504 TIPULID^. 



tip of each. Thorax considerably gibbous, uniformly pale yellow, 

 quite bare. Scutelluin, metanotum, and sides of thorax con- 

 colorous. Abdomen brownish yellow, with a few pale hairs at the 

 sides ; segments in the male towards the tip of the abdomen, both 

 above and on belly, with more or less distinct blackish irregular 

 marks. Grenitalia "of male rather longer than usual, especially the 

 second joint, which is nearly as long as the first, the latter being 

 less robust than usual, the second equally fleshy, subcylindrical, 

 pointed, both bearing numerous soft hairs ; some further append- 

 ages are visible below the claspers, also a large ventral V-shaped 

 dark brown plate ; the upper plate is also dark coloured, narrow. 

 The female has a pair of moderately long lateral valves, blackish 

 at the tip ; below these, a pair of pale yellow, soft, hairy, short 

 conical appendages, Avith apparently a pair of small claspers. 

 Legs uniformly very pale yellow. Wings : venation in accordance 

 with the generic description ; very pale yellowish, unmarked, 

 veins yellow ; halteres yellowish, knobs a little dusky. 



Length 2| millim. 



Described from a single specimen of each sex taken by me at 

 Darjiling, 28 and 29. v. 10. 



Types in the Indian Museum. 



361. Paracladura elegans, Brun. 



Paradadura elegans, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. vi, p. 288 (1911). 



.9 . Head rather bright yellow ; frons fully one-third the width 

 of the head ; face above antennae gibbous ; on the vertex a blackish 

 streak joining the upper angle of the eyes. Proboscis yellowish ; 

 palpi blackish, pubescent, basal half of 1st joint yellowish. Scapal 

 joints of antennae very short, pale yellowish, with a few hairs ; 

 flagellum blackish brown, closely and shortly pubescent. Thorax 

 almost wholly brownish yellow ; a trace of a dusky median stripe. 

 Scutellum, metanotum, and sides of thorax concolorous. Abdomen 

 brown, hind margin of the distinctly emarginated segments very 

 pale yellow, with pale hairs at the sides ; belly similar. Ovi- 

 positor of moderate size, resembling that of P. gracilis. Legs pale 

 brownish yellow. Wings : venation in accordance with the generic 

 description, the 7th longitudinal vein being only one-third as long 

 as the 6th. Colour pale yellow, veins yellow, apical part of wing 

 with slight pubescence. A narrow blackish infuscation runs from 

 the costa, beginning just beyond the tip of the auxiliary vein and 

 passing over the marginal vein, the fork of the 2nd, the base of 

 the 3rd, and the anterior cross-vein ; the infuscation, here shortly 

 interrupted, is resumed on the posterior cross-vein and along the 

 last section of the 5th longitudinal vein to the wing-margin. 

 Halteres yellowish, clubs dusky. 



Length 2-3 millim. 



