442 TIPULID^E. 



317. Rhypholophus pulcher, sp. nov. (PI. VIII, fig. 16.) 



2 . Head flattened, elongate ; eyes very emarginate ; vertex, 

 back of head and frons (the latter forming one-third the 

 width of the head) blackish grey, with long ragged brownish 

 yellow hairs. Proboscis moderately long, brownish yellow ; 

 palpi dark brown, very pubescent. Antennae brownish yellow, 

 pubescent ; scape normal ; flagellum of fourteen oval joints, 

 the base of each joint black. Thorax: neck short, brownish 

 yellow. Dorsum of thorax rather dark brown, with three nearly 

 contiguous brown stripes, barely darker than the ground-colour ; 

 a narrow pale lemon-yellow collare below the edge of the dorsum. 

 Above the neck and below the collare, rather copious long brownish 

 yellow hairs ; two well-separated dorso-central longitudinal bands 

 of short yellow hairs, amongst which some long bristly yellow- 

 hairs stand out distinctly ; these two rows begin on the anterior 

 margin and converge at the suture, continuing over it. to the 

 posterior margin ; and from the suture a branch row on each 

 side, of both long and short hairs intermixed, runs to each posterior 

 corner of the dorsum. Scutellum broad, hrown, metanoturn dark 

 brown, both with a few short yellow hairs. Abdomen dark brown, 

 belly similar, both sides with yellow hairs. Ovipositor con- 

 spicuous, bright brownish yellow, basal portion large and shining, 

 pubescent ; the lower pair of valves shorter, both pairs very 

 shining brownish yellow. Legs brownish yellow, trochanters 

 nearly as long as the coxse ; the femora become brown on the 

 apical half and bear two pale rings, one apical, the other sub- 

 apical ; tips of tibiae and the tarsi darker ; legs pubescent. 

 Wings : the auxiliary vein ending about opposite the fork of the 

 2nd longitudinal vein, the 1st vein ending some way beyond this 

 point ; the 2nd vein beginning at about one-third of the wing, 

 forking before half its length, the branches nearly parallel 

 distinctly curved upwards at their tips, the marginal cross- 

 vein placed exactly at the fork ; the 3rd vein originating a little 

 before the fork of the 2nd, its basal part moderately long, longer 

 than the anterior cross-vein, the remaining portion running 

 straight to the wing-tip ; upper branch of 4th longitudinal vein 

 parallel to the 3rd until the tip when it suddenly bends down- 

 wards, forked at half its length, the veiulet forming a sharp 

 rectangle, thence being parallel to the upper branch ; 1st 

 posterior cell nearly as long as 2nd submarginal cell ; lower 

 branch of 4th vein originating just before anterior cross-vein, 

 emerging at an angle from the stem, thence running straight to 

 the hind margin of the wing ; posterior cross-vein slightly sinuate, 

 a little before the fork of the 4th vein ; 5th and 6th veins gently 

 curved, 7th distinctly bisinuate.* Ground-colour of wing very pale 

 grey, the whole membrane as well as the veins thickly pubescent 

 with short black and yellow hairs intermixed more or less in 



* Eesembling that of Symplccta, except that the tip is not so abruptly 

 curved into the hind margin. 



