AMALOPIXI. 507 



brownish yellow claspers, with small narrow horny appendages 

 towards the tips, and a narrow dorsal plate. Ovipositor of female 

 as in preceding species. Legs brownish yellow, darker towards 

 tips of tarsi. Wings : venation in accordance with the generic 

 description. Pale grey, iridescent ; an elongate blackish stigma 

 is indistinctly but obviously present over the tip of the 1st 

 longitudinal vein, ending rather sharply at the marginal cross- vein. 

 Halteres brownish. 



Length 4-5 millim. 



Described from two males and one female. The type male and 

 female, taken respectively at Simla, 10. v. 09, and Kurseong, 

 4. ix. 09, by Dr. Annandale ; an additional male from Simla, 

 12.V.09. 



Type male and female (also additional male) in the Indian 

 Museum. 



Section AMALOPINI. 

 Pediciinas, KerWsz, Catal. Dipt, ii (1892). 



Eyes pubescent ; frons generally with a more or less prominent 

 gibbosity, which is often much less conspicuous in dried specimens. 

 Antennae normally either 16- join ted, or 13-jointed ; in one non- 

 Oriental genus (Ula) the unusual number of 17 joints is found. 

 Wings with two submarginal cells, and four or five posterior cells ; 

 discal cell open or closed. Subcostal cross-vein ending at a 

 considerable distance anterior to the tip of the auxiliary vein and 

 also before the origin of the 2nd longitudinal vein.* Penultimate 

 posterior cell nearly always pointed at the base (except in Ula}. 

 Tibiae with spurs at the tip, often minute.t 



This section of the TIPULIDJE BUEVIPALPI forms a small compact 

 group distinguished by the pubescent eyes and the frontal 

 gibbosity. 



Osten Sacken suggested the division of this section into two 

 natural groups, but apart from the character of the difference in 

 number of the antennal joints, the dividing line between them is 



* Except in Trichocera, which is here removed to this Section from the 

 LIMNOPIIILINI, its affinities to that Section being, to my thinking, much less 

 than to the AJIALOPINI. In this genus the subcostal cross-vein occurs a little 

 way beyond the origin of the 2nd longitudinal vein, but before the middle of 

 the wing. 



t Personally I have often been unable to discern any spurs at all.^nd it 

 seems to me that they are more often completely absent than Osten Sacken 

 (who placed considerable reliance on this character as one of the primary 

 means of classification) suspected. At any rate, when they are so microscopic 

 that an ordinary observer with an ordinary microscope fails to perceive them, 

 they are very unsafe characters on which to separate sections or subfamilies. 



