neio or Uttle-known Tipuliilse. 553 



steruites more extensively pale. Male hypopygium with the 

 l)leurites broad-based, narrowed apieally ; a single pleural 

 appendage that is longer than the pleurite, appearing as a 

 pale broad base that narrows into a long, slender, blaek rod 

 that is bent proximad. On the inner face of each pleurite 

 is a small blunt lobe set with al)undant setae. 



Hab. Fiji. 



Holotype, S , Mountain, Lautoka, 11. 4. 1920 {H. Green- 

 wood) . 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



Limnobia (?) dactyloJabis is an aberrant member of the 

 genus, and might well be considered as representing a 

 distinct subgeneric group. 



Limnobia (?) teucliolubina , sp. n. 



Head yellow; antennte obscure yellow, four intermediate 

 flagellar segments dark brown ; mesonotal prrescutum with 

 three confluent obscure orange-yellow stripes ; pleura dark 

 brown; legs yellow, femora narrouly tipped with white and 

 with a broad brown subterminal ring ; wings subhyaline, 

 sparsely spotted with brown, this including a series of spots 

 along the margin at the ends of the longitudinal veins ; ^c 

 long, 8c2 at the tip of -Scp 



Female. — Length 3'8 mm. ; wing 4'3 mm. 



Rostrum a little pronounced, about two-thirds the 

 remainder of the head ; rostrum and palpi black. Antennae 

 apparently with fourteen segments ; basal flagellar segments 

 obscure yellow, terminal two or three segments yellow, the 

 foTir intermediate segments before this yellovv apex con- 

 spicuously dark brown. Head bright yellow, the centre of 

 the vertex shrunken, apparently slightly darker in colour. 



Pronotum pale yellow. Mesonotal prsescutum with three 

 confluent obscure orange-yellow stripes, narrowly margined 

 laterally with silvery ; humeral region and lateral margins 

 obscuie yellow ; scutum obscure testaceous, the centres of 

 the lobes brown; scutellum obscure yellowish testaceous; 

 j)ostnotum pale with two dark sj)ots at the posterior margin. 

 Pleura dark brown. Halteres brown, the knol)s broken. Legs 

 with the coxae dark brown, the tips conspicuously whitened; 

 trochanters white ; femora yellow, the tips rather narrowly 

 but consi)icuously white ; a broad dark brown subterminal 

 ring, about four times as broad as the pale apex ; tibiae and 

 tarsi yellow, the terminal tarsal segments darkened : tarsal 

 claws long, simple ; empodia distinct. Wings subhyaline, 



