71CW T\\niVu]^ from iJc Mdhnj Peninsuln. ?t')\ 



Length of l)0(lv about 7 mm.; winj; 12 mm. 



Kedah : Keduii Peak, 3200 ft. {Dr. A. T. Stanton), 1 ? . 



Ill coloration M. nilidirustris must stronfrly resem'ole 

 Tipnla sinnlxim/oisis, (\q Meij., re(;ently dcsorihcd from 

 Simalur, but presumaljly de ATeijcrc's species bas the 

 venation of a Tipnhij though be ([o(i% not descril)e the wing 

 in detail. 



Group T I p u I, I N r. 



Tipula klossi, sp. n. 



? . Head dark brown, with a blackish m( dian line ; front 

 occu|)ying more than a quarter of the width of the head, 

 rather prominent above the antennae. Proboscis brownish, 

 shorter than the head ; nasus extremely short, a mere 

 rounded prominence; palpi dark brown. Antennce 13- 

 jointed, the 13tli joint less than half as long as the 12tli. 

 Scape liglit brownish. First flagellar joint cylindrical, light 

 brownish, with some short black hairs in the middle on the 

 underside, longer than tlie first scapal joint ; intermediate 

 flagellar joints light brown with a blackish base which is 

 slightly enlarged on the upper side ; last two or three joints 

 entirely dark brown ; verticillate hairs much longer on the 

 upper side of the joints than on the lower. Thorax dull, 

 brown, with four darker brown stripes, the lateral pair 

 shortened in front and extending back on to the scutum. 

 Postnotum more greyish in the middle. Abdomen rather 

 light brownish, the segments with dark brown bands apically. 

 Leys blackish, the femora lighter towards the base. JJ'iriffs 

 very slightly infuscated, the costal cell rather more so ; 

 stigma dark brown ; a narrow dark brown cloud over Cuja ; 

 a small whitish spot on each side of the stigma, and another 

 obliquely across cell 1st M2. Pubescence on the veins in 

 the apical part of the wing very noticeable. ^^enation : 

 Rs extremely short, much shorter than the stigma, and 

 equal in length to the first section of Mj^o- Stalk of cell 

 Ml nearly one-third as long as the cell. Cu, meeting M 

 exactly at the fork and fused with M^ for about half the 

 length of the cell 1st ^NIo. Cross-vein connecting Mj^j with 

 M3 extremely short, the cell 1st M2 being therefore almost 

 diamond-shaped. Mj, M3, and the descending portioM of 

 Cuj parallel and rather close together. Anal angle of wing 

 well-marked, the cell Ax, therefore, broadest in the njiddle. 

 Halteres light brownish, the club somewhat darker. 

 Length of body 13 mm.; wing 11 mm. 



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