis, from each of 

 which it is easily recognised by the entirely clear wings. 



293. Limnobia niveipes, sp. nov. 



. Head wholly black ; antennae wholly black, with very short 

 pubescence. Thorax wholly dull black, with very few hairs. 

 Traces of a very narrow white line between prothorax and anterior 

 margin of dorsum. Scutellum, metanotum, and sides of thorax 

 wholly dull black. Abdomen wholly dull black, nearly bare 

 (possibly rubbed). Ovipositor black, small, the tip yellowish. 

 Legs black, except the tarsi, which (with the exception of the 

 metatarsal joint) are snow-white. Wings dark grey. Auxiliary 

 vein ending before half the distance between the origin of the 

 2nd longitudinal vein and the tip of the 1st vein ; venation as in 

 L. indica, except that the posterior cross-vein is placed a little 

 before the discal cell. Stigma oval, dark brown. Halteres 

 blackish. 



Length 6 millim. 



Described from one female taken by me at Darjiling, 28. v. 10, 

 on the hillside. 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



This species is easily distinguished from all other eastern species 

 by its snow-white tarsi. 



294. Limnobia nigra, sp. nov. 



c? $ . Head blackish, with black hairs behind ; eyes nearly 

 contiguous ; proboscis and palpi black ; antenna? somewhat robust, 



