526 TIPULID^E. 



376. Ephelia fascipennis, sp. nov. (PI. X, fig. 16.) 



d 1 . Head : vertex, frons, and back of head light ash-grey, with 

 scattered yellow hairs ; frons a little more than one-third of the 

 width of the head. Antennal scape brownish yellow, 1st joint 

 moderately long, 2nd nearly globular ; flagellurn pale yellow, the 

 basal half of each joint black, the 1st flagellar joint yellow ; all 

 the joints with verticillate hairs and close yellow pubescence. 

 Thorax considerably arched and elongate, produced forward into a 

 stout conical neck. Dorsum brownish grey, with some indistinct 

 darker marks and spots ; sides brownish yellow. Abdomen brownish 

 yellow ; sides with a blackish stripe, and posterior margins of 

 segments more or less black. G-enitalia consisting of a bi-jointed 

 pair of claspers, protected by a dorsal concolorous plate, the 1st 

 joint of the claspers moderately stout, the 2nd joint narrower. 

 Legs : coxa3 brownish yellow, with black marks ; femora yellowish, 

 with a broad light brown apical ring ; tibiae and tarsi yellowish, 

 tips of tarsi a little darker ; all the legs distinctly and shortly 

 hairy. Wings nearly clear, with some bright brown marks on the 

 costa and a number of pale grey spots scattered over the rest of 

 the surface. Auxiliary vein ending some distance beyond the 

 middle of the wing, the ] st longitudinal vein ending some distance 

 beyond that, the subcostal placed at very nearly the tip of the 

 auxiliary vein ; the 1st longitudinal vein very uneven in its course 

 towards its tip ; the 2nd A r ein begins at a right angle distinctly 

 before the middle of the wing, forking just at its middle, the 

 branches diverging, the upper one much shorter ; the 3rd vein 

 begins a little before the fork of the 2nd, at a right angle, the 

 basal section being about as long as the anterior cross-vein, which 

 is almost in a line with it ; all the veins in this part of the wing 

 practically parallel, except that the 1st posterior cell is narrower 

 at its tip, through the forking (at half its length) of the upper 

 branch of the 4th vein ; discal cell much wider at the tip than at 

 the base, the basal side rather short, jojning the anterior cross- 

 vein; veinlets of the upper branch of the 4th longitudinal vein 

 practically parallel, all the vein endings of the 4th vein approx- 

 imately equidistant ; posterior cross-vein placed just beyond the 

 base of the discal cell; the supplementary cross-vein in the 5th 

 posterior cell placed at its middle, some little distance beyond the 

 origin of the 2nd vein ; the 5th and 6th veins gently curved, the 

 7th gently bisinuate. The wing-markings may be described as 

 consisting principally of five brown spots on the costa ; the first 

 three squarish, the 1st nearly basal, the 3rd enclosing the base of 

 the 2nd vein ; the 4th and 5th are the two largest (the latter 

 apical) and have a central clear space in each, very narrow in the 

 4th, much larger in the 5th ; the first three of these brown costal 

 spots terminate posteriorly about the 4th longitudinal vein ; the 



