new and little-known Tipulidte. 105 



roundisli, somewhat more convex below, apical joints not 

 much smaller than the basal ones; verticils about as long 

 as the joints. Thorax and alidomen uniformly shining black, 

 only the pleurse slightly grey-dusted and the ovipositor 

 reddish. Legs black, the femora and tibiae brownish except 

 at tips. ^^^ngs slightly greyish, unmarked except for the 

 darker grey stigma. Sc ending distinctly in costa; Scj near 

 tip of Scj ; r about its own length from tip of Ri, and at 

 about mid-length of Rj ; ^2+3 ^'ery short; Rs rather long 

 and nearly straight ; the three veins closing the upper basal 

 cell rather thick and about equal in length ; cell M^ absent ; 

 cross-vein m very oblique, longer than basal section of M3. 

 Cuja before middle of discal cell. Halteres light yellow. 



Length of hodv about 5 mm. : wing 6 mm. 



Formosa : Fnnkiko, 23. ii. 1917 {T. Shiraki), 1 ? . 



Among described Oriental species this can only be com- 

 pared with L. quartarius, Brun., which has a similar venation, 

 but is quite dili'erent in colour. 



TlFULII^M. 

 C T E N O P H O K I X I. 



Pselliophora laneipes, sp. n. (PI. X. fig. 14.) 



Head orange, with black hair on the vertex, brownish to 

 golden hair on the face and rostrum. Palpi with the three 

 basal segments brownish, black-haired ; terminal segment 

 yellowishj black at the base and tip. Anteunre with the 

 basal segment orange, with a dark brown stripe on the outer 

 side; remainder black, except for the tips of the flagellar 



joints, which are light brownish. Thorax bright oran 

 prEescutum with three distinct black stripes, the middle one 

 entire, the lateral ones continued across the scutum. 

 Scutellum with rather long and dense brownish-orange hair. 

 Abdomen orange ; a narrow black median stripe on tergites 

 2-4, interrupted with orange on the posterior margins of 

 the segments, and continuous with the narrow black lateral 

 posterior borders of these segments ; venter similar. 

 Hypopygium black. Ninth tergite with two rounded lobes, 

 each ])rovided with a long dense tuft of dark brown hair 

 (much longer than in P. scalator, Alex ). Ninth sternite 

 much as in P. scalator (deeply bilobed, each lobe with a 

 strong smooth spine on its inner side). Eighth sternite 

 produced into a cup-shaped process similar to that of 

 P. scalator, but shorter. Outer clasjers pointed, not square- 



