516 TIPULIDJE. 



blackish ventral plate. Legs : coxae pale yellow, fore pair black, 

 slightly thickened towards tip ; posterior femora brownish 

 yellow ; tibiae and tarsi brownish yellow with blackish tips. 

 Wings clear, very iridescent ; venation normal, discal cell closed, 

 veins yellow ; stigma represented by only a very slight brownish 

 yellow darkening. Halteres rather long-stemmed, yellowish and 

 distinctly pubescent throughout. 



Length 5-5| millim. 



Described from two males taken by me, 1. x. 08, at Darjiling. 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



369. Amalopis elegans, sp. nov. (PI. X, fig. 11.) 



c? $ . Head : antenna and palpi yellowish, with barely a tinge 

 of brown ; occiput with a few short golden hairs ; eyes widely 

 separated. Thorax pale yellowish, with white dusting; three 

 dorsal pale brown stripes, the median one double, not quite 

 attaining the anterior margin and terminating indistinctly before 

 the sutui'e ; outer ones shorter ; mesonotum behind suture 

 slightly tinged with brownish ; sides of thorax dirty yellowish, 

 pleurse a little dark. Scutelluui pale whitish yellow ; metanotum 

 rather elongate, a little darkened. In the female the thoracic 

 stripes are less distinct. Abdomen of male darker, of female 

 lighter, brown, in both sexes with distinct yellow pubescence at 

 the sides ; belly concolorous. Grenitalia of both sexes brownish 

 yellow, moderate in size, apparently normal. Legs very pale 

 yellow, extreme tips of all the joints a little blackish ; femora 

 with a little pubescence on the underside. Wings very pale 

 grey. Venation normal, but the posterior cross-vein placed at 

 the basal corner of the discal cell, the latter being four-sided and 

 kite-shaped ; all the veins, except on the basal half of the wing, 

 very narrowly infuscated, just sufficient to be distinctly per- 

 ceptible ; at the praefurca, the cross-veins, tip of the auxiliary 

 and of the upper branch of the 2nd longitudinal vein, the 

 darkening is slightly more noticeable; stigma, limited by the 

 tip of the auxiliary vein and the marginal vein, pale brownish 

 yellow, the tip of the marginal cell being slightly more hyaline 

 than the rest of the wing. Halteres blackish. 



Length 3|-4 millim. 



Described from two males and a female all taken at Kurseong 

 by Dr. Annandale, the type male on 28. vi. 10, the type female 

 20. vi. 10, the other male'lS. vi.10. 



Types in the Indian Museum. 



