49G TIPULID^. 



margins of segments narrowly pale yellowish ; belly similar. 

 Ovipositor brownish yellow, enlarged at the base, the lower pair 

 of valves much shorter than the upper ones, straight, and set a 

 little further back. Legs : coxae and trochanters both somewhat 

 small ; legs comparatively robust, yellow, with rather long close 

 pubescence ; the femora a little incrassated at the tip, and bearing 

 a subapical blackish not very well-defined ring ; tips of tibiee and 

 tarsal joints narrowly blackish. Wings nearly clear, very iri- 

 descent, with a faint yellowish appearance caused by the yellow 

 veins ; the " cross-veins " rather black. Auxiliary vein lying close 

 to the 1st longitudinal A r ein, ending at about the middle of the 

 wing, the 1st longitudinal ending a little beyond ; the 2nd longi- 

 tudinal vein beginning at one-third of the wing, and forking at 

 about half its length, just below the tip of the 1st vein, with the 

 marginal cross-vein just before the tip of the latter ; the 3rd 

 longitudinal vein originating a little before the fork of the 2nd, 

 at a right angle, thence forming nearly another right angle before 

 proceeding almost straight to the border, parallel with the veins in 

 front of and behind it; basal section of 3rd vein fairly long, 

 nearly in a line with the anterior cross-vein, which is of about the 

 same length ; the 4th vein forking close to the anterior cross- 

 vein, the upper branch forking at about its middle, the branches 

 parallel ; the lower branch of the 4th vein simple, parallel with 

 the 5th ; posterior cross-vein just beyond fork of 4th vein ; 3rd 

 posterior cell pointed at base ; 6th and 7th reins slightly sinuous. 

 A small indistinct stigma over the tip of the 1st vein. 



Length 7% millim. to tip of ovipositor. 



Described from a single female in the Indian Museum from 

 Kurseong, 7. ix. 09 (Z). F. Lynch}. 



Genus CONOSIA, Wulp. 

 Conosia, Wulp, Tijd. Entom. xxiii, p. 159, pi. x, figs. 5-7 (1880). 



GENOTYPE, Limnobia irrorata, Wied. ; by original designation. 



Head relatively very small, very flat and broad. Occiput 

 greatly produced backward in an obtuse form, the vertical hump 

 continued backward also, well defined, to the hinder limit of the 

 head, the occiput being practically in a plane with the vertex. 

 Eyes oval, contiguous below for a considerable distance, widely 

 separated above in both sexes by a broad frons which is longi- 

 tudinally conspicuously humped. Antennae barely longer than 

 the head ; the 1st scapal joint long, thick, cylindrical, the 2nd 

 broader and shorter, both robust ; flagellum of twelve joints, with 

 the 1st joint stout at the base, the remainder very filiform, 

 pubescent. Proboscis short ; palpi short, four-jointed. Thorax : 

 anterior part of dorsum conspicuously produced forward over the 

 prothorax and head in a conical obtuse form ; transverse suture 

 rather less distinct than usual. Scutellum small, metanotum well 

 developed. Abdomen long, cylindrical, four times as long as the 



