564 APPEXDIX. 



cu. 1 and cu. 2 [=5th posterior cell] tinged with brown ; on 

 the pterostigraa [stigma] an elongate oval, sharply defined, clear 

 brown spot ; veins yellowish brown. The veinlet dividing the 4th 

 and 5th posterior cells infuscated, together with the discal cell to 

 a somewhat greater length than in G. dohrnianus. ' Membrane bare, 

 with only a trace of reddish or greyish lustre. 



" Length of body 30| mm., of wing 37 mm., of fore femur 21 mm., 

 of fore tibia 23 mm., of fore tarsus about 34 mm., of hind femur 

 24| mm., of hind tibia 24| mm., of hind tarsus 37g mm. 



" SIKKIM : Darjeeling, one $ (liolle)." (Enderlein.) 



Type in the Stettin Zoological Museum. 



Dolichopeza postica, sp. nov. 



d 1 $ . Head dark brown to blackish, more or less yellowish 

 above and below the autennse, and sometimes the lower part of 

 tlie head yellowish also. Proboscis, palpi, and antenna? blackish 

 brown, the latter normal, of thirteen joints, the last one very 

 minute and not always obvious. Thorax : dorsum deep black, 

 with three shining dark brown stripes of the usual Tipulid pattern, 

 nearly contiguous ; the median one occupying the whole anterior 

 margin, barely narrowing at the suture ; the outer, much shorter 

 stripes also reach the suture. These stripes are in some specimens 

 nearly black, in others rich shining dark brown. Behind the 

 suture the dorsum is concolorous brown, with the sutural depres- 

 sions blackish; the scutellum and metanotum are alsoconcolorons; 

 sides of thorax blackish brown. Abdomen blackish, minutely 

 pubescent above ; belly similar. Genitalia large, dark brown, 

 pubescent ; a pair of claspers with a very large basal joint and a 

 slender finger-like second joint ; there are also two pairs of slender 

 inner hairy yellowish organs. Ovipositor of female normal, smali, 

 brownish yellow. Legs wholly moderately dark brown, micro- 

 scopically pubescent ; tips of femora and tibia? blackish. Whigs 

 dark grey ; stigma distinct, oval, blackish brown. The hinder 

 branch of the upper branch of the 4th longitudinal vein is forked ; 

 the 3rd posterior cell about two and a half times as long as its 

 petiole; posterior cross-vein in a line with origin of 2nd vein. 

 Halteres black. 



Length 5-7 millim. 



Described from four males and two females, including the type 

 male and female in cop., from Ghumti, Darjiling district, 6000 ft., 

 vii.1911 (F. H. Gravely). 



Types in the Indian Museum. 



The peculiarity of this species is that instead of the anterior 

 veinlet, it is the hinder veinlet of the anterior branch of the 4th 

 vein which is forked. This differentiates it from the other 

 Oriental species, D. orientalis, obscura, and infmcata ; also from 

 .D. sylvicola, Curt., of Europe, and at least D. longifurca, Skuse, 

 and varipes, Skuse, from Australia. As, however, the rest of the 

 venation agrees, and the antenna? are peculiarly typical of Doli- 

 cJwpeza, it is impossible to separate it generically. 



