430 TIPULID^E. 



311. Teucholabis insignis, sp. nov. (PI. VIII, fig. 13.) 



c? . Head elongated ; the very wide froiis, the nasas and the 

 palpi, shining black, with a few scattered hairs ; eyes nearly 

 contiguous below. The 1st joint of the antennal scape is cylin- 

 drical, cup-shaped at tip ; 2nd subglobose ; 1st joint of the 

 apparently only ]2-jointed flagellum robuster than the rest, which 

 are oval, black, with some long hairs. Thorax: neck and whole 

 anterior part of thorax bright orange-yellow with some long black 

 hairs ; remainder of dorsum, the scutellum, nietanotum and sides, 

 wholly brilliant shining dark blue, with scattered soft black hairs; 

 a dark reddish streak below, between the posterior pairs of coxae. 

 Abdomen wholly very dark shining blackish blue, with soft whitish 

 pubescence. Genitalia coucolorous, pubescent. Leys wholly deep 

 black (except the orange-red fore coxae and trochanters), closely 

 but thickly pubescent. Wings brownish, with two subhyaline 

 patches occupying the greater part of the discal surface, divided 

 by an irregular cross-band, which begins round the marginal 

 cross-vein and extends posteriorly nearly to the hind border of the 

 wing. A 7 enation as in Osten Sacken's Monograph of the Xorth 

 American Tipulidae, pi. i, fig. 12. Halteres dark blackish brown. 



Lenc/tli 7 millim. 



Described from a unique male in the Indian Museum collection 

 taken by Dr. Annandale, 22. xi. 08, at Tenmalai, Travancore 

 State, South India. A very pronounced and handsome species. 



312. Teucholabis biannulata, sp. nov. 



S . Head : eyes very nearly contiguous ; frons, occiput and 

 head generally, dark brown ; neck brownish yellow, bare, shining. 

 Scape brownish yellow, the 2nd (yellowish) joint short; flagellum 

 dark brown, with some long hairs on upperside only. Proboscis 

 and palpi dark brown. Thorax dark brownish yellow, shining, 

 with two distinct dorso-central rows oP short black hairs ; sides 

 of dorsum, a median stripe, and two large spots occupying the 

 whole surface behind, the suture (except the intermediate pale 

 whitish depression), a darker brown; sides of thorax moderately 

 dark brown, shining. Scutellum very shining, blackish grey ; 

 nietanotum yellowish, with a faint median dark line. Abdomen 

 mainly dark brownish yellow, with traces of a thin dorsal black 

 line ; with thin black pubescence. Belly lighter yellowish, the 

 whole abdomen appearing liable to vary iu places. Genitalia 

 conspicuous, brownish yellow, considerably pubescent ; a dorsal 

 and a ventral short broad plate ; a large pair of claspers with 

 what seems like a thumb-like organ attached to each ; each clasper 

 also furnished at the tip with two large black hooks. Leys black, 

 microscopically pubescent ; base of femora (more broadly so in 

 fore pair) yellow, also a subapical moderately broad ring and an 

 apical narrow ring, yellow. Winys moderately dark grey : costal 

 cell yellow. Black marks placed as follows : one spreading over 



